Valerie Mahaffey
Acting
Born 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. 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.
Filmography
- 2025The 8th Day — Landon Mooney
- 2021French Exit — Mme Reynard
- Big Sky — Helen Pergman
- Dead to Me — Lorna Harding
- 2018The Witch Files — Claire's Mom
- Young Sheldon — Victoria MacElroy
- 2016No Pay, Nudity — Lisa Zweibal
- 2016Sully — Diane Higgins
- Impastor — Susie Kerry
- The Man in the High Castle — Susan
- Devious Maids — Olivia Rice
- 2013If I Were You — Lydia
- Kirstie — Victoria
- Monday Mornings — Fran Horowitz
- 2012Crazy Eyes — Zach's Mother
- The Mindy Project — Juliet
- Franklin & Bash — Julie
- Hart of Dixie — Mae Ellen Waterloo
- 2011Jack and Jill — Bitsy Simmons
- The Exes — Anne
- Workaholics — Celeste
- Better With You — Ariel
- Raising Hope — Margine
- 2010Summer Eleven
- 2009A Previous Engagement — Grace
- Glee — Rose Pillsbury
- United States of Tara — Dr. Ocean
- Private Practice — Marilyn Sullivan
- Raines — Arlene
- Crumbs — Carolyn Pierce
- Hannah Montana — Ms. Jameson
- 2006My First Wedding — Grace
- Grey's Anatomy — Donna Kaufman
- Out of Practice
- Boston Legal — Mary Winston
- Desperate Housewives — Alma Hodge
- 2003Seabiscuit — Annie Howard
- Good Morning, Miami — Sara
- 2002Par 6 — Pecan Hegelman
- Without a Trace — Bonnie Toland
- Night Visions — Sally Osgoode (segment "Neighborhood Watch")
- 2001No Ordinary Baby — Virginia Hytner
- That's My Bush! — Janet Rove
- CSI: Crime Scene Investigation — Dora Pomerantz
- Judging Amy — Ms. Morlock
- Law & Order: Special Victims Unit — Brooke Thornburg
- The West Wing — Tawny Cryer
- Buddy Faro
- Ally McBeal — Dr. Sally Muggins
- 1997Dinner at Fred's — Susan
- George & Leo
- 1997Jungle 2 Jungle — Jan Kempster
- Caroline in the City — Alicia Crawford-Lane
- 1995National Lampoon's Senior Trip — Miss Tracy Milford
- Women of the House — Jennifer Malone
- ER — Joi Abbott
- 1994Witch Hunt — Trudy
- Frasier — Peggy
- 1993They — Chris Samuels
- The Powers That Be — Caitlyn Van Horne
- 1992Till Death Us Do Part — Gail Bugliosi
- Baby Talk
- Dream On — Helen Harley
- Northern Exposure — Eve
- Wings — Sandy Cooper
- 1989Perry Mason: The Case of the All-Star Assassin — D.A. Barbara August
- 1989Perry Mason: The Case of the Musical Murder — D.A. Barbara August
- Quantum Leap — Mary Greely
- Seinfeld — Patrice
- Murphy's Law
- 1987Her Secret Life — Becky
- Fresno — Tiffany Kensington
- L.A. Law — Andrea Rossoff
- 1986Mr. Bill's Real Life Adventures — Mrs. Bill
- 1986The Rise and Rise of Daniel Rocket — Alice
- 1986Women of Valor — Lt. Katherine R. Grace
- American Playhouse — Alice, Mrs. Stockman
- Cheers — Valerie Hill
- Newhart — Jolene
- Tales of the Unexpected — Jane
- 1977Tell Me My Name — Alexandra / Sarah
- GRQ the Movie — Aunt Emily