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Gail Fisher (August 18, 1935 – December 2, 2000) was an American actress who was one of the first black women to play substantive roles in American television. She was best known for playing the role of secretary Peggy Fair on the television detective series Mannix from 1968 through 1975, a role for which she won two Golden Globe Awards and an Emmy Award; she was the first African-American woman to win those prestigious awards.
Gail Fisher was a trailblazing African-American actress who played Peggy Fair on Mannix, the first black woman to win an Emmy and a Golden Globe. She also had a troubled personal life, battled drug addiction and died in 2000.
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Gail Fisher, who won an Emmy Award in 1970 for her portrayal of Peggy Fair, secretary to the gumshoe played by Mike Connors on the CBS television series "Mannix," died on Dec. 2 at a hospital in ...
Gail Fisher, who won an Emmy Award in 1970 for her portrayal of Peggy Fair, secretary to the gumshoe played by Mike Connors on the CBS television series ''Mannix,'' died on Dec. 2 at a hospital in ...
Jun 19, 2022 · Fisher was the first Black woman to win an Emmy for her supporting role in the crime drama. 'Mannix' actress Gail Fisher with her Emmy in 1970. Bettmann. Why Gail Fisher is not more widely ...
Dec 2, 2000 · Gail Fisher was an American actress who played Peggy Fair on Mannix and won an Emmy Award. Learn about her life, career, awards, and filmography on TMDB.
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Mar 31, 2014 · Gail Fisher was already a popular model in African American newspapers and magazines, as well as a theater actress when, in the late 1950s, she starred in The New Girl in the Office, a film about integrating a hitherto all-white office staff of a white-owned company. The film was inspired by new federal equal employment policies under President Dwight Eisenhower’s President’s Committee on Government Contracts, an agency he created to encourage nondiscrimination enforcement.
