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