Gail O'Grady

 O'Grady played a prominent role in numerous television films for Lifetime and others, such as The Three Lives of Karen (1997), Two Voices (1997) as well as Every 9 Seconds(1997), Two of Hearts (1997) and Two of Hearts (1997). 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 also starred in the NBC television show American Dreams (2003), in which she played Helen Pryor, an all-American family that lived in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in the 1960s. The show was cancelled after just three seasons. O'Grady played the lead actress in Hot Properties, an ABC comedy show that was canceled after just 13 episodes. In 2006, she starred as a guest in Two and a Half Men and, in 2007, had a recurring role on Boston Legal as Gloria Weldon who was a judge who had an intimate relationship with attorney Alan Shore. Also in 2007 she was a part of the Hallmark Channel movie All I Want for Christmas.O'Grady had regular roles in the short-lived CW series Hidden Palms as Karen Hardy in 2007, and on Hellcats as Wanda Perkins, the mother of the main character, from 2010 until 2011. In the role of Anne Schilling, an actress who has been involved in an affair with Porter Scavo, O'Grady starred in ABC's Desperate housewives in 2008 as a regular character.