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Gail Matthius
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Gail Matthius
Known For
Acting
Birthday
1953-12-14,Sioux Falls, South Dakota, USA
Gender
Female
Biography
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)

Filmography

The Pound Puppies

2

The Pound Puppies
1985-10-26

Surviving Theater 9

0

Surviving Theater 9
2018-04-22

Tiny Toon Adventures: How I Spent My Vacation

6.7

Tiny Toon Adventures: How I Spent My Vacation
1992-03-11

Tiny Toon Spring Break

6.5

Tiny Toon Spring Break
1994-03-27

'Twas the Night Before Bumpy

6.9

'Twas the Night Before Bumpy
1995-01-01

Tiny Toon Night Ghoulery

6.5

Tiny Toon Night Ghoulery
1995-05-28

8.279

Spider-Man
1994-11-19

Challenge of the GoBots

6.267

Challenge of the GoBots
1984-10-29

Pinky and the Brain

7.642

Pinky and the Brain
1995-09-09

Tiny Toon Adventures

7.8

Tiny Toon Adventures
1990-09-14

6.7

Simon & Simon
1981-11-24

6.3

Snorks
1984-09-15

5

Camp Candy
1989-09-09

Bump in the Night

6.8

Bump in the Night
1994-09-10

7.1

Fantastic Max
1988-09-11

The Adventures of Hyperman

0

The Adventures of Hyperman
1995-11-04

Saturday Night Live

6.9

Saturday Night Live
1975-10-11

The Ren & Stimpy Show

7.606

The Ren & Stimpy Show
1991-08-11

The Sylvester & Tweety Mysteries

6.5

The Sylvester & Tweety Mysteries
1995-09-09

The Sylvester & Tweety Mysteries

6.5

The Sylvester & Tweety Mysteries
1995-09-09

7.2

I Am Weasel
1997-07-22

6.876

Bobby's World
1990-09-08

7.97

Animaniacs
1993-09-13

6.8

Wu Assassins
2019-08-08

Men Behaving Badly

5.5

Men Behaving Badly
1996-09-18