Gail Strickland
Biography
Gail Strickland is a retired American actress whose career rested on supporting parts in films and frequent guest roles on network television. Born in Birmingham, Alabama, she attended Florida State University and later trained at the Sanford Meisner Drama School in New York, breaking in through commercials and soap operas. Her early features included The Drowning Pool (1975), Bound for Glory (1976), Who'll Stop the Rain (1978) and Norma Rae (1979), with later work in Protocol (1984) and The American President (1995). On television she played Sister Ann on The Mary Tyler Moore Show, a nurse practitioner in the 1988 series HeartBeat, and Olive Davis in eleven episodes of Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman from 1993 to 1994. She also appeared on The Bob Newhart Show, Night Court, Seinfeld, JAG and ER, and was a cast member of the 2002 CBS series First Monday.
81years old
Turns 82 on May 18in 198 days
- Born Birmingham
- Star sign: TaurusThe sign runs April 20 to May 20
Movie Career
- Films
- 16
- Career span
- 20 years1975 to 1995
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A first
Strickland was the first female clown with the Florida State University circus while she was a student there, and she also competed as a gymnast.
Early training
Strickland moved to New York, where she studied improvisational acting while employed as a receptionist at an advertising agency. She then attended the Sanford Meisner Drama School.
A change of course
Before turning to acting, Strickland spent two months as a governess in Spain and then waited tables in Cape Cod.
Gail Strickland movies on Netflix
Best known for
The films on Netflix they are best known for, with the part played in each.
Most often with
Seven actors appear in two of them each. Pick a number on the chart or a name in the list to see the films they share.
Films together
Beau Bridges's page
Peter Jason's page
Tess Harper's page
Paul Koslo's page
Eugene Roche's page
James Luisi's page
Also two films together1 more actor
- Jan BurrellWho'll Stop the Rain (1978) and Bound for Glory (1976)
When several people share the same number of films, the ones with the most films on Netflix are in the chart.
Box office
What Gail Strickland's films earned in cinemas worldwide.
Combined worldwide box office
$248 million
8 of the 16 films have a worldwide figure.
Of the 16 films: 8 worldwide figure; 1 us gross only; 4 never in cinemas; 3 figure not found.
- 8Worldwide figure
- 1US gross only
- 4Never in cinemas
- 3Figure not found
Highest grossing
The eight biggest films earned 100% of the total. The bars are drawn to scale.
- 1$108M43.5% of the total
- 2$50M20.2% of the total
- 3$31M12.3% of the total
- 4$26M10.6% of the total
- 5$22M9.0% of the total
- 6$5.5M2.2% of the total
- 7$2.9M1.2% of the total
- 8$2.6M1.0% of the total
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