Exclusive: Dallas, Desperate Housewives' Brenda Strong Heads to Scandal

Another ABC vet is coming to Scandal!

Desperate Housewives alum Brenda Strong has landed guest-starring role on the Shonda Rhimes' political fixer drama, TVGuide.com has learned exclusively.

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Strong, best known for being the voice of Wisteria Lane and for her recent turn on the Dallas reboot, will play Joan Reston, the wife of a governor.

The Emmy nominee, whose credits also include Everwood, 7th Heaven and Rizzoli & Isles, is slated to appear in at least one episode of the second season, which debuts Thursday, Sept. 27 at 10/9c on ABC.

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