Valerie Mahaffey
Actor
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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Filmography
Jack and Jill
as Bitsy Simmons 2011
Seabiscuit
as Annie Howard 2003
Jungle 2 Jungle
as Jan Kempster 1997
French Exit
as Mme Reynard 2021
National Lampoon's Senior Trip
as Miss Tracy Milford 1995
Witch Hunt
as Trudy 1994
If I Were You
as Lydia 2013
The Witch Files
as Claire's Mom 2018
Crazy Eyes
as Zach's Mother 2012
They
as Chris Samuels 1993
My First Wedding
as Grace 2006
Women of Valor
as Lt. Katherine R. Grace 1986
Perry Mason: The Case of the Musical Murder
as D.A. Barbara August 1989
Summer Eleven
2010
A Previous Engagement
as Grace 2009
Perry Mason: The Case of the All-Star Assassin
as D.A. Barbara August 1989