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Gender: Female

Place of birth: Santa Monica, California, USA

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Movie Involvements: 23

TV Involvements: 17


Most Famous Work

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.

Most Famous Work

Melrose Place
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6

Melrose Place

(1992) Hillary Michaels
Dallas
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7

Dallas

(1978) Sue Ellen Shepard
La Chance aux chansons
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0
90210
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6

90210

(2008) Victoria Brewer
Stars in the House
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0

Stars in the House

(2020) Self
Good Day Live
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3

Good Day Live

(2001) Self
Switch
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7

Switch

(1975) Alison
Bambi Awards
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9

Bambi Awards

(1948) Self

Acting

Year Character Movie/Tv
2023 Lauren Ewing
2022 Self (archive footage)
2020 Self
2019 Kathlyn Smith
Blanche
2017 Herself
2016 Wally
Guest
2015 Gabby Taylor
2014 Aunt Val
2012 Eva Brighton
Sue Ellen Ewing
2011 Alexis' mother
2010 Darnella
2009 Self - Guest
2008 Victoria Brewer
2007 N/A
2006 N/A
2005 Self - Sue Ellen Ewing
Victoria Sawyer
2004 Self
2001 Self
1999 Self / Sue Ellen Ewing (archive footage)
1998 Sue Ellen Ewing
1997 Self
Helen Sawyer
1996 Sue Ellen Ewing
1994 Hillary Michaels
Eileen Stevens
Jennifer Parris
Eleanor Monroe
1993 Abigail 'Laredo' Stimmons
Self
Gayle Moffitt
1992 Hillary Michaels
Catherine
1991 Laura
Self
Roxanne
1990 Self
1988 Self - Guest
1987 Mary Collins
1986 Cassandra Lynch
1985 Self
1984 Self
1982 Nancy Carruthers
Self
Self
Self
1980 Linda Davenport
Nan
1979 Elizabeth Harrington
1978 Leslie Corliss
Sue Ellen Shepard Ewing
Sue Ellen Shepard
1977 N/A
N/A
Self
1976 Miss Engle
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1975 Alison
N/A
1974 N/A
1973 Woman on Hill
1972 N/A
1970 N/A
1963 College girl
College Girl (uncredited)
1962 Self
1961 Self
1950 Wendy Truesdale
Self
1948 Self
Self
Year Character Movie/Tv

Production

Year Role Movie/Tv
1994 Co-Producer
Year Role Movie/Tv

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