Gail O'Grady

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