Felicity Huffman is coming back to cinemas for the first time since a fraud scandal saw her doing time behind bars.

The US actress, 57, pleaded guilty last year to conspiracy to commit mail fraud and honest services fraud charges after she paid 15 grand for her daughter's exam scores to be upped.

Now she's back, having served her two week sentence, in a role as a cancer sufferer in Tammy's Always Dying.

The trailer sees her character, Tammy MacDonald, living it large and making scathing comments, until the music changes cords and the doctor delivers the fatal diagnosis.

The film also stars Anastasia Phillips as Tammy's daughter, who's forced to become a carer to her mum following the news.

Felicity has returned to the silver screen

"Taking care of me," Tammy tells daughter Catherine, "Is the only thing you've ever been good at."

Why won't you just die?" Catherine comes back.

Another scene sees her passed out on the floor, Catherine approaching her and thinking she'd died.

The film sees her play foul-tempered cancer patient Tammy
Tammy receives a terminal diagnosis

"I thought..." she mumbles.

"That I was dead?" demands Tammy, "Don't look so excited.

After Felicity pleaded guilty, her community service time began in November last year - the sentence put it at 250 hours in total.

As well as time in jail and the community service, she was ordered to pay a fine of $30,000 and undergo a year of supervised release.

The film co-stars Anastasia Phillips as Tammy's daughter-turned-carer Catherine
Tammy commends Catherine's care-giving

She was held at The Federal Correctional Institute, Dublin - nicknamed "Club Fed" and listed by Forbes as one of "America's Cushiest Prisons."

Located just outside San Francisco, the minimum security complex, the prison offers Zumba and yoga classes, and offers inmates the opportunity to devote their time to certain trades with apprenticeships available.

She's starred in two previously filmed Netflix projects since her sentencing, When They See Us, and Otherhood.

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