Gail Strickland

Acting

Born May 18, 1945, Birmingham, Alabama, USA

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.​

Filmography

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