Valerie Mahaffey is an American character actress and producer, best known for her Emmy Award-winning portrayal of Eve on CBS’ Northern Exposure. Other television credits include Olivia Rice on Lifetime’s Devious Maids and Alma Hodge on ABC’s Desperate Housewives.

Film credits include Jack and Jill, Seabiscuit, Jungle 2 Jungle, and National Lampoon’s Senior Trip.

Theatre credits include Valerie’s Broadway debut as Catherine Howard/Queen Claude of France in Rex (Lunt-Fontanne Theatre), Annie/Annette in The Loves of Anatol and Rebecca in Scenes and Revelations (Circle in the Square Theatre), Jean MacMillan in Play Memory (Longacre Theatre), Lilly/Jessie/Others in Fearless Frank (Princess Theatre), and Lucy Seward in Dracula (Martin Beck Theatre); and Off-Broadway, as Lesley in Her Big Chance as part of Talking Heads (Minetta Lane Theatre), Emily Dickinson in Romance Language (Playwrights Horizons), Patient Griselda/Kit/Shona in Top Girls (Newman Theatre), Miss Banton in Twelve Dreams (Martinson Hall), and Sarah in Translations (Stage 73).