Stephanie Hagen

Like several other television producers, Stephanie Hagen began her career as an actress, appearing on the Michael Landon show "Highway to Heaven" in 1984 and the cop drama "Cagney & Lacey" in 1985. The following year, Hagen joined the crew of the comedy series "ALF," working as a post-production coordinator for a while, and then an associate producer from 1988 to 1989; she also appeared as an actress on the show for two episodes, but since then has largely left acting behind. Throughout the 1990s, Hagen produced a series of television movies, including "Swing Vote" with Andy Garcia in 1999 and a new adaptation of William Inge's play "Picnic" in 2000. That tale of frustrated female lust was a good dry-run for Hagen's tenure as producer and then executive producer on the hit series "Desperate Housewives." Hagen has worked on 115 episodes of that long-running show, which starred Teri Hatcher, Felicity Huffman, Marcia Cross, and Eva Longoria Parker.