Gail O'Grady

 After leaving NYPD Blue, O'Grady began playing in several 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 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 was also featured in the NBC television series American Dreams (2003), in which she was Helen Pryor, an all-American family living in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in the 1960s. After three seasons, the program was cancelled. In the fall of 2005 O'Grady was the lead actress in the ABC comedy series Hot Properties, which was ended after 13 episodes. In 2006, she starred as a guest on Two and a Half Men as well as in 2007. She also had a recurring role in Boston Legal as Gloria Weldon an attorney in the personal life of lawyer Alan Shore. In 2007, she was a guest star on Two and a Half Men. She also appeared on Boston Legal in 2007 as Gloria Weldon, a judge in a personal relationship with attorney Alan Shore. From 2010 until 2011, O'Grady played Wanda Perkins her mother on Hellcats. In 2008, she was her own recurring role in the ABC show Desperate Housewives, playing Anne Schilling, a woman who is involved in an affair with the character Porter Scavo (at that point she was a teenager).