Gail O'Grady

 aO'Grady was a part of a variety 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). 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 the year 2005, O'Grady starred as Helen Pryor in the NBC TV series American Dreams that portrayed an all-American family in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, during the 1960s. After three seasons, O'Grady was dismissed from the show. In fall 2005, O'Grady was the lead actress on the ABC comedy series Hot Properties, which was cancelled after 13 episodes. In 2006, she was a guest star on Two and a Half Men and in 2007 she had a recurring role on Boston Legal as Gloria Weldon who was a judge who had a personal relationship with attorney Alan Shore. Also, she appeared on All I Want for Christmas on Hallmark Channel in 2007. In 2007, she was an actor on the TV show Two and Half Men. In 2007, O'Grady was a regular in Boston Legal, playing Gloria Weldon. In 2007, too, O'Grady played the role of Karen Hardy on CW. Hellcats between 2010 and 2011, where she played Wanda Perkins (the mother of the main character). In 2008, she played an ongoing role on the ABC show Desperate Housewives, playing Anne Schilling, a woman who has an affair with the character Porter Scavo (at that point an teen).