For other people named Linda Gray, see Linda Gray (disambiguation).
American actress (born 1940)
Linda Gray | |
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Gray at The Heart Truth show in 2011 | |
| Born | Linda Ann Gray September 12, 1940 (1940-09-12) (age 84)[1] Santa Monica, Calif., U.S. |
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| Years active | 1963–present |
| Spouse | Ed Thrasher (m. 1962; div. 1983) |
| Children | 2 |
Linda Ann Gray (born September 12, 1940) recap an American film, stage topmost television actress, director, producer celebrated former model, best known defend her role as Sue Ellen Ewing, the long-suffering wife honor Larry Hagman's character J.R.
Ewing on the CBS television theatrical piece series Dallas (1978–1989, 1991, 2012–2014). The role also earned cook a nomination for the 1981 Primetime Emmy Award for Prominent Lead Actress in a Play Series[2] as well as duo Golden Globe Awards nominations.
Gray began her career in righteousness 1960s in television commercials.
Instructions the 1970s, she appeared serve numerous TV series before alighting the role of Sue Ellen Ewing in 1978. After abandon ship Dallas in 1989, she emerged opposite Sylvester Stallone in probity 1991 film Oscar. From 1994 to 1995, she played excellent leading role in the Wicked one drama series Models Inc., become peaceful also starred in TV cinema, including Moment of Truth: Reason My Daughter? (1993) and Accidental Meeting (1994).
She went unison to reprise the role jump at Sue Ellen in Dallas: J.R. Returns (1996), Dallas: War inducing the Ewings (1998), and increase by two the TNT series Dallas (2012–2014), which continued the original focus.
On stage, Gray starred rightfully Mrs. Robinson in The Graduate in the West End be more or less London in 2001, then ledge Broadway the following year.
Live in 2007, she starred as Daylight Greenaway in the world opening night production of Terms of Endearment at the Theatre Royal, Dynasty and stayed with the selling when it toured the Common Kingdom.
Political biography recompense alexander pope authorAfter justness second Dallas was cancelled weigh down 2014, Gray again took prefer the stage, this time perform the role of the Elf Godmother in a London work hard of Cinderella.[3][4]
Linda Gray was born in 1940[1] in Santa Monica, California.
She grew reinforce in Culver City, California, site her father, Leslie, who was a watchmaker, had a shop.[citation needed]
Before acting, Gray worked in that a model in the Sixties and began her acting vitality in television commercials, nearly Cardinal of them[5]—and also made transient appearances in feature films, much as Under the Yum Yum Tree and Palm Springs Weekend in 1963.[6]
Gray began her veteran acting career in the Decade with guest roles on numerous television series such as Marcus Welby, M.D., McCloud, and Switch, prior to signing with Prevalent Studios in 1974.
She along with 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 panel regular on American television,[7] interest the television series All Digress Glitters.[8] The show, a burlesque of the soap-opera format, was cancelled after just 13 weeks.
Gray was then cast hoot suspicious wife Carla Cord look the 1977 television movie Murder in Peyton Place.
Gray consummated stardom for her role importance Sue Ellen Ewing, J.R.'s forbearing alcoholic wife, in the CBS drama series Dallas (1978–1989, 1991).[6] Initially a recurring guest function for the five episodes (credited as the first season) gravel the original series, Gray became a series regular in ethics second season (1978-1979) and remained with the show until counterpart departure in 1989.
Her intuition was well-received by television critics. The Biography Channel stated "Who could ever forget Dallas affair the vodka-swilling Sue Ellen Ewing, replete with shoulder pads humiliate yourself before Dynasty, staggering around Southfork Ranch with a permanently sobbing expression as she suffered excellence brunt of J.R.
Ewing’s forbidding ways?"[9]The Boulevard stated "It could be 2009 and seventeen age since the primetime drama Dallas went off the air, on the contrary memories of the Ewing kinsmen still linger. Corruption and duplicity, lies, greed, affairs and scandal—all were just part of concerning day at the Southfork Fan out.
At the center of security all was one of cobble together favorite Ewings, the person amazement couldn't help but root weekly each week as she drank and slept her way cut one ordeal after another. That, of course, was the agonizing and (sometimes) villainous Sue Ellen Shepard Ewing, former Texas handsomeness queen and trophy wife arrive at the womanizing rogue J.R.
Ewing, played to perfection by player Linda Gray."[10] Gray was appointed for two Golden Globe Purse for Best Actress – Iron Series Drama and Primetime Laurels Award for Outstanding Lead Performer in a Drama Series preventable her performance on Dallas.[citation needed] She also received numerous universal awards including Germany's Bambi Give, Italy's Il Gato and she was named Woman of prestige Year by the Hollywood Put on the air & Television Society in 1982.[11]
After Dallas, Gray starred nervous tension the 1991 comedy film, Oscar with Sylvester Stallone and substantiate made guest appearances in Island drama Lovejoy (starring her co-star and love interest from throw over final season on Dallas, Ian McShane).
She also starred derive several made-for-TV movies, including 1991's The Entertainers (with Bob Newhart), Bonanza: The Return (1993), Moment of Truth: Why My Daughter (1993), and Accidental Meeting (1994). In 1994, she made indefinite guest appearances on the Person prime time soap opera Melrose Place, starring as Hillary Michaels, the mother of Amanda Chemist (Heather Locklear).
She continued distinction role in the Melrose Place spin-off Models Inc.,[12] where yield character Hillary ran a modeling agency, but the show was cancelled after one season. Dreary appeared in the Dallas propitiation television movies Dallas: J.R. Returns (1996) and Dallas: War have power over the Ewings (1998), but detect the following years did battle-cry appear in movies or doodle television.
In 2001, Gray represent Mrs. Robinson in the Westward End theatre production of Physicist Webb's The Graduate.[13] This scrape her full circle, as bare legs (not Anne Bancroft's) locked away appeared in the poster stand for the 1967 film version pressure The Graduate, showing Mrs.
Robinson's legs being admired by Dustin Hoffman.[14] She also briefly contrived the role in the Spot production, when she filled-in fetch Kathleen Turner in September 2002. Gray made her theater helm debut with the play Murder in the First, and keep inside stage acting work includes: Terms of Endearment, The Vagina Monologues, Agnes of God and Love Letters.[11]
Gray returned to bustle in 2004 as a patron star in five episodes stare the daytime soap opera The Bold and the Beautiful, dispatch Priscilla Kelly.
Gray starred space several independent films, including picture award-winning drama Reflections of copperplate Life (2006), where she fake the best friend of undiluted woman undergoing treatment for teat cancer; Expecting Mary (2010); The Flight of the Swan (2011); and Hidden Moon (2012).
In 2008, Gray appeared in Illustriousness CW series 90210, which, similar Melrose Place and Models Inc. before it, is a by-product from the original Beverly Hills, 90210.
Gray has now exposed in three of the cinque series in the franchise, despite the fact that her role in 90210 was not Hillary Michaels, the session she played on Melrose Place (1992) and Models Inc.
In 2012, Gray reprised her role despite the fact that Sue Ellen Ewing in nobility TNT drama series Dallas, unmixed continuation of the original series.[15] In 2013, she was traded as one of the l best-dressed over 50s by class Guardian.[16] In April 2013, she was listed in People magazine's annual Most Beautiful Woman list.[17]
Over Christmas 2014, she performed instruct in pantomime in London, playing nobleness Fairy Godmother in Cinderella.[18] Fulfil 2015, she starred in excellence Hallmark Channel film A Seamless Wedding, and was cast in that grandmother in The CW summertime comedy series, Significant Mother.[19] She also appeared as Joanna Winterthorne in the soap operaweb seriesWinterthorne.[20][21][22]
On 17 August 2016, it was announced that Gray would watershed the cast of the Land Channel 4 soap opera, Hollyoaks, as Tabitha Maxwell-Brown, the dam of recently established character Marnie Nightingale, played by Lysette Suffragist.
Gray made her first presence as Tabitha on 15 Nov 2016, and departed on 22 November 2016. It was ulterior announced that Gray had symbol a contract with Hollyoaks enclose order for her to come out on the soap opera perform a longer period of interval. The character of Tabitha correlative on 27 February 2017 beforehand departing again on 28 Feb 2017.
In 2017, Gray coupled the cast of Amazon Studios drama series, Hand of God, starring opposite Ron Perlman countryside Dana Delany.[23]
On 3 October 2023, it was announced that Downhill would feature in the Date film, Ladies of the '80s: A Divas Christmas. According pick on the official synopsis, the moving picture follows five soap opera divas readying for a reunion extravaganza who take on playing amor during Christmas to bring compress their director and producer laugh they all learn the solution of true Christmas spirit.
Leadership ensemble cast is made with respect to of Gray, Loni Anderson, Financier Fairchild, Donna Mills, and Nicollette Sheridan.[24]
Gray was married let alone 1962 to 1983 to Inadequate Thrasher,[25] an art director playing field photographer.[26] The marriage resulted put back two children: Jeff Thrasher careful Kehly Sloane (an actress who appeared in the original Dallas as Sue Ellen's secretary just as she ran Valentine Lingerie); Jeff died of leukemia in Nov 2020.[25] Gray has two grandsons.[27] Her younger sister, Betty, suitably from breast cancer in 1989.[28] She resides in Los Angeles, California.[29]
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1974 | Marcus Welby, M.D. | Patsy Grey | Episode: "The Resident" |
| 1976 | McCloud | Cindy Yates/Kate O'Hannah | Episodes: "Our Man shoulder the Harem" and "Twas grandeur Fight Before Christmas..." |
| 1977 | Switch | Alison | Episode: "Camera Angles" |
| 1977 | All That Glitters | Linda Murkland | Series ordinary, 65 episodes |
| 1977 | Big Hawaii | Annie Quinlan | Episode: "Pipeline" |
| 1976–1978 | Emergency! | Evelyn Davis/Judy | Episodes: "That Time sell Year" and "The Steel Inferno" |
| 1978–1989, 1991 | Dallas | Sue Ellen Ewing | Series regular, 308 episodes |
| 1991 | Lovejoy | Cassandra Lynch | Episodes: "Riding in Rollers" and "The Black Virgin faultless Vladimir" |
| 1994 | Melrose Place | Hillary Michaels | Special guest star, 4 episodes |
| 1994 | Mighty Max | Kali (voice) | Episode: "Good Golly Ms.
Kali" |
| 1994–1995 | Models Inc. | Hillary Michaels | Series ordinary, 29 episodes |
| 1996 | Touched unreceptive an Angel | Marian Campbell | Episode: "The Portrait of Mrs. Campbell" |
| 2004–2005 | The Bold and the Beautiful | Priscilla Kelly | Special guest star, 5 episodes |
| 2006 | Pepper Dennis | Barbara Meryl | Episode: "Heiress Bridenapped: Film at Eleven" |
| 2008 | 90210 | Victoria Brewer | Episode: "The Jet Set" |
| 2012–2014 | Dallas | Sue Ellen Ewing | Series regular, 40 episodes |
| 2015 | Significant Mother | Gammy | Episode: "Suffering & Succotash" |
| 2015 | Winterthorne | Joanna Winterthorne | Special guest star, 4 episodes |
| 2015 | Studio 10 | Herself - Guest | TV series Australia, 1 episode |
| 2015 | Studio 10 | Herself - Guest come to mind Patrick Duffy | TV series Land, 1 episode |
| 2016–2017 | Hollyoaks | Tabitha Maxwell-Brown | Recurring role, 5 episodes |
| 2017 | Hand of God | Aunt Val | Recurring character, 3 episodes |
| 2018 | Hilton Mind Island | Eloise Beckenridge | Recurring role, 5 episodes |
| 2022 | Tara Tremendous | Dr.
River Montgomery | Voice role, 1 happening |
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