Gail Strickland
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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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Fotos
Películas (42)
My Apocalypse
2008 · Victoria Eastman
Life of the Party: The Pamela Harriman Story
1998 · Betsey Cushing Roosevelt Whitney
The American President
1995 · Esther MacInerney
How to Make an American Quilt
1995 · The Mrs.
A Mother's Prayer
1995 · Ruth
When a Man Loves a Woman
1994 · Pam
Last Time Out
1994 · Becky Davis
Remember
1993 · Amanda
Three of Hearts
1993 · Yvonne
Silent Cries
1993 · Roberta Hampton
Spies
1993 · Mrs. Mills
The Man in the Moon
1991 · Marie Foster
Hyper Sapien: People from Another Star
1986
Protocol
1984 · Mrs. St. John
Oxford Blues
1984 · Las Vegas Lady
Uncommon Valor
1983 · Helen Rhodes
Lies
1983 · Jessica Brenner
Starflight: The Plane That Couldn't Land
1983 · Nancy Gilliam
Life of the Party: The Story of Beatrice
1982 · Abbie
Amy and the Angel
1982 · Mrs. Watson
The Six of Us
1982
Eleanor, First Lady of the World
1982 · Anna Roosevelt
My Body, My Child
1982 · Adele
A Matter of Life and Death
1981 · Mary Coggins
Rape and Marriage: The Rideout Case
1980 · Jean Christensen
King Crab
1980 · Vicky
The Gathering, Part II
1979 · Peggy
Letters from Frank
1979 · Marlene
Norma Rae
1979 · Bonnie Mae
Who'll Stop the Rain
1978 · Charmian
Ski Lift to Death
1978 · Vicki Gordon
The President's Mistress
1978 · Gwen Bowers
A Love Affair: The Eleanor and Lou Gehrig Story
1978 · Dorothy
The Gathering
1977 · Peggy
One on One
1977 · B.J. Rudolph
The Baron
1977 · Samantha - Wasp Lady
Bound for Glory
1976 · Pauline
Bittersweet Love
1976 · Roz
The Dark Side of Innocence
1976 · Heather
The Drowning Pool
1975 · Mavis Kilbourne
My Father's House
1975 · Paula
Ellery Queen: Too Many Suspects
1975 · Gail Stevens
Series (42)
First Monday
2002 · Deborah Szwark
Providence
1999 · Evelyn Lombard
Profiler
1996 · Nurse Melinda Moscone
The Pretender
1996 · Grace Carter-Welman
JAG
1995 · Bartlett
ER
1994 · Renee Spielman
Chicago Hope
1994 · Shirley Fleming
Walker, Texas Ranger
1993 · Dr. Janet Monroe
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
1993 · Alixus
Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman
1993 · Olive Davis
Melrose Place
1992 · Katherine Andrews
The Burden of Proof
1992 · Fiona Cawley
Civil Wars
1991 · Lisa Wharton
La Ley y el Orden
1990 · Ellen Gorham
Seinfeld
1989 · Jocelyn Landis
Murphy Brown
1988 · Support Group Counselor
HeartBeat
1988 · Marilyn McGrath
What a Country!
1986 · Principal Joan Courtney
The Insiders
1985
Spenser: For Hire
1985
Murder, She Wrote
1984 · Kate Hollander, Edith Peabody
Highway to Heaven
1984 · Billie Hardwood
Night Court
1984 · Sheila Gardiner
Hardcastle and McCormick
1983 · Agatha 'Aggy' Wainwright
Family Ties
1982 · Dorothy Canell
Cagney & Lacey
1982
Fame
1982
Darkroom
1981 · Helen
Walking Tall
1981
Hill Street Blues
1981 · Gail Kennedy
Trapper John, M.D.
1979
Dallas
1978 · Veronica Robinson
Alice
1976
Harry O
1974 · Laura Mayo
Kojak
1973 · Monica
Police Story
1973
Barnaby Jones
1973 · Susan Taylor
M*A*S*H
1972 · Capt. Helen Whitfield
The Bob Newhart Show
1972 · Courtney Simpson
The Rookies
1972
The Mary Tyler Moore Show
1970 · Sister Ann Hutchins
Hawaii Five-O
1969 · Elena Lewis, Forbes