Gail Strickland
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- May 18, 1945 (age 81)
- Place of birth
- Birmingham, Alabama, USA
- Credits
- 84
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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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Known for
Filmography
My Apocalypse
2008Movie
Victoria Eastman
First Monday
2002TV
Deborah Szwark
Providence
1999TV
Evelyn Lombard
Life of the Party: The Pamela Harriman Story
1998Movie
Betsey Cushing Roosevelt Whitney
Profiler
1996TV
Nurse Melinda Moscone
The Pretender
1996TV
Grace Carter-Welman
The American President
1995Movie
Esther MacInerney
How to Make an American Quilt
1995Movie
The Mrs.
JAG
1995TV
Bartlett
A Mother's Prayer
1995Movie
Ruth
ER
1994TV
Renee Spielman
Chicago Hope
1994TV
Shirley Fleming
When a Man Loves a Woman
1994Movie
Pam
Last Time Out
1994Movie
Becky Davis
Remember
1993Movie
Amanda
Three of Hearts
1993Movie
Yvonne
Walker, Texas Ranger
1993TV
Dr. Janet Monroe
Silent Cries
1993Movie
Roberta Hampton
Spies
1993Movie
Mrs. Mills
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
1993TV
Alixus
Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman
1993TV
Olive Davis
Melrose Place
1992TV
Katherine Andrews
The Burden of Proof
1992TV
Fiona Cawley
Civil Wars
1991TV
Lisa Wharton
The Man in the Moon
1991Movie
Marie Foster
Law & Order
1990TV
Ellen Gorham
Seinfeld
1989TV
Jocelyn Landis
Murphy Brown
1988TV
Support Group Counselor
HeartBeat
1988TV
Marilyn McGrath
Hyper Sapien: People from Another Star
1986Movie
What a Country!
1986TV
Principal Joan Courtney
The Insiders
1985TV
Spenser: For Hire
1985TV
Protocol
1984Movie
Mrs. St. John
Murder, She Wrote
1984TV
Kate Hollander, Edith Peabody
Highway to Heaven
1984TV
Billie Hardwood
Oxford Blues
1984Movie
Las Vegas Lady
Night Court
1984TV
Sheila Gardiner
Uncommon Valor
1983Movie
Helen Rhodes
Hardcastle and McCormick
1983TV
Agatha 'Aggy' Wainwright
Lies
1983Movie
Jessica Brenner
Starflight: The Plane That Couldn't Land
1983Movie
Nancy Gilliam
Life of the Party: The Story of Beatrice
1982Movie
Abbie
Amy and the Angel
1982Movie
Mrs. Watson
Family Ties
1982TV
Dorothy Canell
The Six of Us
1982Movie
Eleanor, First Lady of the World
1982Movie
Anna Roosevelt
My Body, My Child
1982Movie
Adele
Cagney & Lacey
1982TV
Fame
1982TV
Darkroom
1981TV
Helen
Walking Tall
1981TV
Hill Street Blues
1981TV
Gail Kennedy
A Matter of Life and Death
1981Movie
Mary Coggins
Rape and Marriage: The Rideout Case
1980Movie
Jean Christensen
King Crab
1980Movie
Vicky
The Gathering, Part II
1979Movie
Peggy
Letters from Frank
1979Movie
Marlene
Trapper John, M.D.
1979TV
Norma Rae
1979Movie
Bonnie Mae
Who'll Stop the Rain
1978Movie
Charmian
Dallas
1978TV
Veronica Robinson
Ski Lift to Death
1978Movie
Vicki Gordon
The President's Mistress
1978Movie
Gwen Bowers
A Love Affair: The Eleanor and Lou Gehrig Story
1978Movie
Dorothy
The Gathering
1977Movie
Peggy
One on One
1977Movie
B.J. Rudolph
The Baron
1977Movie
Samantha - Wasp Lady
Bound for Glory
1976Movie
Pauline
Bittersweet Love
1976Movie
Roz
Alice
1976TV
The Dark Side of Innocence
1976Movie
Heather
The Drowning Pool
1975Movie
Mavis Kilbourne
My Father's House
1975Movie
Paula
Ellery Queen: Too Many Suspects
1975Movie
Gail Stevens
Harry O
1974TV
Laura Mayo
Kojak
1973TV
Monica
Police Story
1973TV
Barnaby Jones
1973TV
Susan Taylor
M*A*S*H
1972TV
Capt. Helen Whitfield
The Bob Newhart Show
1972TV
Courtney Simpson
The Rookies
1972TV
The Mary Tyler Moore Show
1970TV
Sister Ann Hutchins
Hawaii Five-O
1969TV
Elena Lewis, Forbes