Gail O'Grady

 After quitting 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 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 TV series 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 pulled. O'Grady was the lead actress on ABC's comedy series Hot Properties in Fall 2005. The series was cancelled after 13 episodes. In 2006, she starred as a guest on Two and a Half Men and in 2007 she featured in a recurring role in Boston Legal as Gloria Weldon, a judge in the personal life of lawyer Alan Shore. In 2007, she appeared on the TV show Two and Half Men. In addition, she starred in the 2007 season of Boston Legal as Gloria Weldon. She was a judge with a personal relationship with attorney Alan Shore. From 2010 until 2011, O'Grady played Wanda Perkins who was her mother, on Hellcats. She starred in a recurring role as Anne Schilling on ABC's Desperate Housewives. The time was when she was just a young woman in the midst of an affair (at the time, she was just a teenager).