Gail Mackinnon
Gail MacKinnon joined the Motion Picture Association (MPA) in November 2017 and is the current Senior Executive Vice President for Global Policy & Government Affairs. A skilled senior executive with experience in public policy advocacy, issues management, and strategy development, Gail oversees the MPA's government relations portfolio and policy agenda, as well as its international advocacy and policy, including in the APAC and EMEA regions. Previously, Gail served as Executive Vice President, Government Relations for Time Warner Cable, where she led all aspects of federal, state, and local government relations for the telecommunications company. She positioned the company as a trusted advisor to government leaders on a range of public policy issues; including video reform, cybersecurity, tax, and privacy. Prior to her role at Time Warner Cable, Gail was Senior Vice President of Government Relations at the National Cable & Telecommunications Association. She has held senior positions at Viacom, CBS Inc., Telecommunications Inc., and Turner Broadcasting. She began her career on Capitol Hill, serving as Legislative Director for Congressman Jack Fields (R-TX). In 2016, Gail helped co-found WE Capital, a consortium of women in the Washington, D.C. business community investing in female-led startups focused on social impact work. She was named one of Washingtonian's Most Powerful Women in 2019. Gail received a Bachelor's degree from Georgetown University.
Gail Mancuso
Noted TV series director Gail Mancuso grew up in suburban Cook County, Illinois. Mancuso began her career as an usher of the set of several television talk shows. Later, became a script supervisor for the Showtime Cable Network comedy "Brothers". In 1989, she began serving as associate director for the ABC-TV sitcom series "Roseanne". After one of the show's directors left in 1991, she had the chance to become one of the main directors and continued until the show's eighth season. She went on to direct episodes of many television series like the long-running NBC-TV sitcom "Friends", and the ABC sitcoms "Dharma and Greg" and "Two Guys, a Girl, and a Pizza Place". In 2007, Gail began working on the CBS-TV sitcom series "Rules of Engagement". She has also directed episodes of ABC-TV's "30 Rock" and NBC-TV's "Scrubs". In 2008, she won a Gracie Award for her work on "30 Rock". In 2011, she was nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award for her "Modern Family" episode "Slow Down Your Neighbors". In 2012, she reunited with "Roseanne" co-stars Roseanne Barr and John Goodman, both of whom she directed on "Roseanne", in the pilot episode of "Downwardly Mobile", which was commissioned by NBC-TV, but ultimately did not get picked up by the network. In 2013, she won the Emmy Award for directing episode "Arrested" on "Modern Family". Gail is happily married to Brian Downs, a doctor; they have three children. The family divides its' time between their homes in Valencia, California and River Forest, Illinois.
Gail Matthius
Gail Matthius was born on December 8, 1953 in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, USA. She is an actress, known for Airplane II: The Sequel (1982), Bobby's World (1990) and Bump in the Night (1994).
Gail Maurice
Gail Maurice is a fluent Cree/Michif speaking actor and an award-winning independent filmmaker and Arts Laureate. She is a Canadian Screen Award nominee for Best Supporting Actress in a television series for Trickster. She was nominated for Best Supporting Actress in a feature film at the American Indian Film Institute. She translated and was Ida, in the feature film Night Raiders, a Danis Goulet/Taiki Waititi production. She translated/co-wrote and was Meetos, in the feature film Quebexit, in which she won Best Screenplay at the Whistler Film Festival 2020. She was recurring in the television series Barkskins a BBC/National Geographic production. She was Rita Colchak in Jordan Peele's The Twilight Zone, Dorothy Pine in the hit CTV series Cardinal, Sarah in the award-winning detective web series Cold, Inez in Falls Around Her, Annabelle Bearclaw in The Incredible 25th Year of Mitzi Bearclaw and Coyote in The Inconvenient Indian. Her feature film directorial debut Rosie, which she wrote & produced will be filmed in 2021.
Gail Mazzaferro
Gail Mazzaferro is an actress and costume designer, known for Scathing (2016) and Anne (2018).
Gail Miller Bisher
Gail Miller Bisher is the Fox Sports Dog Show Analyst for the Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show telecast and host of the video series, The Road to Westminster. An award-winning advertising broadcast producer, Gail took her passion for dogs from a young age and turned it into a professional career as the director of communications for the Westminster Kennel Club, the former national spokesperson for the American Kennel Club and founder of the Super Fit Fido Club. She enjoys dog sports with her English Cocker Spaniel and Vizsla. Gail has lifelong experience in the world of dog sports as a handler, trainer and judge. She made history at Westminster earning second in the Junior Showmanship finals, the first-ever placement with a Bearded Collie. Early in her professional handling career she piloted dogs to Best in Show wins and national top-rankings. Over the years, she has trained and handled her own dogs to their titles in conformation, obedience, rally, advanced Canine Good Citizen, and earthdog. An advertising, marketing, and public relations professional, Gail has decades of experience in brand development, content creation and media relations. She is an award-winning advertising broadcast producer with Clio and Cannes wins to her credit. Additionally, her work has received awards in the public relations, licensing and social media industries.
Gail Mowat
Gail Mowat is known for Title to Murder (2001), At the Movies (2007) and Pleasures of Sin (2001).
Gail O'Grady
Gail O'Grady was born on January 23, 1963 in Detroit, Michigan, USA. She is an actress and producer, known for Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo (1999), NYPD Blue (1993) and American Dreams (2002). She was previously married to John Stamatakis, Anthony J Pellegrino, Steve Fenton, Severin Wunderman, Jeffrey Byron and Richard Dasko.
Gail Patrick
Cold, calculating and hard-as-nails is probably the best definition of Gail Patrick's femmes on the 30s and 40s silver screen, and the actress herself was no softie in real life. The tall, slender, patrician beauty was born with the equally stately-sounding name Margaret LaVelle Fitzpatrick in Birmingham, Alabama, on June 20, 1911. She received a B.A. and was a dean of women at her alma mater, Howard College, for a time. She was studying pre-law at the University of Alabama at the time she, by happenstance, became a finalist in a nationwide contest for a Paramount film role (which she did not get). This led her to go to Hollywood and, despite her loss, the studio wound up offering her a studio contract at $50 a week (she managed to finagle her way to $75). After the usual grooming in bit parts, Gail moved stealthily up the ladder to featured roles in a wide assortment of genres including the fantasy Death Takes a Holiday (1934), the melodramatic thriller The Crime of Helen Stanley (1934), the musical Mississippi (1935) and the easy comedy Early to Bed (1936). Just as quickly she began essaying the occasional co-star or leading lady -- that of a woman lawyer in Disbarred (1939) and a romantic diversion in the Zane Grey western adaptations of Wagon Wheels (1934) and Wanderer of the Wasteland (1935). She was most identified, however, in manipulative second leads while usually tangling with the star femme as the "other woman," haughty socialite or scheming villainess. Gail participated grandly in three well-known film classics. In the screwball comedy My Man Godfrey (1936), she was at odds with Carole Lombard as a spoiled, treacherous sister; in Stage Door (1937), she engaged in some marvelous cat-fights with Ginger Rogers as a cynical wannabe actress, and in My Favorite Wife (1940) she played Cary Grant's exacting second wife who must contend with the reappearance of his first, supposedly dead wife Irene Dunne. Gail exuded wit, confidence, assertiveness and elegance in all her characters, nothing less, and her male co-stars were the sturdiest assortment Hollywood could offer -- Bing Crosby, Randolph Scott, Richard Dix, John Howard, Preston Foster, Dean Jagger and George Sanders. In 1947, she did an abrupt about-face and left her highly respectable career following her third marriage. After involving herself successfully in clothing design, she became (as Gail Patrick Jackson) the executive producer of the Perry Mason (1957) TV series (1957-1966), alongside producer and husband (Thomas) Cornwell Jackson, who was a literary agent to author/creator Erle Stanley Gardner. The courtroom "whodunnit" was a long and highly successful run. She and Jackson divorced in 1969, and one of her few failures in life was in her attempt to revive the series with The New Perry Mason (1973) in 1973, but Monte Markham was a mighty pale comparison to Raymond Burr in the title role and the show quickly tanked. Divorced three times, she and Mr. Jackson had two adopted children. She was married to her fourth husband John Velde Jr., at the time of her death in 1980 of leukemia. She was 69.
Gail Payne
Born and raised in Gibson City, Illinois, Gail moved to New York City from Indianapolis, Indiana, in 2018. Prior to becoming a full-time actor/performer, she produced her own solo shows and toured them in Indianapolis, Chicago, St. Louis and New York. She studied acting at the Neighborhood Playhouse School of Theatre, and various instructors including Patsy Rodenburg, Rob Clare, and ongoing with Karl Bury and Jess Cummings. Gail tried many paths before giving into her passion to be a pro performer: PR consultant, $MM fundraiser, yoga studio owner, stay-at-home-step-mom, cabaret chanteuse. Now, it all informs her characters' lives. She loves playing underestimated fighters with guarded vulnerability.