Known For
Acting
Born
Jun 16, 1953
Died
May 30, 2025
Place of Birth
Sumatra, Indonesia
Credits
82 titles
Valerie Mahaffey
Biography
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.
Known For
Filmography
The 8th Day
Landon Mooney
French Exit
Mme Reynard
Big Sky
Helen Pergman
Dead to Me
Lorna Harding
The Witch Files
Claire's Mom
Young Sheldon
Victoria MacElroy
No Pay, Nudity
Lisa Zweibal
Sully
Diane Higgins
Impastor
Susie Kerry
The Man in the High Castle
Susan
Kirstie
Victoria
Devious Maids
Olivia Rice
If I Were You
Lydia
Monday Mornings
Fran Horowitz
The Mindy Project
Juliet
Crazy Eyes
Zach's Mother
The Exes
Anne
Jack and Jill
Bitsy Simmons
Hart of Dixie
Mae Ellen Waterloo
Franklin & Bash
Julie
Workaholics
Celeste
Better With You
Ariel
Raising Hope
Margine
Summer Eleven
A Previous Engagement
Grace
Glee
Rose Pillsbury
United States of Tara
Dr. Ocean
Private Practice
Marilyn Sullivan
Raines
Arlene
My First Wedding
Grace
Hannah Montana
Ms. Jameson
Crumbs
Carolyn Pierce
Out of Practice
Grey's Anatomy
Donna Kaufman
Desperate Housewives
Alma Hodge
Boston Legal
Mary Winston
Seabiscuit
Annie Howard
Without a Trace
Bonnie Toland
Good Morning, Miami
Sara
Par 6
Pecan Hegelman
No Ordinary Baby
Virginia Hytner
Night Visions
Sally Osgoode (segment "Neighborhood Watch")
That's My Bush!
Janet Rove
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
Dora Pomerantz
The West Wing
Tawny Cryer
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
Brooke Thornburg
Judging Amy
Ms. Morlock
Buddy Faro
Dinner at Fred's
Susan
George & Leo