Gail O'Grady

 O'Grady quit NYPD Blue to star in numerous television films for Lifetime as well as other networks. They include The Three Lives of Karen (1997) and Two Voices (1997). Her 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), where she was Helen Pryor, an all-American family living in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in the 1960s. After three seasons, the show was pulled. O'Grady was the main actress on the comedy series on ABC Hot Properties in Fall 2005. The show was pulled after just 13 episodes. O'Grady was a guest on Two and a Half Men in the year 2006. She also appeared in Boston Legal in 2007, as Gloria Weldon (a judge in an affair with Alan Shore). In 2007, she appeared in the show Two and a Half Men. She also appeared on the show Boston Legal in 2007 as Gloria Weldon, a judge who is in an intimate relationship with attorney Alan Shore. From 2010 until 2011, O'Grady played Wanda Perkins her mother on Hellcats. She was a regular on the part in the role of Anne Schilling on ABC's Desperate Housewives. It was during the time she was just a young woman who was having an affair (at the time, she was just a teenager).