Gail O'Grady

 After leaving NYPD Blue, O'Grady began starring in numerous television movies 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] Her big screen credits include Celtic Pride (1996), That Old Feeling (1997), Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo (1999) and Walking Across Egypt (1999).From 2002 until 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 3 seasons, she was dismissed from the series. O'Grady starred as the lead actress on Hot Properties, an ABC comedy show that was cut after 13 episodes. In 2006, she appeared as a guest in Two and a Half Men and, in 2007, had a recurring role in Boston Legal as Gloria Weldon an attorney in the personal life of lawyer Alan Shore. In 2007 she was a part of 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 between 2010 and the year 2011. In 2008, she had a recurring role on the ABC series Desperate Housewives, playing Anne Schilling, a woman who has an affair with the character Porter Scavo (at that point she was a teenager).