Gail Strickland is an American actress who had prominent supporting roles in such films as The Drowning Pool (1975), Bound for Glory (1976), Who'll Stop the Rain (1978), Norma Rae (1979), and Protocol (1984), and appeared regularly on various network television shows.
[2] In 1973, Strickland appeared as Sister Ann in the season four episode, "Almost a Nun's Story", on The Mary Tyler Moore Show.
Strickland played a struggling rancher's daughter in the 1987 Highway to Heaven episode "A Dream of Wild Horses", alongside actor Richard Farnsworth.
Strickland also played Esther MacInerney, the wife of Martin Sheen's presidential chief of staff character, in the 1995 movie The American President.
Strickland was a cast member in the brief run of the 2002 CBS television series First Monday, playing an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States.