Gail O'Grady

 After quitting NYPD Blue, O'Grady began appearing in various television shows for Lifetime and other networks, such as 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] O'Grady's big screen credits include Celtic Pride (1996), That Old Feeling (1997), Deuce Bigalow (1999), Walking Across Egypt (1999) as well as Lip Service (2000). She was also in the NBC television show American Dreams (2003), where she was Helen Pryor, an all-American family living in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in the 1960s. After three seasons, the show was cancelled. O'Grady was the lead actress on Hot Properties, an ABC comedy series that was cancelled after just 13 episodes. O'Grady guest starred in Two and a Half Men in 2006. She also appeared in Boston Legal in 2007, as Gloria Weldon (a judge in a relationship with Alan Shore). In 2007, she starred in the Hallmark Channel movie All I Want for Christmas.O'Grady had regular roles on 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 until in 2011. As Anne Schilling, an actress who has been having an affair with Porter Scavo, O'Grady starred in ABC's Desperate housewives in 2008 as a recurring character.