'Desperate Housewives': What's Next for the Cast?

Brenda Strong, who played Mary Alice Young and acted as the narrator for the show, will bring her well-known voice -- and face! -- to "Dallas," the revamped soap that will debut on TNT on June 13. She'll play Ann Ewing, the wife of Bobby (Patrick Duffy). "I couldn't have designed it better had I asked for it," Smart, 52, told Access Hollywood about ending one show and beginning another. "I feel so blessed to be going from 'Desperate Housewives,' ... more 

Brenda Strong, who played Mary Alice Young and acted as the narrator for the show, will bring her well-known voice -- and face! -- to "Dallas," the revamped soap that will debut on TNT on June 13. She'll play Ann Ewing, the wife of Bobby (Patrick Duffy). "I couldn't have designed it better had I asked for it," Smart, 52, told Access Hollywood about ending one show and beginning another. "I feel so blessed to be going from 'Desperate Housewives,' which is an iconic television series, to another iconic television series." Funnily enough, the actress -- who has a teenage son, Zakery -- was a guest star on the series when it first aired from 1978 to 1991. less