Gail Strickland
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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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Acted in
My Apocalypse
2008
as Victoria Eastman
First Monday
2002
as Justice Deborah Szwark
Providence
1999
as Evelyn Lombard
Life of the Party: The Pamela Harriman Story
1998
as Betsey Cushing Roosevelt Whitney
The Pretender
1996
as Grace Carter-Welman
The American President
1995
as Esther MacInerney
How to Make an American Quilt
1995
as The Mrs.
JAG
1995
as Bartlett
A Mother's Prayer
1995
as Ruth
ER
1994
as Dr. Renee Spielman
Chicago Hope
1994
When a Man Loves a Woman
1994
as Pam
Last Time Out
1994
as Becky Davis
Remember
1993
as Amanda
Three of Hearts
1993
as Yvonne
Walker, Texas Ranger
1993
as Dr. Janet Monroe
Silent Cries
1993
as Roberta Hampton
Spies
1993
as Mrs. Mills
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
1993
as Alixus
Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman
1993
Melrose Place
1992
as Katherine Andrews
The Burden of Proof
1992
as Fiona Cawley
Civil Wars
1991
as Lisa Wharton
The Man in the Moon
1991
as Marie Foster
Law & Order
1990
as Ellen Gorham
Seinfeld
1989
as Jocelyn Landis
Murphy Brown
1988
as Support Group Counselor
HeartBeat
1988
as Marilyn McGrath
Hyper Sapien: People from Another Star
1986
What a Country!
1986
as Principal Joan Courtney
The Insiders
1985
Spenser: For Hire
1985
Protocol
1984
as Mrs. St. John
Murder, She Wrote
1984
as Kate Hollander
Murder, She Wrote
1984
as Edith Peabody
Highway to Heaven
1984
Oxford Blues
1984
as Las Vegas Lady
Night Court
1984
as Sheila Gardiner
Uncommon Valor
1983
as Helen Rhodes
Hardcastle and McCormick
1983
Lies
1983
as Jessica Brenner
Starflight: The Plane That Couldn't Land
1983
as Nancy Gilliam
Life of the Party: The Story of Beatrice
1982
as Abbie
Amy and the Angel
1982
as Mrs. Watson
Family Ties
1982
as Dorothy Canell
Eleanor, First Lady of the World
1982
as Anna Roosevelt
My Body, My Child
1982
as Adele
Cagney & Lacey
1982
Fame
1982
Darkroom
1981
Walking Tall
1981
Hill Street Blues
1981
A Matter of Life and Death
1981
as Mary Coggins
Rape and Marriage: The Rideout Case
1980
as Jean Christensen
King Crab
1980
as Vicky
The Gathering, Part II
1979
as Peggy
Letters from Frank
1979
as Marlene
Trapper John, M.D.
1979
Norma Rae
1979
as Bonnie Mae
Who'll Stop the Rain
1978
as Charmian
Dallas
1978
as Veronica Robinson
Ski Lift to Death
1978
as Vicki Gordon
The President's Mistress
1978
as Gwen Bowers
A Love Affair: The Eleanor and Lou Gehrig Story
1978
as Dorothy
The Gathering
1977
as Peggy
One on One
1977
as B.J. Rudolph
The Baron
1977
as Samantha - Wasp Lady
Bound for Glory
1976
as Pauline
Bittersweet Love
1976
as Roz
Alice
1976
The Dark Side of Innocence
1976
as Heather
The Drowning Pool
1975
as Mavis
My Father's House
1975
as Paula
Ellery Queen: Too Many Suspects
1975
as Gail Stevens
Harry O
1974
Kojak
1973
as Monica
Police Story
1973
Barnaby Jones
1973
as Susan Taylor
M*A*S*H
1972
as Capt. Helen Whitfield
The Bob Newhart Show
1972
The Rookies
1972
The Mary Tyler Moore Show
1970
as Sister Ann Hutchins
Hawaii Five-O
1968
as Elena Lewis
Hawaii Five-O
1968
as Forbes