Known For
Acting
Birthday
June 16, 1953
Place of Birth
Sumatra, Indonesia
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.
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Known For - Movies
Sully
as Diane Higgins
Jack and Jill
as Bitsy Simmons
Seabiscuit
as Annie Howard
Jungle 2 Jungle
as Jan Kempster
French Exit
as Mme Reynard
Witch Hunt
as Trudy
Perry Mason: The Case of the All-Star Assassin
as D.A. Barbara August
National Lampoon's Senior Trip
as Miss Tracy Milford
Perry Mason: The Case of the Musical Murder
as D.A. Barbara August
Women of Valor
as Lt. Katherine R. Grace
Known For - TV Shows
Grey's Anatomy
as Donna Kaufman
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
as Brooke Thornburg
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
as Dora Pomerantz
Seinfeld
as Patrice
Desperate Housewives
as Alma Hodge
ER
as Joi Abbott
Glee
as Rose Pillsbury
Frasier
as Peggy
Young Sheldon
as Victoria MacElroy
The West Wing
as Tawny Cryer