Linda Gray

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Biography: Linda Ann Gray (born September 12, 1940) is an American film, stage and television actress, director, producer and former model, best known for her role as Sue Ellen Ewing, the long-suffering wife of Larry Hagman's character J.R. Ewing on the CBS television drama series Dallas (1978–1989, 1991, 2012–2014), for which she was nominated for the 1981 Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series. The role also earned her two Golden Globe Awards. Gray began her career in the 1960s in television commercials. In the 1970s, she appeared in numerous TV series before landing the role of Sue Ellen Ewing in 1978. After leaving Dallas in 1989, she appeared opposite Sylvester Stallone in the 1991 film Oscar. From 1994 to 1995, she played a leading role in the Fox drama series Models Inc., and also starred in TV movies, including Moment of Truth: Why My Daughter? (1993) and Accidental Meeting (1994). She went on to reprise the role of Sue Ellen in Dallas: J.R. Returns (1996), Dallas: War of the Ewings (1998), and in the TNT series Dallas (2012–2014), which continued the original series. On stage, Gray starred as Mrs. Robinson in The Graduate in the West End of London in 2001, then on Broadway the following year. In 2007, she starred as Aurora Greenaway in the world premiere production of Terms of Endearment at the Theatre Royal, York and stayed with the production when it toured the United Kingdom. After the second Dallas was cancelled in 2014, Gray again took to the stage, this time in the role of the Fairy Godmother in a London production of Cinderella. Linda Gray was born in 1940 in Santa Monica, California. She grew up in Culver City, California, where her father, Leslie, who was a watchmaker, had a shop. Before acting, Gray worked as a model in the 1960s and began her acting career in television commercials, nearly 400 of them—and also made brief appearances in feature films, such as Under the Yum Yum Tree and Palm Springs Weekend in 1963. Gray began her professional acting career in the 1970s with guest roles on many television series such as Marcus Welby, M.D., McCloud, and Switch, prior to signing with Universal Studios in 1974. She also appeared in the films The Big Rip-Off (1975) and Dogs (1976). In 1977, she was cast as fashion model Linda Murkland, the first transgender series regular on American television, in the television series All That Glitters. The show, a spoof of the soap-opera format, was cancelled after just 13 weeks. Gray was then cast as suspicious wife Carla Cord in the 1977 television movie Murder in Peyton Place. ... Source: Article "Linda Gray" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.

Department: Acting

Place of Birth: Santa Monica, California, USA

Birthday: September 12, 1940

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Gender: Female

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Oscar
Dark Places
Expecting Mary
Dallas: J.R. Returns
Rodney Dangerfield's The Really Big Show
The Flight of the Swan
Hidden Moon
The Gambler, Part III: The Legend Continues
Dallas - War of The Ewings
Ladies of the '80s: A Divas Christmas
The Grass Is Always Greener Over the Septic Tank
The Two Worlds of Jennie Logan
When The Cradle Falls
Haywire
Dogs
Under the Yum-Yum Tree
Dallas Reunion: Return to Southfork
Perfect Match
Night of 100 Stars II
Wally's Will
Television: The First Fifty Years
The Amazing World of Psychic Phenomena
Moment of Truth: Why My Daughter?
Bring Back... Dallas
Moment of Truth: Broken Pledges
McBride: It's Murder, Madam
The Wild and the Free
Bonanza: The Return
Under the Yum-Yum Tree
Not in Front of the Children
Highway Heartbreaker
Prescience
The Entertainers
Accidental Meeting
Grand-Daddy Day Care
To My Daughter With Love
Night of 100 Stars