Gail O'Grady

 O'Grady starred in many TV movies for Lifetime and others, such as The Three Lives of Karen (1997), Two Voices (1997) and 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 featured in the NBC TV series American Dreams (2003), in which she was Helen Pryor, an all-American family that lived in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in the 1960s. After 3 seasons, she was fired from the show. O'Grady starred as the lead actress in Hot Properties, an ABC comedy series that was cancelled after just 13 episodes. O'Grady guest starred in Two and a Half Men in 2006. She also appeared in Boston Legal in 2007, as Gloria Weldon (a judge in an affair with Alan Shore). Also in 2007, she appeared on the Hallmark Channel movie All I Want for Christmas.O'Grady has recurring roles on the short-lived CW series Hidden Palms as Karen Hardy in 2007, and on Hellcats, playing Wanda Perkins, the mother of the main character, between 2010 and in 2011. As 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.