Highest rated movie: A Love Affair: The Eleanor and Lou Gehrig Story (1978)
Lowest rated movie: Bittersweet Love (1976)
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Movies starring Gail Strickland have generally received positive reviews and hold an average score of 60%.
A Love Affair: The Eleanor and Lou Gehrig Story - released in 1978 - is Gail Strickland's highest rated movie, with a score of 87% based on 1 reviews.
The lowest rated film from Gail Strickland is Bittersweet Love - released in 1976 - with a score of 37% based on 2 reviews.
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.
Gail Strickland has acted in films with Melanie Griffith, Beau Bridges, Samantha Mathis and Ellen Burstyn.
Gail Strickland has worked with these film directors: Rob Reiner, Ted Kotcheff, Martin Ritt and Karel Reisz.
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