Gail O'Grady

 After leaving NYPD Blue, O'Grady began playing in several television films for Lifetime and other networks. Some of them include 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 until 2005, O'Grady appeared on the NBC TV show American Dreams. This series was about an all-American family living in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania during the 1960s. After 3 seasons, she was fired from the show. O'Grady was the main character on ABC's comedy series Hot Properties in Fall 2005. The show was canceled after just 13 episodes. O'Grady was a guest on Two and a Half Men in the year 2006. She also starred in Boston Legal in 2007, as Gloria Weldon (a judge in a relationship with Alan Shore). She also appeared in All I Want for Christmas on Hallmark Channel in 2007. In 2007, she was the guest on the show Two and a Half Men. In 2007, O'Grady was the regular on Boston Legal as Gloria Weldon. In 2007, O'Grady played the role of Karen Hardy on CW. Hellcats in 2010-2011, where she played Wanda Perkins (the mother of the main character). As Anne Schilling, an actress who is having an affair with Porter Scavo, O'Grady starred in ABC's Desperate housewives in 2008 as a recurring character.