Linda Gray
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
Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Known Credits
79
Gender
Female
Birthday
1940-09-12 (84 years old)
Place of Birth
Santa Monica, California, USA
Acting

2022

Il était une fois Champs-Élysées as Self (archive footage)

2020

Stars in the House as Self

2019

Dumbo as Dreamland Audience

2019

Grand-Daddy Day Care as Blanche

2019

Prescience as Kathlyn Smith

2016

Wally's Will as Wally

2015

Perfect Match as Gabby Taylor

2014

Hand of God as Aunt Val

2012

Dallas as Sue Ellen Ewing

2012

Hidden Moon as Eva Brighton

2011

The Flight of the Swan as Alexis' mother

2010

Expecting Mary as Darnella

2008

90210 as Victoria Brewer

2007

That's What I Call Television as Not available

2006

Pepper Dennis as Barbara Meryl

2005

Bring Back... as Self - Sue Ellen Ewing

2005

McBride: It's Murder, Madam as Victoria Sawyer

2001

Good Day Live as Self

1999

Television: The First Fifty Years as Self / Sue Ellen Ewing (archive footage)

1998

Dallas: War of The Ewings as Sue Ellen Ewing

1997

The View as Self

1997

When The Cradle Falls as Helen Sawyer

1996

Dallas: J.R. Returns as Sue Ellen Ewing

1994

Touched by an Angel as Marian Campbell

1994

Models Inc. as Hillary Michaels

1994

To My Daughter With Love as Eleanor Monroe

1994

Moment of Truth: Broken Pledges as Eileen Stevens

1994

Accidental Meeting as Jennifer Parris

1993

Intimate Portrait as Self

1993

Bonanza: The Return as Abigail 'Laredo' Stimmons

1993

Moment of Truth: Why My Daughter? as Gayle Moffitt

1992

Melrose Place as Hillary Michaels

1992

Highway Heartbreaker as Catherine

1991

Oscar as Roxanne

1991

The Entertainers as Laura

1988

This Morning as Self - Guest

1986

Lovejoy as Cassandra Lynch

1982

Champs-Elysées as Self

1982

Wogan as Self

1982

Night of 100 Stars as Self

1982

Not in Front of the Children as Nancy Carruthers

1980

Haywire as Nan

1980

The Wild and the Free as Linda Davenport

1979

The Two Worlds of Jennie Logan as Elizabeth Harrington

1978

Dallas as Sue Ellen Shepard

1978

Dallas as Sue Ellen Shepard Ewing

1977

Auf los geht's los as Self

1977

All That Glitters as Not available

1977

Big Hawaii as Not available

1976

Dogs as Miss Engle

1975

Switch as Alison

1975

McCoy as Not available

1974

The Manhunter as Not available

1973

Dark Places as Woman on Hill

1972

Emergency! as Not available

1970

McCloud as Not available

1965

BBC Play of the Month as Mrs. Cowper-Cowper

1963

Under the Yum-Yum Tree as College Girl (uncredited)

1963

Under the Yum-Yum Tree as College girl

1950

The Bob Hope Show as Self

1950

The Bob Hope Show as Wendy Truesdale

1948

Bambi-Verleihung as Self

1944

Golden Globe Awards as Self - Co-Hostess/Nominee
Crew