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Actor Born: August 18, 1935 in Orange, NJ Death: December 2, 2000 in Los Angeles, CA Biography:"Gail Fisher" helped break several barriers as a young black actress in television during the 1960s. She was the first black performer to get dialogue in a nationally aired commercial, and as Peggy Fair on Mannix, only the second black woman (the first being "Nichelle Nichols" of Star Trek) cast as a regular character in a dramatic hour-long network series, a role for which she won an Emmy award in 1970. Fisher was one of five children born in Orange, NJ. She was later a beauty pageant winner and became a model, using the money she earned in the latter profession and from her regular job in a local factory in New Jersey to take acting lessons in New York. Fisher studied with "Lee Strasberg" and was later a member of the Repertory Theater at Lincoln Center, where she worked with "Elia Kazan" and Herbert Blau, among other directors. It was Blau who gave Fisher her significant stage credit, portraying a... Full Biography
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