Linda Gray
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.
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- 2023 · Ladies of the '80s: A Divas Christmas as Lauren Ewing
- 2022 · Il était une fois Champs-Élysées as Self (archive footage)
- 2020 · Stars in the House as Self
- 2019 · Prescience as Kathlyn Smith
- 2019 · Grand-Daddy Day Care as Blanche
- 2017 · Cruising with Jane McDonald as Herself
- 2016 · Wally's Will as Wally
- 2016 · Bornebusch i tevefabriken as Guest
- 2015 · Perfect Match as Gabby Taylor
- 2014 · Hand of God as Aunt Val
- 2012 · Hidden Moon as Eva Brighton
- 2012 · Dallas as Sue Ellen Ewing
- 2011 · The Flight of the Swan as Alexis' mother
- 2010 · Expecting Mary as Darnella
- 2009 · Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen as Self - Guest
- 2008 · 90210 as Victoria Brewer
- 2007 · That's What I Call Television as
- 2006 · Pepper Dennis as Barbara Meryl
- 2005 · Bring Back... as Self - Sue Ellen Ewing
- 2005 · McBride: It's Murder, Madam as Victoria Sawyer
- 2004 · Dallas Reunion: Return to Southfork as Self
- 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 · Moment of Truth: Broken Pledges as Eileen Stevens
- 1994 · Accidental Meeting as Jennifer Parris
- 1994 · To My Daughter With Love as Eleanor Monroe
- 1993 · Bonanza: The Return as Abigail 'Laredo' Stimmons
- 1993 · Intimate Portrait as Self
- 1993 · Moment of Truth: Why My Daughter? as Gayle Moffitt
- 1992 · Melrose Place as Hillary Michaels
- 1992 · Highway Heartbreaker as Catherine
- 1991 · The Entertainers as Laura
- 1991 · Rodney Dangerfield's The Really Big Show as Self
- 1991 · Oscar as Roxanne
- 1990 · Ein Schloß am Wörthersee as Self
- 1988 · This Morning as Self - Guest
- 1987 · The Gambler, Part III: The Legend Continues as Mary Collins
- 1986 · Lovejoy as Cassandra Lynch
- 1985 · Night of 100 Stars II as Self
- 1984 · La Chance aux chansons as Self
- 1982 · Not in Front of the Children as Nancy Carruthers
- 1982 · Wogan as Self
- 1982 · Night of 100 Stars as Self
- 1982 · Champs-Elysées as Self
- 1980 · The Wild and the Free as Linda Davenport
- 1980 · Haywire as Nan
- 1979 · The Two Worlds of Jennie Logan as Elizabeth Harrington
- 1978 · The Grass Is Always Greener Over the Septic Tank as Leslie Corliss
- 1978 · Dallas as Sue Ellen Shepard
- 1978 · Dallas as Sue Ellen Shepard Ewing
- 1977 · Big Hawaii as
- 1977 · All That Glitters as
- 1977 · Auf los geht's los as Self
- 1976 · Dogs as Miss Engle
- 1976 · The Amazing World of Psychic Phenomena as
- 1975 · Switch as Alison
- 1975 · McCoy as
- 1974 · The Manhunter as
- 1973 · Dark Places as Woman on Hill
- 1972 · Emergency! as
- 1970 · McCloud as
- 1963 · Under the Yum-Yum Tree as College Girl (uncredited)
- 1963 · Under the Yum-Yum Tree as College girl
- 1962 · The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson as Self
- 1961 · The Mike Douglas Show as Self
- 1950 · The Bob Hope Show as Self
- 1950 · The Bob Hope Show as Wendy Truesdale
- 1948 · Bambi Awards as Self
- 1944 · Golden Globe Awards as Self - Co-Hostess/Nominee
- Future · Bring Back... Dallas as Self