Valerie Mahaffey
Known For
Acting
Born
1953-06-16 in Sumatra, Indonesia
Died
2025-05-30
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.
Most Known For
Grey's Anatomy
as Donna Kaufman
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
as Brooke Thornburg
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
as Dora Pomerantz
Seinfeld
as Patrice
Young Sheldon
as Victoria MacElroy
Desperate Housewives
as Alma Hodge
The West Wing
as Tawny Cryer
Frasier
as Peggy
Glee
as Rose Pillsbury
ER
as Joi Abbott
Cheers
as Valerie Hill
Quantum Leap
as Mary Greely
Boston Legal
as Mary Winston
Private Practice
as Marilyn Sullivan
The Man in the High Castle
as Susan
The Mindy Project
as Juliet
Without a Trace
as Bonnie Toland
Hannah Montana
as Ms. Jameson
L.A. Law
as Andrea Rossoff
Northern Exposure
as Eve