
Gail Strickland
Biography
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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 (39 movies)

A Love Affair: The Eleanor and Lou Gehrig Story
1978

Amy and the Angel
1982

Three of Hearts
1993

Oxford Blues
1984

Who'll Stop the Rain
1978

The American President
1995

The Drowning Pool
1975

How to Make an American Quilt
1995

Uncommon Valor
1983

A Mother's Prayer
1995

Norma Rae
1979

Bound for Glory
1976

The Gathering, Part II
1979

Protocol
1984

Starflight: The Plane That Couldn't Land
1983

The Man in the Moon
1991

King Crab
1980

Hyper Sapien: People from Another Star
1986

Silent Cries
1993

The Gathering
1977

Bittersweet Love
1976

Eleanor, First Lady of the World
1982

Ellery Queen: Too Many Suspects
1975

The Dark Side of Innocence
1976

Remember
1993

Last Time Out
1994

My Apocalypse
2008

Lies
1983

The Baron
1977

My Body, My Child
1982

One on One
1977

Ski Lift to Death
1978

Rape and Marriage: The Rideout Case
1980

The President's Mistress
1978

When a Man Loves a Woman
1994

My Father's House
1975

Spies
1993

Letters from Frank
1979

A Matter of Life and Death
1981
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