Gail O'Grady

 O'Grady left NYPD Blue to star in many television movies for Lifetime and other networks. These include The Three Lives of Karen (1997) and Two Voices (1997). [6] O'Grady's 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 who lived in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in the 1960s. The show was cancelled after just three seasons. In the fall of 2005 O'Grady was the lead actress on the ABC comedy series Hot Properties, which was removed after 13 seasons. She also appeared in Two and a Half Men in the year 2006. She also starred in Boston Legal in 2007, as Gloria Weldon (a judge in an affair with Alan Shore). In 2007, she appeared on Two and a Half Men. She also appeared on Boston Legal in 2007 as Gloria Weldon, who was a judge in the personal life of attorney Alan Shore. From 2010 until 2011, O'Grady played Wanda Perkins as her mother on Hellcats. As Anne Schilling, an actress who is involved in an affair with Porter Scavo, O'Grady starred in ABC's Desperate housewives in 2008 as a regular character.