Gail O'Grady
Birthday: Born in 1963-01-23 in Detroit, Michigan, USA
Deathday: Alive
Gail Ann O'Grady (born January 23, 1963), an American actress and producer, is best known for her roles as Donna Abandando on the ABC police drama NYPD Blue, and Helen Pryor on the NBC drama series American Dreams. She is also well known for her lead roles in a number of television movies. She has been nominated for a Primetime Emmy Awards three times. She has been married six times and has 3 children.
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Murder, She Wrote
Character: Robin Dishman
An unassuming mystery writer turned sleuth uses her professional insight to help solve real-life homicide cases....
Cheers
Character: Laura Walton
The story about a blue-collar Boston bar run by former sports star Sam Malone and the quirky and wonderful people who worked and drank there....
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
Character: Mrs. Towne
A Las Vegas team of forensic investigators are trained to solve criminal cases by scouring the crime scene, collecting irrefutable evidence and finding the missing pieces that solve the mystery....
Designing Women
Character:
Julia Sugarbaker, Mary Jo Shively, Charlene Frazier-Stillfield and Suzanne Sugarbaker are associates at their design firm, Sugarbaker and Associates. Julia is the owner and is very outspoken and strong-willed. Mary Jo is a divorced single-parent whom is just as strong-willed as Julia, but isn't as self-confident. Charlene is the naive and trusting farm girl from Poplar Bluff, Missouri. Suzanne is the self-centered ex-beauty queen whom has a number of wealthy ex-husbands....
Ally McBeal
Character:
Ally McBeal is a young lawyer working at the Boston law firm Cage and Fish. Ally's lives and loves are eccentric, humorous, dramatic with an incredibly overactive imagination that's working overtime!...
Ghost Whisperer
Character: Karen Westen
Newlywed Melinda Gordon tries to help the dead communicate with loved ones, but sometimes the messages she receives are intense and confusing. Most of Melinda's efforts involve resolving conflicts that are preventing the spirits from passing over....
CSI: Miami
Character:
CSI: Miami follows Crime Scene Investigators working for the Miami-Dade Police Department as they use physical evidence, similar to their Las Vegas counterparts, to solve grisly murders. The series mixes deduction, gritty subject matter, and character-driven drama in the same vein as the original series in the CSI franchise, except that the Miami CSIs are cops first, scientists second....
Monk
Character: Miranda St. Claire
Adrian Monk was once a rising star with the San Francisco Police Department, legendary for using unconventional means to solve the department's most baffling cases. But after the tragic (and still unsolved) murder of his wife Trudy, he developed an extreme case of obsessive-compulsive disorder. Now working as a private consultant, Monk continues to investigate cases in the most unconventional ways....
Desperate Housewives
Character: Anne Schilling
Looking down on her friends and family isn't a way of life for Mary Alice Young... it's a way of death. One day, in her perfect house, in the loveliest of suburbs, Mary Alice ended it all. Now she's taking us into the lives of her family, friends and neighbors, commenting from her elevated P.O.V....
Matlock
Character:
Matlock is an American television legal drama, starring Andy Griffith in the title role of criminal defense attorney Ben Matlock. The show, produced by The Fred Silverman Company, Dean Hargrove Productions, Viacom Productions and Paramount Television originally aired from September 23, 1986 to May 8, 1992 on NBC; and from November 5, 1992 until May 7, 1995 on ABC. The show's format is similar to that of CBS's Perry Mason, with Matlock identifying the perpetrators and then confronting them in dr...
China Beach
Character:
Dateline: November 1967. Within klicks of Danang, Vietnam, sits a U.S. Army base, bar and hospital on China Beach filled with wounded soldiers and one very lovely but damaged Army Nurse Colleen McMurphy. Many heroes, dead and alive, try to make sense of life and death in between bourbon, bullets and battles....
Las Vegas
Character:
Ed Deline is a strict ex-CIA officer who went from being Head of Security to becoming President of Operations of the Montecito, whose job is to run the day-to-day operations of the casino. Following his departure, former Marine Danny McCoy, Ed's former protégé, becomes the Montecito's new President of Operations....
CSI: NY
Character: Millie Taylor
Follow the investigations of a team of NYPD forensic scientists and police officers identified as "Crime Scene Investigators"....
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
Character: Ruth Walker
In the criminal justice system, sexually-based offenses are considered especially heinous. In New York City, the dedicated detectives who investigate these vicious felonies are members of an elite squad known as the Special Victims Unit. These are their stories....
American Dreams
Character: Helen Pryor
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Space: Above and Beyond
Character:
Set in the years 2063–2064, the show focuses on the "Wildcards", members of the United States Marine Corps Space Aviator Cavalry, 58th Squadron. They are stationed on the space carrier USS Saratoga, and act as infantry and pilots of SA-43 Endo/Exo-Atmospheric Attack Jet fighters....
Anything But Love
Character:
Anything But Love is an American television sitcom, which aired on ABC from March 7, 1989 to June 3, 1992, spanning four seasons and 56 episodes. The show starred Richard Lewis as Marty Gold and Jamie Lee Curtis as Hannah Miller, coworkers at a Chicago magazine with a mutual romantic attraction to each other, who struggled to keep their relationship strictly professional. The series, from creator Wendy Kout and developers Dennis Koenig and Peter Noah, was produced by Adam Productions in associat...
Hidden Palms
Character: Karen Hardy
Johnny Miller was a typical 15-year-old until his father committed suicide. Now Johnny lives in Palm Springs with his mother and her new husband. On the outside, Palm Springs is a paradise - but as Johnny learns the secrets that lie just beneath the surface of this seemingly typical neighborhood, he and his family wonder how well they really know the people who live right next door....
Cane
Character:
The lives and internal power struggles of a powerful and wealthy Cuban-American family running an immensely successful rum and sugar cane business in South Florida....
Boston Legal
Character: Judge Gloria Weldon
Alan Shore and Denny Crane lead a brigade of high-priced civil litigators in an upscale Boston law firm in a series focusing on the professional and personal lives of brilliant but often emotionally challenged attorneys. A spin-off of long-running series The Practice....
Hot Properties
Character: Ava Summerlin
Hot Properties is an ensemble ABC comedy featuring four women working together in a Manhattan real estate office. It was first aired on October 7, 2005. Often compared to Sex and the City and the CBS situation comedy Designing Women, this show features four single women professionals, each with distinct personalities that contribute in their failure to secure dates. The comparison to these shows led many critics to describe the show as unoriginal. The women share a passion for Oprah. On November...
Werewolf
Character: Victim in VW
Eric Cord, a college student transformed into a werewolf undergoes a quest to rid himself of his curse by killing the apparent originator of his 'bloodline'....
True Jackson, VP
Character: Sophie Girard
A 15-year-old fashionista lands the opportunity of a lifetime when the CEO of Mad Style hires her as the vice president of its youth apparel division....
Hardball
Character:
Hardball is an American crime drama television series that ran on NBC during the 1989-1990 television schedule....
The Forgotten
Character: Kerry Denver
A team of dedicated amateurs work on cases involving unidentified victims. After the police have given up, this group must first solve the puzzle of the victim's identity in order to then help catch the killer. They work to give the deceased back their names, lest they become—The Forgotten....
Hellcats
Character: Wanda Perkins
Pre-law student Marti Perkins' world is flipped upside down when she loses her scholarship, and realizes the only way she can stay in school is by reigniting her dormant teen gymnastic skills to win a place on Lancer University's legendary cheerleading team....
Castle
Character: Margo Gower
After a serial killer imitates the plots of his novels, successful mystery novelist Richard "Rick" Castle receives permission from the Mayor of New York City to tag along with an NYPD homicide investigation team for research purposes....
Fresh Off the Boat
Character: Gail O'Grady
A '90s-set single-camera comedy about a hip-hop-loving Asian kid growing up in suburban Orlando, being raised by an immigrant father obsessed with all things American and an immigrant mother often bewildered by white culture....
Monk
Character: Lovely Rita
Adrian Monk was once a rising star with the San Francisco Police Department, legendary for using unconventional means to solve the department's most baffling cases. But after the tragic (and still unsolved) murder of his wife Trudy, he developed an extreme case of obsessive-compulsive disorder. Now working as a private consultant, Monk continues to investigate cases in the most unconventional ways....
Drop Dead Diva
Character: Mrs. Thomas
A shallow model suddenly dies in an accident only to find her soul resurfacing in the body of a brilliant, plus-sized attorney....
Revenge
Character: Stevie Grayson
When Emily Thorne moves to the Hamptons, everyone wonders about the new girl, but she knows everything about them, including what they did to her family. Years ago, they took everything from her. Now, one by one, she's going to make them pay....
Criminal Minds
Character: Krystall Richards
An elite team of FBI profilers analyze the country's most twisted criminal minds, anticipating their next moves before they strike again. The Behavioral Analysis Unit's most experienced agent is David Rossi, a founding member of the BAU who returns to help the team solve new cases....
Nothing Lasts Forever
Character: Dr. Page Taylor
The personal lives and careers of three female doctors, from different backgrounds and walks of life, who work at a San Francisco county hospital....
Viral Vignettes
Character: Eve
Twelve one-act comedies that introduced us to 21 unique characters – stuck at home during the pandemic, trying to make sense of an unprecedented situation. A once-in-a-lifetime snapshot, capturing that period in all of its strangeness and unexpected humor....
Burke's Law
Character: Patricia Stone
Burke's Law, a revival of the 1960s cop television series of the same name, aired on CBS from 1994 to 1995. The series centers on Amos Burke, a senior Los Angeles police officer and millionaire, and his son, Peter, who is a detective under his command....
Celebrity Ghost Stories
Character: Self
Compelling, surprising and downright spooky — celebrities share their real-life personal encounters with the paranormal in each one-hour special. From encounters with ghosts and angry spirits to haunted homes, unexplainable spells and magic, these descriptive, first person narratives from our favorite stars delivers a brand new way of experiencing the thrills and chills of the addictive world of the paranormal....
The Crazy Ones
Character: Hannah Sharples
The Crazy Ones is an American situation comedy series created by David E. Kelley that stars Robin Williams and Sarah Michelle Gellar. The single-camera project premiered on CBS on September 26, 2013, as part of the 2013–14 American television season as a Thursday night 9 pm entry. Bill D'Elia, Dean Lorey, Jason Winer, John Montgomery and Mark Teitelbaum serve as executive producers for 20th Century Fox Television....
NYPD Blue
Character: Donna Abandando
Police drama set in New York City, exploring the internal and external struggles of the fictional 15th precinct of Manhattan. Each episode typically intertwined several plots involving an ensemble cast....
Rules of Engagement
Character: Joan
Rules of Engagement is a comedy about the different phases of male/female relationships, as seen through the eyes of a newly engaged couple, Adam and Jennifer, a long-time married pair, Jeff and Audrey, and a single guy on the prowl, Russell. As they find out, the often confusing stages of a relationship can seem like being on a roller coaster. People can describe the ride to you, but to really know what it's like you have to experience it for yourself....
Two and a Half Men
Character: Mandi
A hedonistic jingle writer's free-wheeling life comes to an abrupt halt when his brother and 10-year-old nephew move into his beach-front house....
The Mentalist
Character: Juniper Tolliver
Patrick Jane, a former celebrity psychic medium, uses his razor sharp skills of observation and expertise at "reading" people to solve serious crimes with the California Bureau of Investigation....
Hawaii Five-0
Character: Sharon Archer
Steve McGarrett returns home to Oahu, in order to find his father's killer. The governor offers him the chance to run his own task force (Five-0). Steve's team is joined by Chin Ho Kelly, Danny "Danno" Williams, and Kono Kalakaua....
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Celtic Pride
Character: Carol O'Hara
Two over-loyal Celtic fans kidnap their opponent's star player in order to guarantee their team the championship....
That Old Feeling
Character: Rowena
A bride's divorced parents find their old feelings for each other during the wedding reception and over the course of the next few days upsetting the newlywed's honeymoon....
Another Woman's Husband
Character: Susan Miller
When Laurel signs up for swimming lessons, she becomes best friends with her teacher Susan - until they realize Laurel’s boyfriend and Susan’s husband are the same man....
Hostage Negotiator
Character: Theresa Foley
On the job, top FBI hostage negotiator Theresa Foley (Gail O'Grady) is a tough, no-nonsense professional...calm and cool in the face of risky, potentially deadly situations. At home, she's a loving mother, with two kids and a devoted husband, Frank (Michael Bowen), a fellow FBI agent. But her idyllic home life is shattered when a three-time loser she took down in a failed bank heist escapes from jail and vows revenge. Frank - is becoming increasingly irrational and distant after losing his job w...
Nobody's Perfect
Character: Shelly
Steve is a college freshman who plays tennis for the school. But he falls desperately in love with Shelly, also a tennis player. It's all downhill from there. Steve can't eat, he can't sleep, his grades drop, and he gets kicked off the tennis team. What can he do? Well, his resourceful friend suggest turning Steve into a woman in order to get him close to Shelly who doesn't know he is alive....
While the Children Sleep
Character: Meghan Eastman
A prosperous couple find the perfect live-in nanny but soon discover she intends to do her job to deadly perfection....
Circle
Character: Dr. Green
When remorseless killer James Bennett escapes from lockdown in a mental hospital, an FBI agent and a U.S. Marshal track the madman to his hometown, where he plans to slay a group of graduate students studying his case. But to catch their prey, the officers must plumb the mysteries of psychology, Greek mythology and more....
The Wedding Pact 2: The Baby Pact
Character: Robin Pyle
With the sudden passing of her husband Mitch, a newly pregnant Elizabeth decides to move back to her hometown of Fort Wayne Indiana for a new start. But when a letter surfaces from her late husband, she must confront her past to save her future....
Sleep Easy, Hutch Rimes
Character: Olivia Wise
Insurance agent Hutch Rimes spends a lot of time at the Sleep Easy Hotel, taking long lurid lunch breaks with a string of sexy secretaries who he hires for their "special talents". Ten years ago, one of his office honeys tried to get him to kill her abusive husband. The plan backfired when the hubby killed her by mistake, got sent up the river, and lucky Hutch made a fortune buying off a piece of his ranch. But now it's trouble time -- there's a stalker in the suburbs who wants Hutch dead. Is ...
ChromeSkull: Laid to Rest 2
Character: Nancy
After his gruesome encounter with a girl, and being outmatched by his own assistant, ChromeSkull resurges with a horrifying massacre of his own....
Spellcaster
Character: Jackie
A group of people are killed one by one while participating at a million dollar treasure hunt in a mysterious Italian castle....
All I Want for Christmas
Character: Sarah Armstrong
Tis the season for making dreams true. If everything goes according to plan for one young boy, he just may be sharing this Christmas with a new dad. Ever since her husband died, Sarah Armstrong has divided her time between working at a community center and caring for her nine-year-old son, Jesse. When Jesse wins the All I Want for Christmas contest sponsored by a toy company, his wish comes as no surprise to find a new dad. Just in time for the holidays, All I Want for Christmas is a surprise ro...
More Sex & the Single Mom
Character: Jess Gradwell
Single, divorced lawyer Jess Gradwell returns in this sequel as she tries to raise her new three-year-old son, Jake, while dealing with her teenage daughter, Sara's, growing carnal desires with a photographer she meets while planning her high school graduation. It all comes to a head when Jess' former flame and father of Jake, Alex Lofton, returns never knowing he has a son out of his and Jess' lustful fling and wants to be a part of her life again, despite Jess not wanting anything to do with A...
Sex & the Single Mom
Character: Jess Gradwell
Jess Gradwell and her teenage daughter boast a superclose relationship. When it comes to sex, however, Mom won't stand for anything less than premarital celibacy. So she gets a pretty healthy dose of her own medicine when she winds up getting pregnant from a brief encounter with a newly single doctor! This new situation poses a major challenge to the mother-daughter dynamic. Tune in to see if Jess and her daughter can rise to the occasion....
Out of Sync
Character: Maggie Stanley
Roger Deacon, a down-and-out record producer, is given the job of making a singing star out of an industry mogul's girlfriend, an attractive but talentless starlet. He discovers a housewife with a powerful singing voice and decides to secretly use her to lip sync the other woman's voice for record recordings as a path to fame for her and him....
The House That Jack Built
Character: Hannah
The film tells the story of Jack Filice Jr., an heir to a Hollywood Italian-American dynasty. As his father, Jack Sr.(played Tony-award winning Joe Mantegna), lays dying, he asks his only son to preserve the family estate, and to never tear it down. The pact is made, but within a year, the cocky young music producer, demolishes the estate and builds his "party palace". On the night of Jack's house warming party, friends and family party into the early morning, unaware of the "monstrous spirit" w...
Heart of the Matter
Character: Gladys
Andie is a cardiologist who is devastated by the accidental death of a patient. As she and his grieving mother overcome their sorrow through forgiveness, they learn that acceptance leads to hope....
Two Voices
Character: Kathleen Anneken
When two women have breast implants for contrasting reasons, they both suffer from frightening side effects. They decide to unite and fight the drug companies who have turned their lives upside down....
Shadow on the Mesa
Character: Mona Eastman
Wes Rawlins is considered one of the best bounty hunters in the West. His life changes when he finds out that his mother is dead and the man responsible is still at large. Wes believes that his long lost father Ray Eastman is responsible and sets out to find him seeking revenge......
Nothing Lasts Forever
Character: Dr. Page Taylor
Story of the personal lives and careers of three female doctors, from different backgrounds and walks of life, who work at a San Francisco county hospital....
Blackout
Character: Caroline Boyle
A young girl returns to her hometown in search of her father, gradually her childhood memories returns; a childhood with incest and violence....
Living Out Loud
Character: Emily Marshall
A wife and mother, diagnosed with breast cancer, decides to truly live her life, which has become comfortable and predictable, and the family must adjust....
Every 9 Seconds
Character: Janet
Domestic violence drama, with Gail O'Grady as a distraught young mother, finding herself stalked by her newly paroled ex and armed with a loaded gun, and Ami Pietz as a journalist volunteering at a crisis hotline to do an "inside" story....
Medusa's Child
Character: Vivian Henry
Fuming over the departure of his wife Vivian and the cutting of his research funding, crazy nuclear scientist Rogers Henry constructs Medusa, a thermonuclear bomb capable of generating a continent-sized electro-magnetic pulse; such EMP could effectively destroy a computer-based society. He dupes Vivian into bringing it to the Pentagon to exact his final revenge on the government, rigging it so it will explode before its count-down if Vivian's pacemaker isn't within fifteen feet of it. Medusa arm...
The Mystery Cruise
Character: Alvirah Meehan
"The Mystery Cruise" centers around best friends and impending business partners, Alvirah Meehan (Gail O'Grady), a lottery winner turned amateur sleuth, and Regan Reilly (Michelle Harrison), a private investigator. After rescuing the diamond-collared pooch of a wealthy socialite (Carol Higgins Clark), the two heroines set off with their spouses to join Regan's mom, Nora Reilly (Colleen Winton), a world famous mystery writer, on a luxurious three day cruise around the San Juan Island off the coas...
Parker Kane
Character: Cindy Ellis
Parker Kane is a former Police Detective turned Private Investigator. When close friend Joey is murdered, leaving behind a briefcase full of money, Kane sets out to find out who was responsible. The trail of clues leads to a major scam involving illegal dumping of toxic waste....
Mothers of the Bride
Character: Debra Wolf
Jenna is getting married, her mother is delighted until Jenna announces she wants to find her birth mother....
Sins of the Preacher
Character: Susan Parker
After the apparent suicide of her daughter, a woman tries to prove that her son-in-law killed her....
An American Carol
Character: Jane Wagstaffe
A cynical anti-American Hollywood filmmaker sets out on a crusade to abolish the 4th of July holiday. He is visited by three spirits who take him on a hilarious journey in an attempt to show him the true meaning of America....
Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo
Character: Claire
Deuce Bigalow is a less than attractive, down on his luck aquarium cleaner. One day he wrecks the house of a gigolo and needs quick money to repair it. The only way he can make it is to become a gigolo himself, taking on an unusual mix of female clients. He encounters a couple of problems, though. He falls in love with one of his unusual clients, and a sleazy police officer is hot on his trail....
Trial by Fire
Character: Paulette Gill
A high-school teacher tries to help one of her troubled male students, who misinterprets her interest....
The Right Girl
Character: Martha Howard
A young woman learns valuable lessons while developing a relationship with her new boss and his young son....
After the Fall
Character: Dr. Susan Miles
A serious accident that leaves a champion horseback rider paralyzed. The movie tells the story of the young rider’s indomitable spirit as she fights to walk again, and the response she gets from her family and friends as she makes her incredible journey...
Mayday
Character: Anne Metz
Twelve miles above the Pacific Ocean, an errant missile strikes a state of the art passenger jet. The flight crew is crippled or dead. Now, defying both nature and man, a handful of survivors must achieve the impossible: Land the airplane....
Love on Ice
Character: Mia Lee
Emily James, now 27 years old and considered a relic in the world of figure skating, gets an improbably shot to reclaim skating glory when a young coach sees greatness in her. Together, they find their love of skating goes beyond the ice....
She's Having a Baby
Character: Laura
Jake and Kristy Briggs are newlyweds. Being young, they are perhaps a bit unprepared for the full reality of marriage and all that it (and their parents) expect from them. Do they want babies? Their parents certainly want them to. Is married life all that there is? Things certainly aren't helped by Jake's friend Davis, who always seems to turn up just in time to put a spanner in the works....
Justice Served
Character: Dr. Helen Florentine
Three individuals whose loved ones were victims of crimes are about to get the chance to re-litigate the crime in a private setting, under the auspices of "Justice", a mysterious voice acting as judge, jury, and executioner....
Lycan
Character: Ms. Fields
When six college kids in a sleepy Southern town are assigned a group project to rediscover a moment in history, one of them sets in motion a horrific fate when he proposes they head into the Georgia backwoods to tackle the legend of Emily Burt, the Talbot County werewolf....
Walking Across Egypt
Character: Elaine Rigsbee
An elderly widow befriends an orphaned juvenile delinquent....
Identity Theft of a Cheerleader
Character: Angie Patterson
A 33-year-old woman takes on a teenage identity and goes back to high school....
Deviant Love
Character: Marlene
In a tailspin after her marriage collapses, Jamie falls for a helpful gentleman whose interest in her welfare hides sinister motives....
Lucky 7
Character: Rachel Myer
Instead of really living her life since losing her mother at age 7, Seattle lawyer Amy Myer sticks to a foolproof 'timeline' her mother drew as a guideline to help plot the course of her life. The timeline, which proves to be accurate in all other respects, predicts that Amy should marry her seventh boyfriend. However, Amy must question her instincts when she feels that her sixth boyfriend is the one she should marry, not the predicted seventh. Now she must decide whether to follow her mother's ...
She Stood Alone: The Tailhook Scandal
Character: Lt. Paula Coughlin
A dramatized account of a female US Naval officer's ordeal of being sexually harassed at a Naval convention and her legal retaliation....
The Three Lives of Karen
Character: Karen Winthrop / Emily Riggs / Cindy Last
An engaged woman has flashbacks of previous identities and a past she cannot recall....
Manipulated
Character: D.A. Diane Conrad
Manipulated is a taut Drama, Mystery, Whodunnit with an ensemble cast. Diane Conrad, district attorney, is under extreme pressure to resolve a case that has politicians as well as the local community on edge. The clock is ticking and the stakes and emotions are running high. Can anyone trust what they see or hear? Why is Detective Scott Keating taking the biggest gamble of his career ? With evidence in short supply, and the personal and professional lives of all concerned unraveling, can you bel...
People Like Us
Character: Rebecca Bailey
When a wealthy scriptwriter and socialite's daughter is murdered, he feels let down by the courts, and so decides to use his powerful position to enable his own form of justice....