This Desperate Housewives Star Almost Played Carrie Bradshaw In Sex And The City

While she turned down an iconic role, she did find herself playing a part in another hit TV show. Delany was stunning as Katherine Mayfair, who will forever be the desperate housewife who adopted a girl to pass off as her own daughter after her daughter's accidental death (via YouTube). Before she played Katherine, however, Delany was offered the starring role of Bree Van De Kamp.

"Marc had offered me the role of Bree, but I had just done 'Pasadena' and I thought the role was too similar to that and I don't really like to repeat myself. I've never ever been in this for the money. I just like to do what challenges me," she told the L.A. Times.

Katherine Mayfair does go on to become Bree's rival in the realm of housekeeping, but Delany also told VH1 that she saw the two on a different story arc, "I really thought that Bree and Katherine should be together. I really did. I felt like they were two sides of the same coin and there was a lot of shipping going on about those two and I think it would of worked. I think it would of been one of those relationships with women in their older years going 'Oh it was you all along!' Why not?"

While Delany didn't take these infamous roles, she did avoid being typecast, becoming a neurosurgeon on "Body of Proof" (via Deadline), and a Colonel in "The Code" (via Deadline).