Mary Alice Young (formerly Angela Forrest) is a fictitious character from the ABC television series Desperate Housewives.
The character was developed by television producer and screenwriter Marc Cherry and is played by Brenda Strong, who also serves as the series’ narrator from beyond the grave; the character’s suicide in the pilot episode acted as the series’ impetus.
Mary Alice’s narration is crucial to the story of Wisteria Lane, as the series revolves around her disclosing the secrets of her friends and neighbours.
Her narrative style is similar to Edgar Lee Masters’ Spoon River Anthology (1915).
Mary Alice is regarded as the most mysterious of the housewives, with only fragments of her story previously known.
She was the last person any of them expected to see commit suicide: a kind, adoring wife and mother who was generous to her family and neighbours.
Mary Alice sees things in death that she would not have seen while alive: her friends’ vulnerabilities, lies, and secrets. She loves them more because of their flaws, pitying them for the ways they manipulate and harm people they care about the most.
Despite her death since the pilot episode, Mary Alice continued to have a prominent plot in the first and second seasons of the show, with the tale being headed by her husband Paul Young (Mark Moses) and son Zach (Cody Kasch).
Following that, Strong continued to appear as Mary Alice in flashbacks, nightmares, and as a ghost to other characters while narrating nearly every episode of the series.
Strong received praise for her portrayal and narration of the character, with several critics calling her voice one of the most identifiable on television at the end of the series.
She got two Screen Actors Guild Awards as a cast member of Desperate Housewives and was nominated for two Primetime Emmy Awards for Outstanding Voice-Over Performance for her narration as Mary Alice.
Who was blackmailing Mary Alice on Desperate Housewives?
Martha Huber was the rude and intrusive neighbour of Wisteria Lane, as well as the sister of Felicia Tilman, who began blackmailing Mary Alice.
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