Gail Mitchell, known professionally as Gail Bean, is an NAACP Image award-winning actress. Bean co-starred in the series Paradise Lost and the film Unexpected. She has also acted in Insecure, Love in the Time of Corona, Atlanta, and Detroiters. She is best known for her portrayal of Wanda Bell on Snowfall (2018–2023). She is currently a main cast member on the Starz drama P-Valley.
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Biography from TMDB.
- November 27, 1992 (33)
- Stone Mountain, Georgia, USA
- Actor, also producer
- 18 on MovieCove · 20 credits in all
What are Gail Bean's films like?
Across their 7 MovieCove titles with a thematic analysis, their films lean Bonds and Self.
Genres
Their MovieCove films by primary genre. The badge is the typical Midcredits score of the genre's films, the median percentile; an up arrow marks a genre at or above their average across these genres.
Themes
What they feel like to watch
Ironic 0 · Wry 0 · Earnest 5
Light 1 · Serious 0 · Dark 4
Grounded 5 · Stylized 0 · Heightened 0
Gentle 1 · Charged 0 · Intense 4
A split, not a type: Steady 3 · Shifting 1 · Whiplash 1
Straight-faced 4 · Some laughs 1 · Funny 0
Slow burn 2 · Even-paced 3 · Relentless 0
Casual 1 · Engaged 3 · Full focus 1
Easy watch 0 · Affecting 1 · Heavy 4
A split, not a type: Resolved 3 · Open-ended 0 · Ambiguous 2
Roles they play
Usually the Ally: 2 of 4 analyzed roles.
- Allyas Jasmine in Unexpected (2015)
- Allyas Jasmine in Skin in the Game (2019)
- Heroas Ally Fletcher in Both Eyes Open (2025)
- Heroas Wanda Bell in The Drop: A Snowfall Saga (2026)
Moods and endings
- Bittersweet2
- Tragic1
- Ambiguous4
AI-generated from each title's plot synopsis and cast list, with extra plot summaries, reviews and Parents Guide notes for titles the model may not know, and the model's own knowledge of the ones it recognizes. Only analyzed titles count, so this covers part of the filmography; the feel axes count films only for now.
Where can I watch Gail Bean's films?
As of October 24, 2026, 16 of their 18 MovieCove titles stream on a subscription or free service, most on Prime Video (6).
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Subscription and free streaming for Gail Bean's titles on MovieCove; rent and buy are not counted. Titles are listed by Midcredits score, highest first, at most 12 per service; a dashed chip is a producer credit or a minor one, such as a thanks. A service opens the browse page, which counts movies only, so its number can differ.
Filmography
20 credits, 18 with a MovieCove page; 1 appearance as themselves is hidden until asked for.
Midcredits score: 63rd percentile of all shows
Both Eyes Open(2025)
Midcredits score: 25th percentile of all films
The Piano Lesson(2024)
Midcredits score: 53rd percentile of all films
Test Pattern(2019)
Midcredits score: 63rd percentile of all films
Outcast (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2020)
Midcredits score: 8th percentile of all shows
P-Valley(2020)
Midcredits score: 84th percentile of all shows
Paradise Lost (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2020)
Games People Play(2019)
Midcredits score: 45th percentile of all shows
Skin in the Game(2019)
Midcredits score: 21st percentile of all films
Snowfall(2017)
Midcredits score: 98th percentile of all shows
The Belko Experiment(2016)
Midcredits score: 43rd percentile of all films
Detroiters(2017)
Midcredits score: 92nd percentile of all shows
Insecure(2016)
Midcredits score: 87th percentile of all shows
Atlanta(2016)
Midcredits score: 98th percentile of all shows
Bunnicula(2016)
Midcredits score: 43rd percentile of all shows
Unexpected(2015)
Midcredits score: 35th percentile of all films
Chicago P.D.(2014)
Midcredits score: 89th percentile of all shows
Sex Sent Me to the ER(2013)
Midcredits score: 7th percentile of all shows
Grey's Anatomy(2005)
Midcredits score: 77th percentile of all shows
Career shape
Star power in the 85th percentile of 239,109 people with a billed film role, over a full career of 20 titles from 2005 to 2026; peak year 2016.
Film career
Peak 2016 · back in prominent film roles after a quiet stretch. Film roles by billing, audience size and rating; 25+ votes. A show carries a single first-air date, so shows are not on the curve.
- 2015Screen debut· Unexpected
Counts from TMDB across their full career, self appearances out; a title counts in every role they held on it. The ring is the typical Midcredits score (the median percentile) of the role's titles that are on MovieCove, shown from 5 scored.
How do Gail Bean's films land?
Their typical MovieCove film has a Midcredits score in the 39th percentile, the median of all 6; across their 5 films with reception data, the typical film sits in the 44th percentile for acclaim.
- 75th and up7
- 50th to 74th3
- 25th to 49th5
- Below 25th3
Shape of the crowd
9 of their 18 titles are Mixed.
- Universally Loved4
- Divisive1
- Crowd Pleaser3
- Broadly Agreed1
- Mixed9
Reviewers score the acting 68/100 in their films, across 5 reviewed titles; fans 83, detractors 36. The element that speaks to their work as an actor.
Percentiles are each film's standing among all films on MovieCove; the typical film is the median, so one outlier cannot drag it. Percentiles and reviewer scores count the films IMDb credits them on, for now; the Midcredits score bands, the shape of the crowd and the two cards count their MovieCove titles, shows included (a show ranked among shows), appearances as themselves left out. A descriptor is the shape of a title's IMDb rating distribution against the catalog; "most divisive" needs a spread wider than half of all titles, and a card names only a principal credit: a craft role, and on a show a crew role or a run of episodes, never a courtesy credit or a one-off guest spot.
Who does Gail Bean work with?
People who share at least 2 of Gail Bean's MovieCove titles; Isaiah John shares the most, 2.
- Isaiah JohnShared titles: The Drop: A Snowfall Saga (2026), Snowfall (2017)See all 2 shared titles with Isaiah John
