Linda Gray
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- September 12, 1940 (age 86)
- Birthplace
- Santa Monica, California, USA
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
Filmography
Bring Back... Dallas
Movie · as Self
Ladies of the '80s: A Divas Christmas
Movie · as Lauren Ewing
Il était une fois Champs-Élysées
TV · as Self (archive footage) · 1 ep
Stars in the House
TV · as Self · 1 ep
Prescience
Movie · as Kathlyn Smith
Grand-Daddy Day Care
Movie · as Blanche
Dumbo
Movie · as Dreamland Audience
Cruising with Jane McDonald
TV · as Herself · 1 ep
Wally's Will
Movie · as Wally
Bornebusch i tevefabriken
TV · as Guest · 1 ep
Perfect Match
Movie · as Gabby Taylor
Hand of God
TV · as Aunt Val · 1 ep
Hidden Moon
Movie · as Eva Brighton
Dallas
TV · as Sue Ellen Ewing · 40 eps
The Flight of the Swan
Movie · as Alexis' mother
Expecting Mary
Movie · as Darnella
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
TV · as Self - Guest · 1 ep
90210
TV · as Victoria Brewer · 1 ep
That's What I Call Television
TV · as Self · 1 ep
Pepper Dennis
TV · as Barbara Meryl · 1 ep
McBride: It's Murder, Madam
Movie · as Victoria Sawyer
Bring Back...
TV · as Self - Sue Ellen Ewing · 1 ep
Dallas Reunion: The Return to Southfork
Movie · as Self
Good Day Live
TV · as Self · 1 ep
Television: The First Fifty Years
Movie · as Self / Sue Ellen Ewing (archive footage)
Dallas: War of The Ewings
Movie · as Sue Ellen Ewing
Star of Jaipur
Movie · as Linda Trask
When The Cradle Falls
Movie · as Helen Sawyer
The View
TV · as Self · 1 ep
Dallas: J.R. Returns
Movie · as Sue Ellen Ewing
Moment of Truth: Broken Pledges
Movie · as Eileen Stevens
Accidental Meeting
Movie · as Jennifer Parris
To My Daughter With Love
Movie · as Eleanor Monroe
Models Inc.
TV · as Hillary Michaels · 29 eps
Touched by an Angel
TV · as Marian Campbell · 1 ep
Moment of Truth: Why My Daughter?
Movie · as Gayle Moffitt
Bonanza: The Return
Movie · as Abigail 'Laredo' Stimmons
Intimate Portrait
TV · as Self · 1 ep
Highway Heartbreaker
Movie · as Catherine
Melrose Place
TV · as Hillary Michaels · 5 eps
Oscar
Movie · as Roxanne
Rodney Dangerfield's The Really Big Show
Movie · as Self
The Entertainers
Movie · as Laura
Ein Schloß am Wörthersee
TV · as Self · 1 ep
This Morning
TV · as Self - Guest · 1 ep
The Gambler: The Legend Continues
Movie · as Mary Collins
Lovejoy
TV · as Cassandra Lynch · 2 eps
Night of 100 Stars II
Movie · as Self
La Chance aux chansons
TV · as Self · 1 ep
Not in Front of the Children
Movie · as Nancy Carruthers
Night of 100 Stars
Movie · as Self
Wogan
TV · as Self · 1 ep
Champs-Elysées
TV · as Self · 1 ep
exclusiv
TV · as Self · 1 ep
Haywire
Movie · as Nan
The Wild and the Free
Movie · as Linda Davenport
The Two Worlds of Jennie Logan
Movie · as Elizabeth Harrington
The Grass Is Always Greener Over the Septic Tank
Movie · as Leslie Corliss
Dallas
TV · as Sue Ellen Shepard, Sue Ellen Shepard Ewing · 1 ep
All That Glitters
TV · as Linda Murkland · 65 eps
Big Hawaii
TV · 1 ep
Auf los geht's los
TV · as Self · 1 ep
Dogs
Movie · as Miss Engle
The Amazing World of Psychic Phenomena
Movie
Switch
TV · as Alison · 1 ep
McCoy
TV · 1 ep
The Manhunter
TV · 1 ep
Dark Places
Movie · as Woman on Hill
Emergency!
TV · 1 ep
McCloud
TV · as Cindy Yates (uncredited) · 2 eps
BBC Play of the Month
TV · as Mrs. Cowper-Cowper · 1 ep
Under the Yum Yum Tree
Movie · as College Girl (uncredited), College girl
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
TV · as Self · 3 eps
The Mike Douglas Show
TV · as Self · 2 eps
The Bob Hope Show
TV · as Self, Wendy Truesdale · 1 ep
Bambi
TV · as Self · 1 ep
Golden Globe Awards
TV · as Self - Co-Hostess / Nominee · 1 ep