When Jerald played Jill Hatch in an episode of the PBS anthology series American Playhouse in 1983, her professional on-screen career really got underway.
A year later, she made her feature film debut twice, as Genevieve in the military romance Swing Shift and Sue in the horror picture The Hills Have Eyes Part II.
In the fourth season of ABC’s Castle, Jerald joined the cast as Victoria “Iron” Gates, the precinct’s new captain, taking over for the deceased Roy Montgomery played by Ruben Santiago-Hudson.
Jerald tweeted in 2015 that she had been fired from the show and that she had been “saddened” and “surprised” by the news.
The showrunner of Castle Alexi Hawley said that it was “very difficult” to write Jerald out of the program.
Who played the female captain on Castle?
Penny Johnson Jerald played Captain Victoria Gates in Castle.
Why did Penny Johnson Jerald leave Castle?
TV Line claims that Jerald’s departure from the ABC crime drama was caused by fresh “creative tweaks” that were planned for the program when David Amann resigned as showrunner.