Gail O'Grady

 O'Grady quit NYPD Blue to star in many television movies for Lifetime and other networks. The most notable are 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 to 2005, O'Grady starred as Helen Pryor in the NBC television show American Dreams, which depicted an all-American family in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, during the 1960s. After three seasons, O'Grady was dismissed from the show. In the fall of 2005 O'Grady was the lead actor in the ABC comedy series Hot Properties, which was removed after 13 seasons. O'Grady appeared as a guest in Two and a Half Men in the year 2006. Also, she appeared on Boston Legal in 2007, as Gloria Weldon (a judge in an affair with Alan Shore). Also in 2007, she appeared on the Hallmark Channel movie All I Want for Christmas.O'Grady has recurring roles on the short-lived CW series Hidden Palms as Karen Hardy in 2007, as well as on Hellcats, playing Wanda Perkins, the mother of the main character between 2010 and in 2011. In 2008, she had regular roles on the ABC series Desperate Housewives as Anne Schilling, a woman who is having an affair with the character Porter Scavo (at that point a teenager