Actor
Valerie Mahaffey
June 16, 1953 · Sumatra, Indonesia
Valerie Mahaffey (June 16, 1953 – May 30, 2025) was an American actress and producer. She began her career starring in the NBC daytime soap opera The Doctors (1979–81), for which she received a nomination for the Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series. In 1992, Mahaffey won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series for her role in the CBS drama series Northern Exposure. She later won fame through her portrayal of extroverted and friendly but ultimately insane women on the television shows Wings, Desperate Housewives, Devious Maids and Big Sky.
Notable work
8.2Grey's Anatomy (2005)
as Donna Kaufman
7.2Sully (2016)
as Diane Higgins
8Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (1999)
as Brooke Thornburg
8Young Sheldon (2017)
as Victoria MacElroy
8.3Seinfeld (1989)
as Patrice
4.4Jack and Jill (2011)
as Bitsy Simmons
7.9Desperate Housewives (2004)
as Alma Hodge
7.5The Man in the High Castle (2015)
as Susan
7.6CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (2000)
as Dora Pomerantz
6.8Glee (2009)
as Rose Pillsbury
7.1Seabiscuit (2003)
as Annie Howard
7.8ER (1994)
as Joi Abbott
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