Gail O'Grady

 After leaving NYPD Blue, O'Grady began starring in numerous television movies 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 Sex & the Single Mom (2005). 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 series American Dreams (2003), in which she was Helen Pryor, an all-American family who lived in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in the 1960s. The series was canceled after three seasons. O'Grady was the lead actress in ABC's comedy show Hot Properties in Fall 2005. The show was pulled after just 13 episodes. In 2006, she starred as a guest in Two and a Half Men, and in 2007 featured in a recurring role in Boston Legal as Gloria Weldon who was a judge who had the personal life of lawyer Alan Shore. In 2007, she starred in the Hallmark Channel movie All I Want for Christmas.O'Grady had regular roles in the short-lived CW series Hidden Palms as Karen Hardy in 2007, as well as on Hellcats she played Wanda Perkins, the mother of the main character from 2010 to 2011. The actress played a regular part in the role of Anne Schilling on ABC's Desperate Housewives. This was when she was a young lady having an affair (at the time, she was just a teenager).