Gail O'Grady

 After quitting NYPD Blue, O'Grady began acting in a variety of 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 big screen credits include Celtic Pride (1996), That Old Feeling (1997), Deuce Bigalow (1999), Walking Across Egypt (1999) as well as Lip Service (2000). She was also featured in the NBC TV series American Dreams (2003), where she was Helen Pryor, an all-American family who lived in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in the 1960s. The show was cancelled after three seasons. In the fall of 2005 O'Grady was the lead actress in the ABC comedy series Hot Properties, which was ended after 13 episodes. In 2006, she starred as a guest in Two and a Half Men as well as in 2007. She also had a recurring role in Boston Legal as Gloria Weldon an attorney in an intimate relationship with lawyer Alan Shore. In 2007, she starred on Two and a Half Men. She also starred in the 2007 season of Boston Legal as Gloria Weldon, who was a judge in an intimate relationship with attorney Alan Shore. From 2010 to 2011, O'Grady played Wanda Perkins, her mother, on Hellcats. In 2008, she played a recurring role on the ABC series Desperate Housewives, playing Anne Schilling, a woman who is involved in an affair with the character Porter Scavo (at that point a teenager