Image of 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)


Read bio at tmdb | Read bio at Wikipedia
Born:
Dec 14, 1953 In Sioux Falls, South Dakota, USA
Movie/TV Credits:
23
First Appeared:
In the series Saturday Night Live 1975-10-11
Latest Project:
Series Wu Assassins 2019-08-08
Known For
Poster of Wu Assassins
Poster of Surviving Theater 9
Poster of Fantastic Max
Poster of The Pound Puppies
Filmography
Series Wu Assassins Waitress 2019-08-08
Movie Surviving Theater 9 Linda 2018-04-22
Series I Am Weasel Nurse / Woman #1 (voice) 1997-07-22
Movie Tiny Toon Night Ghoulery Shirley the Loon (voice) 1995-05-28
Movie 'Twas the Night Before Bumpy Molly Coddle (voice) 1995-01-01
Series The Sylvester & Tweety Mysteries Hostess (voice) 1995-09-09
Series Pinky and the Brain Unknown 1995-09-09
Series The Adventures of Hyperman Unknown 1995-11-04
Movie Tiny Toon Spring Break Shirley the Loon / Plucky's Dream Girl / Additional Voices (voice) 1994-03-27
Series Spider-Man Sue Richards / Invisible Woman (voice) 1994-11-19
Series Bump in the Night 1994-09-10
Series Animaniacs Candie Chipmunk (voice) 1993-09-13
Movie Tiny Toon Adventures: How I Spent My Vacation Shirley the Loon / Sissy Boo (voice) 1992-03-11
Series The Ren & Stimpy Show Waffle Woman (voice) 1991-08-11
Series Bobby's World Martha (voice) 1990-09-08
Series Tiny Toon Adventures Shirley the Loon (voice) 1990-09-14
Series Camp Candy 1989-09-09
Series Fantastic Max 1988-09-11
Movie The Pound Puppies Violet (voice) 1985-10-26
Series Snorks Smallstar Seaworthy 1984-09-15
Series Challenge of the GoBots Unknown 1984-10-29
Series Simon & Simon Unknown 1981-11-24
Series Saturday Night Live Self - Various Characters 1975-10-11