Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Gender
Female
June 16, 1953
Died
May 30, 2025 (71 years old)
Sumatra, Indonesia
Valerie Mahaffey
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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Known For
Acting
French Exit
2021
Big Sky
2020
Dead to Me
2019
The Witch Files
2018
Young Sheldon
2017
Sully
2016
Impastor
2015
The Man in the High Castle
2015
Devious Maids
2013
If I Were You
2013
Monday Mornings
2013
The Mindy Project
2012
Crazy Eyes
2012
The Exes
2011
Jack and Jill
2011
Hart of Dixie
2011
Franklin & Bash
2011
Workaholics
2011
Better With You
2010
Raising Hope
2010
Glee
2009
United States of Tara
2009
Private Practice
2007
Raines
2007