Gail O’Grady Biography, Age, Height, Husband

Gail O’Grady Biography, Age, Height, Weight, Husband, Family, and Career

Gail O’Grady is a well-known American actress and producer. She became famous for her roles on TV, especially as Helen Pryor in the NBC drama American Dreams and Donna Abandando in the ABC police show NYPD Blue. Gail has also starred in many TV movies and has been nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award three times for her great acting.

Hallmark Channel hired Gail O’Grady for her first Hallmark movie All I Want for Christmas in 2008, where she worked as lead character of  Sara Armstrong with popular actors Greg Germannand Robert Mailhouse.

Personal Details

Physical Appearance

Personal Life (Family, Friends, Boyfriends, Children)

Early life, Family, and Relationship

Gail O’Grady was born on January 23, 1963, and was born in Detroit, Michigan, USA. Gail was born to her parents Jim O’Grady and Jan O’Grady. Her father Jim O’Grady was a financial planner.

She grew up in Wheaton, Illinois and she got graduated from Wheaton North High School in 1981. Gail was in a few commercials before leaving for Los Angeles in the year 1986 .

Boyfriend, Husband, Marriage

Gail was married and divorced six times. She after breaking up with an artist named Robert Claypool. Actress Gail sought a restraining order against him in the year of 1995 and claimed he was stalking her though she didn’t get it.

Later he responded by suing her for defamation, libel, and slander. In the year 2004 before her sixth marriage to John Stamatakis, O’Grady gave birth to her first child with her ex-boyfriend Chris Byers.

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Career, Struggle, Turning Point, and Success

Gail O’Grady started her career as a model for Montgomery Ward being an actor for a lot of Commercials. She was playing the neighbor of Michael J. Fox in one where he chases down a Diet Pepsi. As time went on, she started having guest appearances frequently as a villain.

She had her very big debut in the year 1988 in She’s Having a Baby, a 1988 romantic comedy, and she also was cast for two episodes on China Beach an ABC drama. She has guest starred for several other shows and was in tv shows and independent movies too.

Her very first major role was in the ABC police drama NYPD Blue as Donna Abandando. She also played the big-haired squad secretary starting from 1993 to 1996 and every year she received an Emmy Award nomination for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series.

She also won the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series in the year of 1995.

Complete list of Gail O’Grady Hallmark Movies

• Gail O’Grady works in the Hallmark Movie Love in the Clouds-The Story is about- Brooklyn is a reporter who goes to the Balloon Fiesta to meet Jared, a hot air balloon pilot. Jared gives romantic balloon rides to couples, but he doesn’t let himself fall in love.

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Gail O’Grady Biography (Age, Height, Weight, Husband, Family, Career & More)