Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Birthdate
1953-06-16
Day of Death
2025-05-30
Place of Birth
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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Valerie Mahaffey, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Filmography (27)
The 8th Day
2025
French Exit
2021
The Witch Files
2018
No Pay, Nudity
2016
Sully
2016
If I Were You
2013
Crazy Eyes
2012
Jack and Jill
2011
Summer Eleven
2010
A Previous Engagement
2009
My First Wedding
2006
Seabiscuit
2003
Par 6
2002
No Ordinary Baby
2001
