Gail O'Grady

 O'Grady has appeared in a number of television films for Lifetime and others, including The Three Lives of Karen (1997), Two Voices (1997) The Ninety-Nineth Seconds(1997), Two of Hearts (1997) and Two of Hearts (1997). [6] O'Grady's 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 featured in the NBC television series American Dreams (2003), where she played Helen Pryor, an all-American family from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in the 1960s. After three seasons of the show, it was cancelled. O'Grady was the main character on the comedy series on ABC Hot Properties in Fall 2005. The series was cancelled after just 13 episodes. In 2006, she starred as a guest on Two and a Half Men and, in 2007, was a regular in Boston Legal as Gloria Weldon who was a judge who had an intimate relationship with attorney Alan Shore. Also in 2007, she appeared on 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, as well as on Hellcats in the role of Wanda Perkins, the mother of the main character, between 2010 and in 2011. In 2008, she had her own recurring role in the ABC series Desperate Housewives as Anne Schilling, a woman who is having an affair with the character Porter Scavo (at that point a teenager