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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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Gender
Female
Birthday
1945-05-18
Place of birth
Birmingham, Alabama, USA
Amy and the Angel
1982
5.50
Three of Hearts
1993
4.80
Oxford Blues
1984
5.52
Who'll Stop the Rain
1978
6.50
The American President
1995
6.50
The Drowning Pool
1975
6.30
How to Make an American Quilt
1995
6.40
Uncommon Valor
1983
6.24
A Mother's Prayer
1995
8.50
Norma Rae
1979
7.18
Bound for Glory
1976
6.88
The Gathering, Part II
1979
0.00
Protocol
1984
5.50
The Man in the Moon
1991
7.36
King Crab
1980
0.00
Silent Cries
1993
1.00
The Gathering
1977
4.50
Bittersweet Love
1976
3.70
Eleanor, First Lady of the World
1982
6.00
Ellery Queen: Too Many Suspects
1975
0.00
The Dark Side of Innocence
1976
0.00
Remember
1993
0.00
Last Time Out
1994
0.00
My Apocalypse
2008
4.80
Lies
1983
5.60
The Baron
1977
4.50
My Body, My Child
1982
9.00
One on One
1977
5.80
Ski Lift to Death
1978
0.00
The President's Mistress
1978
6.70
When a Man Loves a Woman
1994
6.60
My Father's House
1975
0.00
Spies
1993
0.00
Letters from Frank
1979
0.00
A Matter of Life and Death
1981
0.00