Gail O'Grady

 O'Grady left NYPD Blue to star in numerous television films for Lifetime and other networks. These include The Three Lives of Karen (1997) and Two Voices (1997). Her big screen credits include Celtic Pride (1996), That Old Feeling (1997), Deuce Bigalow (1999), Walking Across Egypt (1999), and Lip Service (2000). She was also featured in the NBC television show American Dreams (2003), in which she played Helen Pryor, an all-American family living in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in the 1960s. After three seasons, the show was pulled. O'Grady was the lead actress on Hot Properties, an ABC comedy show that was canceled after just 13 episodes. O'Grady was a guest on Two and a Half Men in the year 2006. Also, she appeared on Boston Legal in 2007, as Gloria Weldon (a judge in a relationship with Alan Shore). She also appeared in the show All I Want for Christmas on Hallmark Channel in 2007. In 2007, she also appeared as guest-starring on the TV show Two and Half Men. In 2007 O'Grady was frequent on Boston Legal as Gloria Weldon. Also, in 2007, O'Grady played the role of Karen Hardy on CW. Hellcats from 2010 to 2011, in which she was Wanda Perkins (the mother of the main character). In the role of Anne Schilling, an actress who is involved in an affair with Porter Scavo, O'Grady starred on ABC's Desperate housewives in 2008 as a recurring character.