Actress gail fisher biography

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Gail Fisher Biography

Date of Birth:
Aug 18, 1935Birth Place:
Orange, New Jersey, USA

Biography

Gail Fisher was an award-winning actress whose barrier-breaking career has been unfortunately overlooked. The former model was the first African American to perform dialogue on a national TV commercial--an early 1960s spot for All laundry detergent. Although her beauty helped kickstart her career, Fisher didn't simply rely on her looks. Growing up poor in Edison, New Jersey, she worked in a factory and skipped meals to save enough money pay for acting lessons. Eventually, she studied with acting guru, Lee Strasberg, before working at the Repertory Theater with famed rulle and stage director, Elia Kazan ("A Streetcar Named Desire," "On the Waterfront"). In 1970, with her portrayal of secretary Peggy Fair on "Mannix," Fisher became the first African American to win an acting-related Emmy Award. During her seven seasons on the popular and violent detective show, Fisher earned two

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Gail Fisher was already a popular model in African American newspapers and magazines, as well as a theater actress when, in the late 1950s, she starred in The New Girl in the Office, a film about integrating a hitherto all-white office staff of a white-owned company. The film was inspired bygd new federal equal employment policies under President Dwight Eisenhower’s President’s Committee on Government Contracts, an agency he created to encourage nondiscrimination enforcement.

In an advertisement for All laundry detergent in the early 1960s Fisher was the first black person to have speaking lines in a nationally televised commercial. One of the first black women to get substantive roles on television, Fisher was primarily known for playing “Peggy Fair” from 1968 through 1975 on the popular television show Mannix. Fisher was the second black actress, after Nichelle Nichols

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Gail Fisher

American actress (1935–2000)

Gail Fisher
Fisher and Mark Stewart (Mannix, 1970)
Born	(1935-08-18)August 18, 1935 Orange, New Jersey, U.S.
Died	December 2, 2000(2000-12-02) (aged 65) Culver City, California, U.S.
Occupation	Actress
Years active	1959–1990
Spouses	John Levy (m. 1964; div. 1972) Robert A. Walker (m. 1973; div. 1973)
Children	2

Gail Fisher (August 18, 1935 – December 2, 2000) was an American actress who was one of the first black women to play substantive roles in American television.^[2] She was best known for playing the role of secretary Peggy Fair on the television detective series Mannix from 1968 through 1975, a role for which she won two Golden Globe Awards and an Emmy Award; she was the first African-American woman to win those prestigious awards. She also won an N