Gail O'Grady

 O'Grady quit NYPD Blue to star in many television movies for Lifetime and other networks. They include The Three Lives of Karen (1997) and Two Voices (1997). 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 in the NBC television show American Dreams (2003), where she played Helen Pryor, an all-American family living in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in the 1960s. After three seasons, the series was cancelled. In the fall of 2005, O'Grady was the lead actress in the ABC comedy series Hot Properties, which was cancelled after 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 an intimate relationship with lawyer Alan Shore. Also in 2007 she was a part of 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 played regular roles on the ABC show Desperate Housewives as Anne Schilling, a woman who is having an affair with the character Porter Scavo (at that point a teenager