Valerie Mahaffey

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Valerie Mahaffey

Valerie Mahaffey after the 1992 Emmy Awards
Born Valerie Mahaffey
June 16, 1953 (1953-06-16) (age 54)
Sumatra, Indonesia
Spouse(s) Joseph Kell
(?-present) 1 child

Valerie Mahaffey, (born on June 16, 1953 in Sumatra, Indonesia, but raised in Austin, Texas, United States) is an Emmy Award winning American actress. She won her Emmy for her work on Northern Exposure. She later won fame through her portrayal of extroverted and friendly but ultimately insane women on the television shows Wings and Desperate Housewives.

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Valerie Mahaffey has also starred in films including Jungle 2 Jungle.

She had a role in a 1991 episode of Seinfeld entitled “The Truth”, where she played George Costanza’s girlfriend.

Valerie appeared in a 1991 episode of Cheers entitled Achilles Hill, the landlord will forfeit rent if Sam avoids his daughter (Valerie).

She played the role of Sandy Cooper in three episodes of the 1990s’ sitcom Wings. Sandy Cooper was a friend of Joe, Brian, and Helen from high school. She had an insane obsessive crush on Joe, but he was unable to convince anyone else of this because she acted completely normal except when she is left alone with Joe. She would appear at different points and carefully plan her “life with Joe” at points when he was alone. Such life points included a reenacted high school prom, wedding, and first baby.

Mahaffey originated the role of Malone in the Designing Women spin-off Women of the House, substituting for Julie Hagerty, who was committed to another project. Hagerty eventually joined the show, taped two episodes and resigned. Mahaffey returned for one additional episode, then the character abruptly vanished without explanation.

She played in Quantum Leap, season 3, episode 5, entitled The Boogieman, October 26, 1990, with Scott Bakula.

Mahaffey has won fame in the early 2000s playing the role of Alma Hodge in Desperate Housewives, a psychotic woman who is so desperate to have a baby that she is prepared to rape her ex-husband, Orson Hodge (who has re-married), in order to get pregnant.

In 2007, she guest starred on Private Practice, as Marilyn Sullivan, a mother who physically abused her daughter in the episode In Which Charlotte Goes Down the Rabbit Hole.

[edit] Personal life

She is married to Joseph Kell, with whom she has one child.

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