Gail O'Grady
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Gail O'Grady (b. 23 January 1963 in Detroit, Michigan) is an American actress. She was raised in Wheaton, Illinois and graduated from Wheaton North High School in 1981. Image File history File links Size of this preview: 274 × 598 pixelsFull resolution (611 × 1334 pixel, file size: 466 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) File historyClick on a date/time to view the file as it appeared at that time. ... is the 23rd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1963 (MCMLXIII) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Motto: Speramus Meliora; Resurget Cineribus (We Hope For Better Things; It Shall Rise From the Ashes - this motto was adopted after the disastrous 1805 fire that devastated the city) Nickname: The Motor City and Motown Location in Wayne County, Michigan Founded Incorporated July 24, 1701 1815  County Wayne County Mayor... Official language(s) None (English, de-facto) Capital Lansing Largest city Detroit Largest metro area Metro Detroit Area  Ranked 11th  - Total 97,990 sq mi (253,793 km²)  - Width 239 miles (385 km)  - Length 491 miles (790 km)  - % water 41. ...

O'Grady was first seen by American television audiences in a 1987 Diet Pepsi commercial titled "Apartment 10G," starring Michael J. Fox. O'Grady played his sexy neighbor for whom Fox leaped down a fire escape and across a busy, rainy street to get a Diet Pepsi when he found none in his own fridge. TV Guide listed the ad as #41 in its 1999 list of "The 50 Greatest TV Commercials of All Time." Diet Pepsi is a low-calorie carbonated cola. ... For other persons named Michael Fox, see Michael Fox (disambiguation). ... TV Guide is the name of two North American weekly magazines about television programming, one in the United States and one in Canada. ...

Her first major role was as Donna Abandando on the police drama NYPD Blue. O'Grady played the big-haired squad secretary from 1993-1996, and for each year received an Emmy Award nomination for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series. O'Grady left the series in 1996 and made a pilot for her own sitcom, The Gail O'Grady Project, but the show was not picked up by any of the networks. She's also made appearances on the hit CBS sitcom, Two and a Half Men; and also appeared in the last episode of Designing Women playing the trophy wife of a business rival of Judith Ivey's character, B.J. Poteet. NYPD Blue was an Emmy Award-winning hour long-running American television police drama set in New York City. ... An Emmy Award. ... Two and a Half Men is an Emmy-nominated television sitcom centered around a freewheeling bachelor, Charlie, whose carefree lifestyle is interrupted when his newly separated brother, Alan, moves in, along with Alans son Jake. ... Designing Women was an American television sitcom that centered around the working and personal lives of four women in an interior design firm in Atlanta, Georgia. ... Judith Ivey (born September 4, 1951 in El Paso, Texas) is an American actress. ... Bonnie Jean B.J. Poteet is a character in the final season of the television series, Designing Women. ...

O'Grady found success starring in numerous television movies, including The Three Lives of Karen, Another Woman's Husband, Sex & the Single Mom, and Lip Service.

In 2002-2005, she played the mother, Helen Pryor in the NBC television series American Dreams, which depicted an all-American family living in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania during the 1960s. At the beginning of the 2005-2006 television season, she starred on the ABC sitcom Hot Properties. However, ABC announced late in 2005 that the series would be cancelled. Helen Pryor (born c. ... This article is about the television network. ... American Dreams was an American television drama program broadcast on the NBC television network. ... Nickname: City of Brotherly Love, Philly, the Quaker City Motto: Philadelphia maneto (Let brotherly love continue) Location in Pennsylvania Coordinates: Country United States State Pennsylvania County Philadelphia Founded October 27, 1682 Incorporated October 25, 1701 Mayor John F. Street (D) Area    - City 369. ... 2002 identity of the ABC Circle logo, designed by Paul Rand in 1962. ... The cast of Hot Properties Hot Properties was an ensemble comedy featuring four women working together in a Manhattan real estate office. ...

In 2007, she began a recurring role on Boston Legal as Gloria Weldon, a judge in a personal relationship with attorney Alan Shore. Boston Legal is an American dramedy television series that began airing on ABC on October 3rd, 2004. ... Alan Shore is a fictional character on the ABC Network television series Boston Legal, portrayed by James Spader. ...

She also had a supporting role on the short-lived CW teenage drama series, Hidden Palms. CW may stand for: The CW Television Network (colloquially The CW), a television network which launched in September 2006 as a merger of both the UPN and The WB networks. ... Hidden Palms is an American teen drama television series that ran from May 30, 2007 until July 4, 2007 on The CW in the United States. ...

Married and divorced four times, O'Grady gave birth to her first child, son Michael Colton, in 2004.

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