Actress Felicity Huffman has reported to federal prison in California to serve a two-week sentence after the college admissions scandal, her representative has said.
A federal judge in Boston sentenced Huffman last month to 14 days in prison, a 30,000 US dollars (£23,000) fine, 250 hours of community service and a year's probation.
The Desperate Housewives star will carry out her sentence at the Federal Correctional Institution, Dublin, a low-security prison for women in the San Francisco area.
Huffman pleaded guilty in May to fraud and conspiracy for paying an admissions consultant 15,000 US dollars (£12,000) to have a proctor correct her daughter's SAT answers.
A statement from Huffman's representative says that she "is prepared to serve the term of imprisonment Judge Talwani ordered as one part of the punishment she imposed for Ms Huffman's actions".
Huffman was the first parent sentenced in a wide-ranging US college admissions scandal.
More than 30 parents were charged in the investigation dubbed Operation Varsity Blue.
Actress Lori Loughlin, who starred in the TV series "Full House," and her designer husband Mossimo Giannulli were also charged as well as a host of corporate executives, financiers and lawyers.
Unlike Huffman, Loughlin and Giannulli pleaded not guilty.
The scandal cast a spotlight on the advantages of wealth in college admissions and the lengths to which some rich Americans have gone to get their children into top universities at the expense of other applicants.
These schools included Yale, Stanford, Georgetown, the University of Southern California, the University of Texas and Wake Forest.
