Gail O'Grady

 O'Grady was released from NYPD Blue to star in many television movies for Lifetime as well as other networks. This includes The Three Lives of Karen (1997) and Two Voices (1997). Her most notable screen credits include Celtic Pride (1996), That Old Feeling (1997), Deuce Bigalow (male Gigolo 1999) and Walking Across Egypt (99). From 2002 until 2005, O'Grady appeared on the NBC television series American Dreams. The series was about an all-American family living in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania during the 1960s. After three seasons, the show was pulled. O'Grady was the main character on ABC's comedy show Hot Properties in Fall 2005. The series was cancelled after just 13 episodes. In 2006, she guest starred in Two and a Half Men and in 2007 she had a recurring role on Boston Legal as Gloria Weldon an attorney in an intimate relationship with attorney Alan Shore. Also in 2007 she was a part of the Hallmark Channel movie All I Want for Christmas.O'Grady played a regular role 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 2011. In 2008, she was her own recurring role in the ABC series Desperate Housewives, playing Anne Schilling, a woman who has an affair with the character Porter Scavo (at that point a teenager