Gail Strickland

Actor May 18 (age 80) Birmingham, Alabama, USA 1968–2008 (40 year career)

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Biography

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 escap…

Known For

Film

The American President

Esther MacInerney

Film

The Man in the Moon

Marie Foster

Film

When a Man Loves a Woman

Pam

Film

Norma Rae

Bonnie Mae

Film

Uncommon Valor

Helen Rhodes

Film

How to Make an American Quilt

The Mrs.

Film

The Drowning Pool

Mavis

Film

Bound for Glory

Pauline

Filmography

Acting (85)

Movies (42)

My Apocalypse

2008

as Victoria Eastman

4.8

Life of the Party: The Pamela Harriman Story

1998

as Betsey Cushing Roosevelt Whitney

A Mother's Prayer

1995

as Ruth

8.5

The American President

1995

as Esther MacInerney

6.5

How to Make an American Quilt

1995

as The Mrs.

6.4

When a Man Loves a Woman

1994

as Pam

6.6

Last Time Out

1994

as Becky Davis

Spies

1993

as Mrs. Mills

Remember

1993

as Amanda

Three of Hearts

as Yvonne

Silent Cries

as Roberta Hampton

The Man in the Moon

as Marie Foster

Hyper Sapien: People from Another Star

Oxford Blues

as Las Vegas Lady

Protocol

as Mrs. St. John

Uncommon Valor

as Helen Rhodes

Lies

as Jessica Brenner

Starflight: The Plane That Couldn't Land

1983

as Nancy Gilliam

4.9

Eleanor, First Lady of the World

as Anna Roosevelt

The Six of Us

My Body, My Child

as Adele

Amy and the Angel

as Mrs. Watson

Life of the Party: The Story of Beatrice

1982

as Abbie

9.0

A Matter of Life and Death

1981

as Mary Coggins

Rape and Marriage: The Rideout Case

1980

as Jean Christensen

5.5

King Crab

1980

as Vicky

Norma Rae

1979

as Bonnie Mae

7.2

The Gathering, Part II

1979

as Peggy

2.0

Letters from Frank

1979

as Marlene

Who'll Stop the Rain

1978

as Charmian

6.5

A Love Affair: The Eleanor and Lou Gehrig Story

1978

as Dorothy

9.0

The President's Mistress

1978

as Gwen Bowers

6.7

Ski Lift to Death

1978

as Vicki Gordon

The Gathering

as Peggy

One on One

as B.J. Rudolph

The Baron

as Samantha - Wasp Lady

Bound for Glory

as Pauline

Bittersweet Love

as Roz

The Dark Side of Innocence

1976

as Heather

The Drowning Pool

1975

as Mavis

6.3

Ellery Queen: Too Many Suspects

1975

as Gail Stevens

My Father's House

1975

as Paula

Television (43)

First Monday

as Deborah Szwark

Providence

as Evelyn Lombard

The Pretender

as Grace Carter-Welman

7.4

Profiler

1996

as Nurse Melinda Moscone

JAG

as Bartlett

as Renee Spielman

Chicago Hope

as Shirley Fleming

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine

1993

as Alixus

7.9

Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman

as Olive Davis

Walker, Texas Ranger

as Dr. Janet Monroe

Melrose Place

as Katherine Andrews

The Burden of Proof

as Fiona Cawley

Civil Wars

as Lisa Wharton

Law & Order

as Ellen Gorham

Seinfeld

as Jocelyn Landis

Murphy Brown

as Support Group Counselor

HeartBeat

as Marilyn McGrath

What a Country!

as Principal Joan Courtney

Spenser: For Hire

The Insiders

Murder, She Wrote

as Kate Hollander

Night Court

as Sheila Gardiner

Highway to Heaven

Hardcastle and McCormick

1983

as Agatha 'Aggy' Wainwright

Family Ties

as Dorothy Canell

Fame

Cagney & Lacey

Hill Street Blues

as Gail Kennedy

Darkroom

Walking Tall

Trapper John, M.D.

Dallas

as Veronica Robinson

Alice

Ellery Queen

as Gail Stevens

Harry O

as Laura Mayo

Kojak

as Monica

Barnaby Jones

as Susan Taylor

Police Story

M*A*S*H

as Capt. Helen Whitfield

The Bob Newhart Show

as Courtney Simpson

The Rookies

The Mary Tyler Moore Show

1970

as Sister Ann Hutchins

7.6

Hawaii Five-O

1968

as Elena Lewis

7.1