Gail Strickland
Acting
Born 1945-05-18
Birmingham, Alabama, USA
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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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Acting
50 credits
Law & Order
Seinfeld
Chicago Hope
Dallas
JAG
Murder, She Wrote
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
Melrose Place
ER
The Mary Tyler Moore Show
M*A*S*H
Hawaii Five-O
Hill Street Blues
Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman
Night Court
Murphy Brown
Family Ties
Highway to Heaven
The Bob Newhart Show
The Pretender
Walker, Texas Ranger
Profiler
Barnaby Jones
Providence
Kojak
Hardcastle and McCormick
Harry O
Civil Wars
First Monday
Darkroom
The American President
When a Man Loves a Woman
HeartBeat
The Man in the Moon
Uncommon Valor
How to Make an American Quilt
The Drowning Pool
Oxford Blues
The Burden of Proof
What a Country!
Norma Rae
Protocol
Bound for Glory
Who'll Stop the Rain
Starflight: The Plane That Couldn't Land
Three of Hearts
My Body, My Child
Spies
Lies
Rape and Marriage: The Rideout Case
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10 credits
Alice
Cagney & Lacey
Fame
The Rookies
Trapper John, M.D.
Police Story
Spenser: For Hire
The Insiders
Walking Tall
Hyper Sapien: People from Another Star
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