Gayle Rankin is a Scottish actress, best known as Sheila the She-Wolf in the TV series GLOW (2017). She also played the role of Queen Victoria in The Greatest Showman (2017) and Emily Dodson in HBO's Perry Mason (2020). Rankin trained at the Juilliard School in New York City, the first Scot to win a place there.

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Gayle Rankin at an event for The 25th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards (2019)

Whitmer Thomas and Gayle Rankin in GLOW (2017)

Domhnall Gleeson, Grant O'Rourke, Louis Paxton, Anthony Dickenson, and Gayle Rankin in The Incomer (2026)

Matt Smith and Gayle Rankin in House of the Dragon (2022)

Ryan Kwanten and Gayle Rankin in Kindred (2022)

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Jackie Tohn, Alison Brie, Sydelle Noel, Kia Stevens, Betty Gilpin, Kate Nash, Britney Young, and Gayle Rankin in GLOW (2017)

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