Gail O'Grady

 After leaving NYPD Blue, O'Grady began appearing in various television shows 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 more Sex & the Single Mom (2005). [6] O'Grady's 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 played a role in the NBC television show American Dreams (2003), in which she played Helen Pryor, an all-American family who lived in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in the 1960s. After three seasons, the show was cancelled. O'Grady starred as the lead actress on Hot Properties, an ABC comedy show that was cut after just 13 episodes. In 2006, she appeared as an actor on 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 involved in a relationship with Alan Shore. Also, she appeared on the show All I Want for Christmas on Hallmark Channel in 2007. In 2007 she was also an actor on the TV show Two and Half Men. In 2007, O'Grady was frequent in Boston Legal, playing Gloria Weldon. In 2007, O'Grady played the role of Karen Hardy on CW. Hellcats from 2010 to 2011, in which she was Wanda Perkins (the mother of the main character). as Anne Schilling, an actress who is involved in an affair with Porter Scavo, O'Grady starred on ABC's Desperate housewives in 2008 as a regular character.