# Gail Cronauer

Gail Cronauer is an American stage, television, and feature film actress and an acting professor. She has performed in films as diverse as Oliver Stone's JFK to the TV series, Walker, Texas Ranger. She is a recipient of the 2007 Dallas Fort Worth Theater Critics Forum award, for her role in the Lyric Stage production Master Class.

## Early life and career

Gail Cronauer was born in Pennsylvania and grew up in New Jersey. Cronauer attended Antioch College for her undergraduate degree, and after working on the musical Viet Rock, was galvanized to pursue a career in theatre and dance. She obtained her BA in theatre and dance from Antioch College in 1971 and then got her MFA in acting from the Case Western Reserve University. Cronauer moved to Dallas in 1979 to teach acting at Southern Methodist University, where she met her husband Mark Hougland in the university's graduate theatre program.
Cronauer also has taught acting at Illinois State University, Southern Methodist University, Webster College, the University of Wisconsin–Green Bay, Texas Women's University, and most recently at Collin College, where she worked from 1992 until her retirement in 2020. She is a member of Actors' Equity Association, Screen Actors Guild/AFTRA and Women in Film and Television International.

## Filmography

Films :
| Year | Film | Role |
| 1987 | Positive I.D. | Melissa |
| 1991 | JFK | Janet Williams |
| 1993 | Flesh and Bone | Emma |
| 1994 | The Substitute Wife | Isabel Donahue |
| 1995 | A Mother's Gift | Maggie |
| 1995 | The Unspoken Truth | Nora |
| 1996 | A Promise to Carolyn | Dr. Davis |
| 1996 | Carried Away | Beverly |
| 1997 | Selena | Women Customer |
| 1997 | It's in the Water | Harriet |
| 1997 | Litte Boy Blue | Motel Clerk |
| 1998 | Hefner: Unauthorized | Grace Hefner |
| 1998 | Finding North | Mrs. Penn |
| 1998 | The Newton Boys | Ma Newton |
| 1998 | Detention | Ms. Nunca |
| 1999 | Boys Don't Cry | Clerk |
| 2000 | Dr. T and the Women | Dr. T's Patient |
| 2002 | Warning: Parental Advisory | Senator Paula Hawkins |
| 2002 | The Anarchist Cookbook | Woman In Book Store |
| 2003 | Air | Myna |
| 2003 | Single and Dealing with It | Mother |
| 2004 | Seventy-8 | Margaret Meeks |
| 2006 | Infamous | Bonnie Clutter |
| 2007 | Walking Tall: The Payback | Emma Prescott |
| 2007 | Walking Tall: Lone Justice | Emma Prescott |
| 2009 | Dirty Red | Sister Grace Thomas |
| 2010 | Earthling | Isabel |
| 2010 | In the Land of Fireworks | Lawyer Brown |
| 2010 | Spilt Milk | Lois Schwartz |
| 2012 | Fuzzy Bubbles (Short) | Sandra |
| 2013 | Odd Man Out | Mother |
| 2013 | Sparrow (Short) | Moreen |
| 2014 | Piggy's Lament (Short) | Willa Kay |
| 2014 | Steps of Faith | Bell Wilcoxs |
| 2014 | Separate Rooms (Short) | Delores Shearer |
| 2015 | The Outfit (Short) | Mrs. Coleman |
| 2015 | Beyond the Farthest Star | Joycee Jones |
| 2016 | Occupy, Texas | The Principal |
| 2016 | The Sector | Trading Post Woman |
| 2016 | Te Ata | Eleanor Roosevelt |
| 2016 | A Heart That Forgives | Betty |
| 2016 | Kreep | Hazel |
| 2017 | Something Borrowed, Something Blue (Short) | Mom |
| 2017 | Freaks | Mama |
| 2018 | Texas Cotton | Judge Hoover |
| 2019 | CatFest (Short) | Anya |
| 2019 | The Vast of Night | Mabel Blanche |
| 2020 | One of These Days | Martha |
| 2020 | Undying | Olga |
| 2020 | The Seventh Day | Secretary |
Television :
| Year(s) | Series | Role | Notes |
| 1997–2001 | Walker, Texas Ranger | Surgeon / Dr. Larson / Principal / Millie Hunt / Ted Lannon | 5 episodes |
| 1996–2004 | LAX | Serb Woman / Lannon | "Pilot" "The Return of LaRue" |
| 2013-2020 | Bail Out | Josie O'Banion | Recurring |
| 2013 | Delphis | Sophie | "Sophie, the Bitch" |
| 2014 | Revolution | Shirlee | "Austin City Limits" |
| 2014 | Dallas | Dr. Englert | "Like a Bad Penny" |
| 2024- | Landman | Beverly | 3 episodes |

## Awards

* 2007 Dallas Fort Worth Theater Critics Forum- Actress