Valerie Mahaffey
Birthday: 1953-06-16 | Place of Birth: Sumatra, IndonesiaValerie 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.
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as Landon Mooney
as Landon Mooney
as Mme Reynard
as Claire's Mom
as Diane Higgins
as Lisa Zweibal
as Lydia
as Zach's Mother
as Grace
as Grace
as Pecan Hegelman
as Virginia Hytner
as Jan Kempster
as Susan
as Miss Tracy Milford
as Trudy
as Chris Samuels
as Caitlyn Van Horne
as Becky
as Lt. Katherine R. Grace
as Mrs. Bill
as Tiffany Kensington
as Alexandra / Sarah
as Aunt Emily
