Gail O'Grady

 After quitting NYPD Blue, O'Grady began acting in a variety of television films 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). [6] Her big screen credits include Celtic Pride (1996), That Old Feeling (1997), Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo (1999) and Walking Across Egypt (1999).From 2002 to 2005, O'Grady starred as Helen Pryor in the NBC television series American Dreams, which depicted an all-American family in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, during the 1960s. After three seasons, the series was cancelled. O'Grady starred as the lead actress on Hot Properties, an ABC comedy that was cancelled after 13 episodes. In 2006, O'Grady was a guest star in the TV show Two and a Half Men. She played a regular role in Boston Legal as Gloria Weldon in 2007. Gloria Weldon is a judge, who is currently involved in a relationship with Alan Shore. In 2007, she starred in 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, and on Hellcats in the role of Wanda Perkins, the mother of the main character, from 2010 to in 2011. In the role of Anne Schilling, an actress who has been having an affair with Porter Scavo, O'Grady starred in ABC's Desperate housewives in 2008 as a recurring character.