Gail O'Grady

 O'Grady has left NYPD Blue to star in various television shows for Lifetime and other networks. They include The Three Lives of Karen (1997) and Two Voices (1997). Her screen credits include Celtic Pride (1996), That Old Feeling (1997), Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo (1999) and Walking Across Egypt (1999).From 2002 to the year 2005, O'Grady starred as Helen Pryor in the NBC TV series American Dreams that portrayed an all-American family living in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, during the 1960s. After three seasons, O'Grady was dismissed from the show. O'Grady played the lead actress on Hot Properties, an ABC comedy show that was canceled after 13 episodes. She also appeared in Two and a Half Men in the year 2006. She also starred in Boston Legal in 2007, as Gloria Weldon (a judge in a relationship with Alan Shore). In 2007, she was a guest star on Two and a Half Men. In addition, she starred in the 2007 season of Boston Legal as Gloria Weldon. She was a judge with personal relationships with attorney Alan Shore. From 2010 until 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. This was when she was a young woman having an affair (at the time, she was a teenager).