James Denton Desperate Housewives

James Denton has made all of America wish for faulty pipes due to his role as the world`s sexiest plumber, Mike Delfino, on ABC`s smash hit, Desperate Housewives. Along with the rest of the cast, Denton was honored with the 2006 and 2005 SAG Award for Best Ensemble in a Comedy. He has just completed filming the feature film Wanted: Undead or Alive with Saturday Night Live alum Chris Kattan. The upcoming comedy features Denton and Kattan as Zombie-hunting cowboys in the Wild, Wild West.

A native of Nashville, Denton has been one of Hollywood`s busiest actors since he hit town with a training background that has launched many performers into stardom -- a solid body of respected work in the Chicago theatre.

Originally attending college on a basketball scholarship, Denton wasn`t bitten by the acting bug until he was 20. He landed the role of George Gibbs in a Nashville production of Our Town, got fine reviews, but thought there was a more solid career in selling advertising. He did that in Tennessee and then in North Carolina for four years, before taking off for Chicago to risk everything to become a professional actor.

He was soon accepted as one of the town`s brightest and busiest actors. After earning a key casting when the Untouchables series came to town to film, Denton was drawn to Los Angeles, where his strong theatre reputation had preceded him, and he was quickly locked in with choice turns in film, on TV and on stage.

He started building his big screen profile with performances in such films as Primary Colors, Face/Off and That Old Feeling, but soon off-beat roles in adventurous TV series were claiming his time. In 1997 he landed the role of the eerily sociopathic Mr. Lyle on NBC`s hit drama show, The Pretender. The NBC series` multi-year run was followed by The Pretender television films, Pretender 2001 and Pretender: The Island of the Haunted.

In 2001 Denton was cast by ABC to star opposite Kim Delaney in Steven Bochco`s Philly series, which was critically acclaimed but short-lived. But his growing reputation soon led to a new series casting him as a top player in this nation`s homeland security community, Special Agent Jon Kilmer on Threat Matrix