Gail Matthius

Born: 1953-12-14

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)


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Tiny Toon Adventures: How I Spent My Vacation

as Shirley the Loon / Sissy Boo (voice)
Released: 1992-03-11

Term-time ends at Acme Looniversity and the Tiny Toon characters look forward to a summer filled...

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Tiny Toon Night Ghoulery

as Shirley the Loon (voice)
Released: 1995-05-28

In this Halloween Special, Babs Bunny plays the part of host as she and the Tiny Toons gang...

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Tiny Toon Spring Break

as Shirley the Loon / Plucky's Dream Girl / Additional Voices (voice)
Released: 1994-03-27

Buster, Babs and the entire 'Tiny Toons' gang decided to take a trip to Ft. Lauderdale for...

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'Twas the Night Before Bumpy

as Molly Coddle (voice)
Released: 1995-01-01

The following trio of lovable characters has emerged from every child's imagination and landed...

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Surviving Theater 9

as Linda
Released: 2018-04-22

From the survivors of the Aurora Colorado Batman Movie Theater and Columbine mass shootings, a...

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The Pound Puppies

as Violet (voice)
Released: 1985-10-26

A female dog from a wealthy family named Violet Vanderfeller is picked up and taken to the city...

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Simon & Simon

as uncredited
First aired: 1981-11-24

Simon & Simon is an American detective television series that originally ran from November 24,...

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Saturday Night Live

as Self - Various Characters
First aired: 1975-10-11

A late-night live television sketch comedy and variety show created by Lorne Michaels. The...

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Spider-Man

as Sue Richards / Invisible Woman (voice)
First aired: 1994-11-19

Bitten by a neogenetic spider, Peter Parker develops spider-like superpowers. He uses these to...

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Animaniacs

as Candie Chipmunk (voice)
First aired: 1993-09-13

The two Warner Brothers Yakko and Wakko and their Warner sister Dot had been (supposedly)...

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The Ren & Stimpy Show

as Waffle Woman (voice)
First aired: 1991-08-11

Ren and Stimpy are a mismatch made in animation heaven with nothing in common but a life-long...

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Tiny Toon Adventures

as Shirley the Loon (voice)
First aired: 1990-09-14

Follow the adventures of a group of young cartoon characters who attend the Acme Looniversity to...

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I Am Weasel

as Nurse / Woman #1 (voice)
First aired: 1997-07-22

The adventures of the noble, generous, intelligent and good-at-everything I.M. Weasel, who must...

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Bobby's World

as Martha (voice)
First aired: 1990-09-08

Bobby Generic lives in a typical suburban neighborhood and uses his overactive imagination to...

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Snorks

as Smallstar Seaworthy
First aired: 1984-09-15

The Snorks is an animated television series produced by Hanna-Barbera which ran on NBC from...

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Men Behaving Badly

as Hilary Clinton (voice)
First aired: 1996-09-18

Men Behaving Badly is an American sitcom that ran on NBC from 1996 to 1997. It is based on the...

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The Sylvester & Tweety Mysteries

as Stewardess (voice)
First aired: 1995-09-09

Sylvester and Tweety help out when Granny opens a detective agency.

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The Sylvester & Tweety Mysteries

as Hostess (voice)
First aired: 1995-09-09

Sylvester and Tweety help out when Granny opens a detective agency.

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Pinky and the Brain

as uncredited
First aired: 1995-09-09

Pinky and Brain are genetically enhanced laboratory mice who reside in a cage in the Acme Labs...

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Wu Assassins

as Waitress
First aired: 2019-08-08

The last in a line of Chosen Ones, a wannabe chef teams up with a homicide detective to unravel...

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Camp Candy

as uncredited
First aired: 1989-09-09

Camp Candy is a 1989-1992 animated television series produced by DIC Entertainment, with...

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Bump in the Night

as uncredited
First aired: 1994-09-10

Bump in the Night is an animated series by Danger Productions that was filmed using stop-motion...

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Challenge of the GoBots

as uncredited
First aired: 1984-10-29

Challenge of the GoBots is an American animated series produced by Hanna-Barbera, based on the...

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Fantastic Max

as uncredited
First aired: 1988-09-11

A diaper-wearing toddler with a mohawk named Maxwell "Fantastic Max" Young has adventures in...

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