Gail O'Grady

 O'Grady has appeared in a number of TV-related films on Lifetime and other networks, including 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 was also in the NBC television series American Dreams (2003), in which she played Helen Pryor, an all-American family from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in the 1960s. After three seasons, the program was cancelled. O'Grady was the lead actress on ABC's comedy show Hot Properties in Fall 2005. The series was cancelled after just 13 episodes. O'Grady appeared as a guest in Two and a Half Men in 2006. Also, she appeared on Boston Legal in 2007, as Gloria Weldon (a judge in a relationship with Alan Shore). In 2007, she starred in the Hallmark Channel movie All I Want for Christmas.O'Grady had regular roles on 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 in 2011. In the role of Anne Schilling, an actress who is having an affair with Porter Scavo, O'Grady starred on ABC's Desperate housewives in 2008 as a regular character.