Gail O'Grady

 After leaving NYPD Blue, O'Grady began playing in several television films for Lifetime and other networks, such as 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). The majority of O'Grady's 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. The show included an all-American family from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania during the 1960s. The show was cancelled after three seasons. O'Grady played the lead actress in Hot Properties, an ABC comedy show that was canceled after just 13 episodes. O'Grady was a guest on Two and a Half Men in 2006. She also appeared in Boston Legal in 2007, as Gloria Weldon (a judge in a relationship with Alan Shore). She also starred in the show All I Want for Christmas on Hallmark Channel in 2007. In 2007, she also appeared as guest-starring on Two and a half Men. In 2007 O'Grady was an anchor in Boston Legal, playing Gloria Weldon. In 2007, O'Grady played the role of Karen Hardy on CW. Hellcats between 2010 and 2011, where she was Wanda Perkins (the mother of the main character). In the role of 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 recurring character.