- Born
- Birth nameGail Elaine Chord
- Nicknames
- Gabrielle Chana
- Church of Gail
- Gail
- Height5′ 7″ (1.70 m)
- Gail Chord Schuler was born in 1957 to a fashion model mother from Japan (descended from the royal Oshu Fujiwara family) and an Eastern airlines pilot father (whose uncle was aviator Howard Hughes).
At age 3, her parents divorced, and she was raised by a single mother in Miami, Florida. She graduated from Miami Palmetto Sr. High in 1975, where Miss Universe Sylvia Hitchcock had attended.
Though her family pleaded with her to go to Air Force Officer's Training, she turned down her acceptance, and ended up graduating from Baptist University of America in 1983 with a degree in Humanities (missions and education). She surrendered to be a missionary while studying at Baptist University of America.
She dreamed of a soulmate and decided to have an imaginary one, who would certainly not threaten her marriage and after watching Brent Spiner portray Data in the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode "Pen Pals" in 1989 felt she found a vast person who could match the vastness inside her that screamed for existence. She opened her mind and heart as a friend to her pen pal Brent Spiner, feeling this would be a safe way for her to have her imaginary soul mate, knowing for certain that Brent would never have a romantic interest in her, and hoping for some type of pen friendship, safe and long distance.
She began to have trouble with the state of Florida's H.R.S. in 1990 over an accident she had with her son, and wrote Brent about this. She noticed that the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode "The Drumhead" seemed to tell her story about persecution from a government agency over a mistake. Brent had written a letter to Gail thanking her for sharing her thoughts, and Gail responded with a tape of her singing and piano playing. Her consuming passion for Brent Spiner led to him obtaining a restraining order against her.
While married, she lived in Portland, Oregon; Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan; Miami, Florida; Seattle, Washington; Houston, Texas; North Charleston, South Carolina, and then in Seattle, Washington when she divorced her husband in 2001.
When Gail got the Internet in 2011, and learned how to publish her own books, she got back into writing.
She has published several books, has a book in progress, and also narrates her own audio books.- IMDb Mini Biography By: Gail Chord Schuler
Contribute to this page
Suggest an edit or add missing content