Gail O'Grady

 After leaving NYPD Blue, O'Grady began acting in a variety of television films for Lifetime and other networks. These 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 More Sex & the Single Mom (2005). O'Grady's screen credits include Celtic Pride (1996), That Old Feeling (1997), Deuce Bigalow (1999), Walking Across Egypt (1999) and Lip Service (2000). She also starred in the NBC television series American Dreams (2003), in which she played Helen Pryor, an all-American family living in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in the 1960s. After three seasons, she was fired from the show. O'Grady was the lead actress on Hot Properties, an ABC comedy that was cancelled after 13 episodes. In 2006, she appeared as a guest on Two and a Half Men, and in 2007 was a regular on Boston Legal as Gloria Weldon who was a judge who had an intimate relationship with attorney Alan Shore. In 2007, she also appeared in the show the show All I Want for Christmas on Hallmark Channel in 2007. In 2007, she also appeared as the guest on Two and a Half Men. In 2007 O'Grady was frequent in Boston Legal, playing Gloria Weldon. Also, in 2007, O'Grady played the role of Karen Hardy on CW. Hellcats from 2010 to 2011, in which she played Wanda Perkins (the mother of the main character). She starred in a recurring role in the role of Anne Schilling on ABC's Desperate Housewives. The time was when she was just a young woman having an affair (at the time, she was a teenager).