Linda Gray

Personal Info

Known For

Acting

Known Credits

78

Gender

Female

Birthday

1940-09-12 (85 years old)

Place of Birth

Santa Monica, California, USA

Linda Gray

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.

Known For

  • The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson

    The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson

  • The Mike Douglas Show

    The Mike Douglas Show

  • Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen

    Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen

  • Dallas

    Dallas

  • Dallas

    Dallas

  • Golden Globe Awards

    Golden Globe Awards

  • Melrose Place

    Melrose Place

  • Wogan

    Wogan

  • The View

    The View

  • The Bob Hope Show

    The Bob Hope Show

  • The Bob Hope Show

    The Bob Hope Show

  • Champs-Elysées

    Champs-Elysées

  • Touched by an Angel

    Touched by an Angel

  • Good Day Live

    Good Day Live

  • Bambi

    Bambi

  • Emergency!

    Emergency!

  • BBC Play of the Month

    BBC Play of the Month

  • Intimate Portrait

    Intimate Portrait

  • 90210

    90210

  • McCloud

    McCloud

  • Stars in the House

    Stars in the House

  • La Chance aux chansons

    La Chance aux chansons

  • Switch

    Switch

  • Lovejoy

    Lovejoy

  • Dallas

    Dallas

  • All That Glitters

    All That Glitters

  • Dumbo

    Dumbo

  • Under the Yum-Yum Tree

    Under the Yum-Yum Tree

  • Under the Yum-Yum Tree

    Under the Yum-Yum Tree

  • Il était une fois Champs-Élysées

    Il était une fois Champs-Élysées

  • Auf los geht's los

    Auf los geht's los

  • Hand of God

    Hand of God

  • The Manhunter

    The Manhunter

  • Oscar

    Oscar

  • Pepper Dennis

    Pepper Dennis

  • Dogs

    Dogs

  • Models Inc.

    Models Inc.

  • Dallas: J.R. Returns

    Dallas: J.R. Returns

  • The Flight of the Swan

    The Flight of the Swan

  • Highway Heartbreaker

    Highway Heartbreaker

  • Grand-Daddy Day Care

    Grand-Daddy Day Care

  • Haywire

    Haywire

  • Bring Back... Dallas

    Bring Back... Dallas

  • McBride: It's Murder, Madam

    McBride: It's Murder, Madam

  • Bonanza: The Return

    Bonanza: The Return

  • The Entertainers

    The Entertainers

  • Ein Schloß am Wörthersee

    Ein Schloß am Wörthersee

  • Moment of Truth: Why My Daughter?

    Moment of Truth: Why My Daughter?

  • When The Cradle Falls

    When The Cradle Falls

  • This Morning

    This Morning

  • The Gambler: The Legend Continues

    The Gambler: The Legend Continues

  • Bring Back...

    Bring Back...

  • Hidden Moon

    Hidden Moon

  • Expecting Mary

    Expecting Mary

  • Prescience

    Prescience

  • Night of 100 Stars

    Night of 100 Stars

  • Dark Places

    Dark Places

  • Moment of Truth: Broken Pledges

    Moment of Truth: Broken Pledges

  • Dallas: War of The Ewings

    Dallas: War of The Ewings

  • That's What I Call Television

    That's What I Call Television

  • The Two Worlds of Jennie Logan

    The Two Worlds of Jennie Logan

  • Rodney Dangerfield's The Really Big Show

    Rodney Dangerfield's The Really Big Show

  • Wally's Will

    Wally's Will

  • The Wild and the Free

    The Wild and the Free

  • Cruising with Jane McDonald

    Cruising with Jane McDonald

  • Big Hawaii

    Big Hawaii

  • The Amazing World of Psychic Phenomena

    The Amazing World of Psychic Phenomena

  • Accidental Meeting

    Accidental Meeting

  • McCoy

    McCoy

  • Not in Front of the Children

    Not in Front of the Children

  • Bornebusch i tevefabriken

    Bornebusch i tevefabriken

  • Television: The First Fifty Years

    Television: The First Fifty Years

  • Night of 100 Stars II

    Night of 100 Stars II

  • To My Daughter With Love

    To My Daughter With Love

  • Perfect Match

    Perfect Match

  • Ladies of the '80s: A Divas Christmas

    Ladies of the '80s: A Divas Christmas

  • The Grass Is Always Greener Over the Septic Tank

    The Grass Is Always Greener Over the Septic Tank

  • Dallas Reunion: Return to Southfork

    Dallas Reunion: Return to Southfork