Desperate Housewives

Diane Farr has nabbed a role on Desperate Housewives.

The former Rescue Me and Numb3rs star will guest star in a May sweeps episode. Expect the installment to flash back to Wisteria Lane in 2994 and feature the return of Brenda Strong as Mary Alice.

Farr will portray a woman “whose life has taken a bad turn since her husband left her 16 years earlier,” said an on-set source. “She has become a hard-drinking, abusive woman.”