Gail O'Grady

 After quitting NYPD Blue, O'Grady began appearing in various television shows for Lifetime and other networks, including 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 Sex & the Single Mom (2005). 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 to 2005 O'Grady starred in the NBC television show American Dreams. The show focused on an all-American American family in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania during the 1960s. After three seasons, the program was pulled. O'Grady starred as the lead actress in Hot Properties, an ABC comedy series that was cancelled after just 13 episodes. O'Grady appeared as a guest in Two and a Half Men in 2006. Also, she appeared on Boston Legal in 2007, as Gloria Weldon (a judge in an affair with Alan Shore). In 2007, she starred in the show Two and a Half Men. She also starred on Boston Legal in 2007 as Gloria Weldon, a judge in a personal relationship with attorney Alan Shore. From 2010 until 2011, O'Grady played Wanda Perkins her mother on Hellcats. As Anne Schilling, an actress who has been having an affair with Porter Scavo, O'Grady starred on ABC's Desperate housewives in 2008 as a regular character.