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Known For
Acting
Birthday
September 12, 1940
Place of Birth
Santa Monica, California, USA
Linda Gray
2.3 Popularity
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
7.4
Lauren Ewing
Ladies of the '80s: A Divas Christmas
2023
6.6
Self (archive footage)
Il était une fois Champs-Élysées
2022
0.0
Self
Stars in the House
2020
4.2
Kathlyn Smith
Prescience
2019
6.6
Dreamland Audience
Dumbo
2019
5.8
Blanche
Grand-Daddy Day Care
2019
8.5
Herself
Cruising with Jane McDonald
2017
🎬
0.0
Wally
Wally's Will
2016
0.0
Guest
Bornebusch i tevefabriken
2016
6.0
Gabby Taylor
Perfect Match
2015
Credits
Ladies of the '80s: A Divas Christmas
as Lauren Ewing
2023
7.4
Il était une fois Champs-Élysées
as Self (archive footage)
2022
6.6
Stars in the House
as Self
2020
0.0
Prescience
as Kathlyn Smith
2019
4.2
Dumbo
as Dreamland Audience
2019
6.6
Grand-Daddy Day Care
as Blanche
2019
5.8
Cruising with Jane McDonald
as Herself
2017
8.5
🎬
Wally's Will
as Wally
2016
0.0
Bornebusch i tevefabriken
as Guest
2016
0.0
Perfect Match
as Gabby Taylor
2015
6.0
Hand of God
as Aunt Val
2014
6.7
Hidden Moon
as Eva Brighton
2012
5.5
Dallas
as Sue Ellen Ewing
2012
7.0
The Flight of the Swan
as Alexis' mother
2011
7.6
Expecting Mary
as Darnella
2010
4.5
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
as Self - Guest
2009
5.1
90210
as Victoria Brewer
2008
5.8
🎬
That's What I Call Television
as Self
2007
0.0
Pepper Dennis
as Barbara Meryl
2006
5.3
Bring Back...
as Self - Sue Ellen Ewing
2005
6.0
McBride: It's Murder, Madam
as Victoria Sawyer
2005
6.6
🎬
Dallas Reunion: Return to Southfork
as Self
2004
0.0
🎬
Good Day Live
as Self
2001
3.0
🎬
Television: The First Fifty Years
as Self / Sue Ellen Ewing (archive footage)
1999
0.0
Dallas: War of The Ewings
as Sue Ellen Ewing
1998
5.5
The View
as Self
1997
4.3
When The Cradle Falls
as Helen Sawyer
1997
6.0
Dallas: J.R. Returns
as Sue Ellen Ewing
1996
5.5
Touched by an Angel
as Marian Campbell
1994
7.2
Models Inc.
as Hillary Michaels
1994
6.0
Moment of Truth: Broken Pledges
as Eileen Stevens
1994
4.0
Accidental Meeting
as Jennifer Parris
1994
2.0
To My Daughter With Love
as Eleanor Monroe
1994
8.0
Bonanza: The Return
as Abigail 'Laredo' Stimmons
1993
6.5
Intimate Portrait
as Self
1993
4.5
Moment of Truth: Why My Daughter?
as Gayle Moffitt
1993
4.8
Melrose Place
as Hillary Michaels
1992
5.9
Highway Heartbreaker
as Catherine
1992
1.0
The Entertainers
as Laura
1991
0.0
Rodney Dangerfield's The Really Big Show
as Self
1991
8.7
Oscar
as Roxanne
1991
6.3
Ein Schloß am Wörthersee
as Self
1990
5.8
This Morning
as Self - Guest
1988
5.2
The Gambler: The Legend Continues
as Mary Collins
1987
5.9
Lovejoy
as Cassandra Lynch
1986
7.3
Night of 100 Stars II
as Self
1985
8.0
La Chance aux chansons
as Self
1984
4.0
🎬
Not in Front of the Children
as Nancy Carruthers
1982
6.0
Wogan
as Self
1982
4.5
Night of 100 Stars
as Self
1982
6.7
Champs-Elysées
as Self
1982
6.3
The Wild and the Free
as Linda Davenport
1980
6.0
Haywire
as Nan
1980
5.0
The Two Worlds of Jennie Logan
as Elizabeth Harrington
1979
5.5
The Grass Is Always Greener Over the Septic Tank
as Leslie Corliss
1978
0.0
Dallas
as Sue Ellen Shepard
1978
6.8
Dallas
as Sue Ellen Shepard Ewing
1978
6.8
Big Hawaii
1977
5.0
🎬
All That Glitters
1977
8.0
Auf los geht's los
as Self
1977
0.0
Dogs
as Miss Engle
1976
5.4
The Amazing World of Psychic Phenomena
1976
6.0
Switch
as Alison
1975
6.7
🎬
McCoy
1975
5.0
The Manhunter
1974
5.0
Dark Places
as Woman on Hill
1973
5.5
Emergency!
1972
7.8
McCloud
1970
7.1
BBC Play of the Month
as Mrs. Cowper-Cowper
1965
5.0
Under the Yum-Yum Tree
as College Girl (uncredited)
1963
5.9
Under the Yum-Yum Tree
as College girl
1963
5.9
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
as Self
1962
7.5
The Mike Douglas Show
as Self
1961
5.4
The Bob Hope Show
as Self
1950
7.0
The Bob Hope Show
as Wendy Truesdale
1950
7.0
Bambi
as Self
1948
9.0
Golden Globe Awards
as Self - Co-Hostess / Nominee
1944
7.2
🎬
Bring Back... Dallas
as Self
N/A
0.0