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Gail Matthius

Gail Matthius

Gail Matthius is an American actress, voice actress and comedian. She was a cast member of NBC's Saturday Night Live during its critical and ratings low point at the time (the 1980–1981 season headed by Jean Doumanian), and co-anchored the Weekend Update segment with Charles Rocket in 1981. Matthius had worked as a comedian in Los Angeles appearing at The Comedy Store before successfully auditioning for Doumanian's cast. In 2015, the magazine Rolling Stone ranked Gail Matthius at, out of 141 cast members, the 74th best of Saturday Night Live, calling her, "A flicker of hope in the Saturday Night Live 1980 debacle, with a sharp valley girl mall-chick character named Vickie. Matthius and Vickie both deserved better." Matthius played the following recurring characters on SNL: Vicki, a valley girl who, along with her friend, Debbie (played by Denny Dillon) annoyed people with their persistent questions and shallow statements. Roweena, a Midwestern-accented hairdresser who often has a neurotic, middle-aged woman named Nadine (played by Denny Dillon) as a frequent customer. Francis Lively, wife to Charles Rocket's Phil Lively, a fellow game show host who lives life at home as if it were just another game show. Her celebrity impersonations included: Brooke Shields, in a parody of the racy Calvin Klein TV ads that featured her, Irene Cara, Nancy Reagan and Mary Cunningham. Following her stint on SNL, Matthius appeared in the short-lived British/American sketch show Assaulted Nuts and the syndicated sketch comedy series Laugh Trax (where she revived her valley girl Vicki character from SNL). She did a good deal of voice acting for animated shows from the late 1980s into the 1990s, including Bobby's World (with Laugh Trax co-star Howie Mandel), Tiny Toon Adventures, Animaniacs, The Ren & Stimpy Show, Bump in the Night and The Tick, often using the voice of her valley girl and Roweena characters from Saturday Night Live (in characters such as Martha, who sounds like Roweena, and Shirley the Loon from Tiny Toon Adventures). She also is a member of the Spolin Players Improv comedy troupe and acts as a drama and theater coach and teacher in Pacific Palisades, CA for various acting studios including Theatre Palisades. She continues to perform as an improv and drama theater actress. In 2016, Matthius appeared in the play For Piano and Harpo by Dan Castellaneta. (Source: Wikipedia)

Personal information

Birthday

1953-12-14

Birth Place

Sioux Falls, South Dakota, USA

Movies and TV shows :

'Twas the Night Before Bumpy

'Twas the Night Before Bumpy

1995

6.9

Movie
poster

Animaniacs

1993

7.9

TV
poster

Bobby's World

1990

6.9

TV
poster

Bump in the Night

1994

6.8

TV
poster

Camp Candy

1989

4.7

TV
poster

Challenge of the GoBots

1984

6.4

TV
poster

Fantastic Max

1988

7.2

TV
poster

I Am Weasel

1997

7.2

TV
poster

Pinky and the Brain

1995

7.7

TV
poster

Saturday Night Live

1975

6.9

TV
poster

Simon & Simon

1981

6.7

TV
poster

Snorks

1984

6.3

TV
poster

Spider-Man

1994

8.3

TV
Surviving Theater 9

Surviving Theater 9

2018

0.0

Movie
poster

The Adventures of Hyperman

1995

0.0

TV
The Pound Puppies

The Pound Puppies

1985

2.0

Movie
poster

The Ren & Stimpy Show

1991

7.6

TV
poster

The Sylvester & Tweety Mysteries

1995

6.2

TV
poster

Tiny Toon Adventures

1990

7.8

TV
Tiny Toon Adventures: How I Spent My Vacation

Tiny Toon Adventures: How I Spent My Vacation

1992

6.6

Movie
Tiny Toon Night Ghoulery

Tiny Toon Night Ghoulery

1995

6.5

Movie
Tiny Toon Spring Break

Tiny Toon Spring Break

1994

6.5

Movie
poster

Wu Assassins

2019

6.8

TV