Gail Strickland
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- May 18, 1945 (age 81)
- Birthplace
- Birmingham, Alabama, USA
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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Gail Strickland, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Filmography
My Apocalypse
Movie · as Victoria Eastman
First Monday
TV · as Deborah Szwark · 13 eps
Providence
TV · as Evelyn Lombard · 1 ep
Life of the Party: The Pamela Harriman Story
Movie · as Betsey Cushing Roosevelt Whitney
The Pretender
TV · as Grace Carter-Welman · 1 ep
Profiler
TV · as Nurse Melinda Moscone · 1 ep
The American President
Movie · as Esther MacInerney
How to Make an American Quilt
Movie · as The Mrs.
A Mother's Prayer
Movie · as Ruth
JAG
TV · as Bartlett · 1 ep
Last Time Out
Movie · as Becky Davis
When a Man Loves a Woman
Movie · as Pam
Chicago Hope
TV · as Shirley Fleming · 1 ep
ER
TV · as Renee Spielman · 1 ep
Three of Hearts
Movie · as Yvonne
Silent Cries
Movie · as Roberta Hampton
Remember
Movie · as Amanda
Spies
Movie · as Mrs. Mills
Walker, Texas Ranger
TV · as Dr. Janet Monroe · 1 ep
Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman
TV · as Olive Davis · 11 eps
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
TV · as Alixus · 1 ep
Melrose Place
TV · as Katherine Andrews · 6 eps
The Burden of Proof
TV · as Fiona Cawley · 2 eps
The Man in the Moon
Movie · as Marie Foster
Civil Wars
TV · as Lisa Wharton · 1 ep
Law & Order
TV · as Ellen Gorham · 1 ep
Seinfeld
TV · as Jocelyn Landis · 2 eps
HeartBeat
TV · as Marilyn McGrath · 18 eps
Murphy Brown
TV · as Support Group Counselor · 1 ep
Hyper Sapien: People from Another Star
Movie
What a Country!
TV · as Principal Joan Courtney · 24 eps
Spenser: For Hire
TV · 1 ep
The Insiders
TV · 13 eps
Oxford Blues
Movie · as Las Vegas Lady
Protocol
Movie · as Mrs. St. John
Murder, She Wrote
TV · as Kate Hollander, Edith Peabody · 1 ep
Highway to Heaven
TV · as Billie Hardwood · 1 ep
Night Court
TV · as Sheila Gardiner · 1 ep
Uncommon Valor
Movie · as Helen Rhodes
Starflight: The Plane That Couldn't Land
Movie · as Nancy Gilliam
Lies
Movie · as Jessica Brenner
Hardcastle and McCormick
TV · as Agatha 'Aggy' Wainwright · 1 ep
Amy and the Angel
Movie · as Mrs. Watson
Eleanor, First Lady of the World
Movie · as Anna Roosevelt
My Body, My Child
Movie · as Adele
Life of the Party: The Story of Beatrice
Movie · as Abbie
The Six of Us
Movie
Family Ties
TV · as Dorothy Canell · 1 ep
Fame
TV · 1 ep
Cagney & Lacey
TV · 3 eps
A Matter of Life and Death
Movie · as Mary Coggins
Hill Street Blues
TV · as Gail Kennedy · 1 ep
Walking Tall
TV · 1 ep
Darkroom
TV · as Helen · 1 ep
King Crab
Movie · as Vicky
Rape and Marriage: The Rideout Case
Movie · as Jean Christensen
Norma Rae
Movie · as Bonnie Mae
The Gathering, Part II
Movie · as Peggy
Letters from Frank
Movie · as Marlene
Trapper John, M.D.
TV · 1 ep
A Love Affair: The Eleanor and Lou Gehrig Story
Movie · as Dorothy
Who'll Stop the Rain
Movie · as Charmian
Ski Lift to Death
Movie · as Vicki Gordon
The President's Mistress
Movie · as Gwen Bowers
Dallas
TV · as Veronica Robinson · 3 eps
The Gathering
Movie · as Peggy
The Baron
Movie · as Samantha - Wasp Lady
One on One
Movie · as B.J. Rudolph
Bound for Glory
Movie · as Pauline
Bittersweet Love
Movie · as Roz
The Dark Side of Innocence
Movie · as Heather
Alice
TV · 1 ep
The Drowning Pool
Movie · as Mavis Kilbourne
Ellery Queen: Too Many Suspects
Movie · as Gail Stevens
My Father's House
Movie · as Paula
Harry O
TV · as Laura Mayo · 1 ep
Kojak
TV · as Monica · 1 ep
Police Story
TV · 1 ep
Barnaby Jones
TV · as Susan Taylor · 1 ep
M*A*S*H
TV · as Capt. Helen Whitfield · 1 ep
The Rookies
TV · 1 ep
The Bob Newhart Show
TV · as Courtney Simpson · 2 eps
The Mary Tyler Moore Show
TV · as Sister Ann Hutchins · 1 ep
Hawaii Five-O
TV · as Elena Lewis, Forbes · 1 ep