Valerie Mahaffey

Biography

Valerie Mahaffey (born June 16, 1953) is 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. Mahaffey also appeared in a number of movies, including Senior Trip (1995), Jungle 2 Jungle (1997), Jack and Jill (2011), Sully (2016), and most notably French Exit (2020), for which she received critical acclaim and an Independent Spirit Award nomination. Description above from the Wikipedia article Valerie Mahaffey, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Known For

Grey's Anatomy

as Donna Kaufman

Sully

as Diane Higgins

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit

as Brooke Thornburg

Young Sheldon

as Victoria MacElroy

Jack and Jill

as Bitsy Simmons

Seinfeld

as Patrice

Desperate Housewives

as Alma Hodge

The Man in the High Castle

as Susan

CSI: Crime Scene Investigation

as Dora Pomerantz

Seabiscuit

as Annie Howard