Gail Fisher
Gail Fisher was born in Orange, New Jersey, United States on August 18th, 1935 and is the TV Actress. At the age of 65, Gail Fisher biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, and networth are available.
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Gail Fisher (August 18, 1935 – December 2, 2000) was an American actress who was one of the first black women to play meaningful roles in American television.
She was best known for her appearance as secretary Peggy Fair on Mannix's television detective series from 1968 to 1975, a role for which she received two Golden Globe Awards and an Emmy Award; she was the first black woman to win either award.
In 1969, she received an NAACP Image Award.
Early years
Fisher, the youngest of five children, was born in Orange, New Jersey. Her father died when she was two years old, and she was raised by Ona Fisher, who ran a successful hair-styling franchise while living in Edison, New Jersey, while raising her family. She graduated from Metuchen High School in Metuchen, New Jersey, and she is a student at the New Jersey Department of Education. She competed in numerous beauty competitions, including Miss Transit, Miss Black New Jersey, and Miss Press Photographer during her teenage years.
Fisher received the opportunity to study acting at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts during a competition sponsored by Coca-Cola. She spent time in New York City as a student of acting and became a member of the Repertory Theater in Lincoln Center, where she worked with Elia Kazan and Herbert Blau. She spent time as a young girl as a model.
Personal life
Fisher was married and divorced twice. Samara and Jole's two children were born in 1964 and John Levy. Wali Muhammad's marriage to Dorothy Youngblood, a heralded cornerman to Sugar Ray Robinson and Muhammad Ali, ended in divorce after he changed religions. Wali was also an assistant minister to Malcolm X at Nation of Islam Mosque No. 7.
In its July 26, 1973 issue, Jet magazine announced that she was married to Robert A. Walker, a Los Angeles businessman. She was arrested in 1978 for cocaine and marijuana use as well as illegally operating a blue box.
Fisher died in Los Angeles in 2000, at the age of 65, possibly from kidney disease. Clifton died of heart disease just 12 hours after.
Career
Fisher made her first television appearance in 1960 at age 25, appearing in the NTA Film Network program The Play of the Week. Also during the early 1960s, she appeared in a television commercial for All laundry detergent, which she said made her "the first black female—no, make that black, period—to make a national TV commercial, on camera, with lines." In 1965, Herbert Blau cast her in a theatrical production of Danton's Death.
She first appeared in Mannix during the second season, when Mannix leaves a detective firm and sets up shop as a private investigator. She became the second African American woman after Nichelle Nichols of Star Trek to show prominently on weekly television. In 1968, she made guest appearances on the TV series My Three Sons; Love, American Style; and Room 222. In 1970, her work on Mannix was honored when she received the Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series, becoming the first African-American woman to do so. In 1971, Fisher became the first African-American woman to win a Golden Globe, and won her second in 1973. After Mannix was cancelled in 1975, she appeared on television about once a year, guest starring on popular shows such as Fantasy Island, Knight Rider, General Hospital, and The White Shadow.