Gail Strickland

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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 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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Gail Strickland, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

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2008
My Apocalypse
Movie Victoria Eastman
2002
First Monday
TV show Deborah Szwark
1999
Providence
TV show Evelyn Lombard
1998
Life of the Party: The Pamela Harriman Story
Movie Betsey Cushing Roosevelt Whitney
1996
Profiler
TV show Nurse Melinda Moscone
1996
The Pretender
TV show Grace Carter-Welman
1995
The American President
Movie Esther MacInerney
1995
How to Make an American Quilt
Movie The Mrs.
1995
JAG
TV show Bartlett
1995
A Mother's Prayer
Movie Ruth
1994
ER
TV show Renee Spielman
1994
Chicago Hope
TV show Shirley Fleming
1994
When a Man Loves a Woman
Movie Pam
1994
Last Time Out
Movie Becky Davis
1993
Remember
Movie Amanda
1993
Three of Hearts
Movie Yvonne