Gail O'Grady

 O'Grady was released from 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 screen credits include Celtic Pride (1996), That Old Feeling (1997), Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo (1999) and Walking Across Egypt (1999).From 2002 until the year 2005, O'Grady starred as Helen Pryor in the NBC television series American Dreams that portrayed an all-American family living in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, during the 1960s. After 3 seasons, she was fired from the series. O'Grady was the lead actress on ABC's comedy series Hot Properties in Fall 2005. The show was cancelled after 13 episodes. She also appeared in Two and a Half Men in the year 2006. She also starred in Boston Legal in 2007, as Gloria Weldon (a judge in a relationship with Alan Shore). In 2007 she was a part of the Hallmark Channel movie All I Want for Christmas.O'Grady has recurring roles in the short-lived CW series Hidden Palms as Karen Hardy in 2007, as well as on Hellcats as Wanda Perkins, the mother of the main character from 2010 until the year 2011. As Anne Schilling, an actress who has been involved in an affair with Porter Scavo, O'Grady starred in ABC's Desperate housewives in 2008 as a regular character.