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. 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 RoleNotes 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