Gail O'Grady

 After leaving NYPD Blue, O'Grady began appearing in various television shows 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). Her big 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 TV series American Dreams (2003), in which she was Helen Pryor, an all-American family from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in the 1960s. After three seasons, the program was cancelled. O'Grady was the lead actress on the comedy series on ABC Hot Properties in Fall 2005. The series was cancelled after just 13 episodes. She also appeared in Two and a Half Men in the year 2006. Also, she appeared on Boston Legal in 2007, as Gloria Weldon (a judge in an affair with Alan Shore). In 2007, she appeared on Two and a Half Men. She also starred on Boston Legal in 2007 as Gloria Weldon, who was a judge in personal relationships with attorney Alan Shore. From 2010 to 2011, O'Grady played Wanda Perkins who was her mother, on Hellcats. The actress played a regular part in the role of Anne Schilling on ABC's Desperate Housewives. It was in the year she was just a young woman in the midst of an affair (at the time, she was just a teenager).