Gail O'Grady

 O'Grady was a part of a variety of television films for Lifetime and other networks, including The Three Lives of Karen (1997), Two Voices (1997), Every 9 Seconds(1997), Two of Hearts (1997) and Two of Hearts (1997). Her big screen credits include Celtic Pride (1996), That Old Feeling (1997), Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo (1999) and Walking Across Egypt (1999).From 2002 to 2005, O'Grady starred as Helen Pryor in the NBC television series American Dreams which portrayed an all-American family living in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, during the 1960s. After three seasons of the show, it was pulled. O'Grady was the main character on the comedy series on ABC Hot Properties in Fall 2005. The show was cancelled after 13 episodes. She also appeared in Two and a Half Men in 2006. She also starred in Boston Legal in 2007, as Gloria Weldon (a judge in a relationship with Alan Shore). Also in 2007 she was a part of the Hallmark Channel movie All I Want for Christmas.O'Grady has recurring roles in the short-lived CW series Hidden Palms as Karen Hardy in 2007, and on Hellcats, playing Wanda Perkins, the mother of the main character from 2010 until in 2011. In the role of Anne Schilling, an actress who has been involved in an affair with Porter Scavo, O'Grady starred on ABC's Desperate housewives in 2008 as a recurring character.