Gail O'Grady

 After quitting NYPD Blue, O'Grady began appearing in various television shows for Lifetime and other networks, such as 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). Her most notable screen credits include Celtic Pride (1996), That Old Feeling (1997), Deuce Bigalow (male Gigolo 1999) and Walking Across Egypt (99). From 2002 until 2005, O'Grady was a part of the NBC TV show American Dreams. This show focused on an all-American American family in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania during the 1960s. After three seasons, the series was cancelled. In fall 2005, O'Grady was the lead actress on the ABC comedy series Hot Properties, which was ended after 13 episodes. In 2006, O'Grady was a guest star in the TV show Two and a Half Men. She had a recurring part in Boston Legal as Gloria Weldon in 2007. Gloria Weldon is a judge, who is currently in a romantic relationship with Alan Shore. She also appeared in All I Want for Christmas on Hallmark Channel in 2007. In 2007, she also appeared as a guest star on the show Two and a Half Men. In 2007 O'Grady was a regular on Boston Legal as Gloria Weldon. In 2007, O'Grady played the role of Karen Hardy on CW. Hellcats between 2010 and 2011, where she played Wanda Perkins (the mother of the main character). In 2008, she was a recurring role on the ABC series Desperate Housewives, playing Anne Schilling, a woman who is engaged with the character Porter Scavo (at that point an teen).