Gail Ann O'Grady (born January 23, 1963) is an American television actress.
O'Grady was born in Detroit, Michigan, the daughter of Jan and Jim O'Grady, a financial planner. She was raised in Wheaton, Illinois, and graduated from Wheaton North High School in 1981. Married and divorced six times, O'Grady gave birth to her first child, son Michael Colton, in 2004.
Her first major role was as Donna Abandando on the police drama NYPD Blue. O'Grady pla...
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Gail Ann O'Grady (born January 23, 1963) is an American television actress.
O'Grady was born in Detroit, Michigan, the daughter of Jan and Jim O'Grady, a financial planner. She was raised in Wheaton, Illinois, and graduated from Wheaton North High School in 1981. Married and divorced six times, O'Grady gave birth to her first child, son Michael Colton, in 2004.
Her first major role was as Donna Abandando on the police drama NYPD Blue. O'Grady played the big-haired squad secretary from 1993 to 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 as Mandi, Kandi's mom in "Always a Bridesmaid, Never a Burro"; and also appeared in the final episode of Designing Women playing the trophy wife of a business rival of...
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