Celebrity Celebrity Family Celebrity Babies A Baby Girl for 'Housewives' Hunk Denton Actor James Denton and his wife Erin welcome their second child, born Tuesday morning By Stephen M. Silverman Stephen M. Silverman Stephen M. Silverman is the former founding editor of PEOPLE.com. He left PEOPLE in 2015. People Editorial Guidelines Published on March 22, 2005 02:00PM EST Desperate Housewives resident hunk James Denton has a new woman in his life: Malin O’Brien Denton, born to the actor and his wife, Erin O’Brien Denton early Tuesday at a Los Angeles area hospital, says his publicist. “They are really great, really great,” Susan Madore said, adding the mother returned to the couple’s Glendale home just hours after giving birth to the 7 lb., 5 oz. Malin. Denton, 42, plays mysterious plumber Mike Delfino on the ABC Sunday night sensation and his wife is a personal trainer, according to the Associated Press. They were married in late 2002 and have a son, 22-month-old Sheppard. In a profile last November, PEOPLE reported that Denton, a Nashville native, didn’t begin acting until he was 28 (before that he was an ad salesman), and costar Marcia Cross said of him: “He is just quiet and unassuming, with something really solid at the core and very deep.” Close