An All-American-looking Tennessee native who played basketball in high school and college, actor Jamie Denton’s breakout role was as the mysterious hunky carpenter Mike Delfino on the hit “Desperate Housewives” (ABC, 2004 - ); the most mysterious about Denton himself is his oft-shifting billing: sometimes he appears as “James”, other times as “Jamie”.

Denton got serious about acting as a student at the University of Tennessee Knoxville, where he earned a degree in advertising. The son of a community theater actor, Denton started with the stage. He worked as a radio ad salesman in Nashville by