Gail O'Grady

 After quitting NYPD Blue, O'Grady began appearing in various television shows for Lifetime and other networks. Some of them include The Three Lives of Karen (1997), Two Voices (1997), Every 9 Seconds (1997), Two of Hearts (1999), Another Woman's Husband (2000), Lip Service (2000) Hostage Negotiator (2001), Hope Ranch (2002), Lucky 7 (2003), Sex and the Single Mom (2003), and More Sex & the Single Mom (2005). [6] Her big screen credits include Celtic Pride (1996), That Old Feeling (1997), Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo (1999) and Walking Across Egypt (1999).From 2002 to 2005, O'Grady starred as Helen Pryor in the NBC television show American Dreams which portrayed an all-American family in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, during the 1960s. After three seasons, the series was pulled. O'Grady was the lead actress in Hot Properties, an ABC comedy series that was cancelled after 13 episodes. O'Grady appeared as a guest in Two and a Half Men in 2006. In 2007, she also appeared on Boston Legal in 2007, as Gloria Weldon (a judge in a relationship with Alan Shore). Also in 2007 she was a part of the Hallmark Channel movie All I Want for Christmas.O'Grady was a regular in the short-lived CW series Hidden Palms as Karen Hardy in 2007, as well as on Hellcats in the role of Wanda Perkins, the mother of the main character, from 2010 to 2011. The actress played a regular part as Anne Schilling on ABC's Desperate Housewives. It was in the year she was a young woman who was having an affair (at the time, she was just a teenager).