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Known For:
Acting
Birthday:
May 18, 1945
Place of Birth:
Birmingham, Alabama, USA
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Gail Strickland
Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
Gail Strickland (born May 18, 1947) is an American character actress.
Strickland was born in Birmingham, Alabama, the daughter of Theodosia and Lynn Strickland, who owned a tire shop. She had featured roles in 1970s films such as Bound for Glory, The Drowning Pool and Norma Rae.
In a memorable Drowning Pool scene, Strickland and Paul Newman are trapped in a room filling with water from floor to ceiling, stripped to their underwear, with no apparent escape.
Strickland appeared on the U.S. Navy series JAG first season episode "War Crimes". She played Ambassador Bartlett, the U.S. ambassador to Peru.
She appeared in the pilot episode of the television series Night Court as the public defender. She guest starred in the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine episode "Paradise" as the character Alixus.
In 1994-1995, she appeared as Ms. Landis of Doubleday in the Seinfeld Season 6 episodes "The Chaperone" and "The Switch".
Strickland played nurse practitioner Marilyn McGrath in the 1988 TV series HeartBeat. This was one of the earliest portrayals of a lesbian character on American network television.
She also had a memorable appearance on the television series M*A*S*H as Captain Helen Whitfield, a nurse in an ongoing battle with alcoholism. She appeared in 11 episodes of Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman from 1993-94 as the character Olive Davis.
She played Esther MacInerney, the wife of A.J. MacInerney (Martin Sheen), Chief of Staff for President Andrew Shepherd (Michael Douglas), in the 1995 blockbuster movie The American President, which also starred Annette Bening, Michael J. Fox, and Richard Dreyfuss.
Strickland was a cast member in the brief run of the 2002 CBS television series First Monday, playing a Supreme Court justice.
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Known For
Filmography
| Year | TV Show | Role |
|---|---|---|
| 2002 | First Monday | Justice Deborah Szwark |
| 1999 | Providence | Evelyn Lombard |
| 1996 | The Pretender | Grace Carter-Welman |
| 1995 | JAG | Bartlett |
| 1994 | Chicago Hope | |
| 1994 | ER | Renee Spielman |
| 1993 | Walker, Texas Ranger | Dr. Janet Monroe |
| 1993 | Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman | Olive Davis |
| 1993 | Star Trek: Deep Space Nine | Alixus |
| 1992 | Melrose Place | Katherine Andrews |
| 1992 | The Burden of Proof | Fiona Cawley |
| 1991 | Civil Wars | Lisa Wharton |
| 1990 | Law & Order | Ellen Gorham |
| 1989 | Seinfeld | Jocelyn Landis |
| 1988 | HeartBeat | Marilyn McGrath |
| 1988 | Murphy Brown | Support Group Counselor |
| 1986 | What a Country! | Principal Joan Courtney |
| 1985 | Spenser: For Hire | |
| 1985 | The Insiders | |
| 1984 | Murder, She Wrote | Kate Hollander |
| 1984 | Highway to Heaven | |
| 1984 | Murder, She Wrote | Edith Peabody |
| 1984 | Night Court | Sheila Gardiner |
| 1983 | Hardcastle and McCormick | Agatha 'Aggy' Wainwright |
| 1982 | Family Ties | Dorothy Canell |
| 1982 | Fame | |
| 1982 | Cagney & Lacey | |
| 1981 | Hill Street Blues | |
| 1981 | Darkroom | |
| 1981 | Walking Tall | |
| 1981 | Hill Street Blues | Gail Kennedy |
| 1979 | Trapper John, M.D. | |
| 1978 | Dallas | Veronica Robinson |
| 1976 | Alice | |
| 1974 | Harry O | Laura Mayo |
| 1973 | Kojak | Monica |
| 1973 | Police Story | |
| 1973 | Barnaby Jones | Susan Taylor |
| 1972 | M*A*S*H | Capt. Helen Whitfield |
| 1972 | The Rookies | |
| 1972 | The Bob Newhart Show | Courtney Simpson |
| 1970 | The Mary Tyler Moore Show | Sister Ann Hutchins |
| 1968 | Hawaii Five-O | Elena Lewis |
| 1968 | Hawaii Five-O | Forbes |