September 18, 2020

Hello Fans,

This week's featured celebrity is none other than Dallas star Linda Gray! You remember her as Sue Ellen Ewing, wife of Larry Hagman's J.R. Ewing. Hey, didn't she shoot him?!

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Linda Gray

Learn More About Linda Gray, see Then & Now pictures, and find out What She's Been Up To on Celebrity Nooz

BIRTH DATE: September 12, 1940 in Santa Monica, California, USA

BIRTH NAME: Linda Ann Gray

CLAIM TO FAME: Linda Gray is an American film, stage and television actress, and former model, best known for her role as Sue Ellen Ewing, the long-suffering wife of Larry Hagman's J.R. on the CBS television drama series Dallas (1978-1989).

FAMILY LIFE: Gray was married for 21 years to art director and photographer Ed Thrasher. They have two children: Jeff Thrasher and Kehly Sloane.

INFO: Grew up in Culver City, California, with father Leslie, a watchmaker, and mother Marjorie.

Attended Notre Dame Academy in Culver City, California.

Worked as a model in the 1960s and began her acting career in television commercials, nearly 400 of them.

Began her professional acting career in the 1970s and signed with Universal Studios in 1974.

Served as a goodwill ambassador for the United Nations.

She was the aunt, by marriage, of actress Lindsay Wagner.

Owns a production company: LG Productions, Inc.

Her acting mentor was the late Barbara Bel Geddes.

Gray made her theater directing debut with the play Murder in the First, and other acting stage work includes Terms of Endearment, The Vagina Monologues, Agnes of God and Love Letters.

In April 2013, she was on the list of People magazine's Most Beautiful Woman.

TRIVIA: Her legs were used for the famous poster for The Graduate (1967) with Dustin Hoffman. And in 2001, Gray did her first ever nude scene when appearing in the London version of the play "The Graduate", then on Broadway the following year.

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.

Gray achieved stardom for her role as Sue Ellen Ewing, J.R.'s long-suffering alcoholic wife, in the CBS drama series Dallas (1978-1989).

She was nominated for the 1981 Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series for her work on 'Dallas'. The role also earned her two Golden Globe Award nominations.

She also received numerous international awards including Germany's Bambi Award, Italy's Il Gato and she was named Woman of the Year by the Hollywood Radio & Television Society in 1982.

Was fired during the 8th season of Dallas after she asked producers to let her direct a few episodes of the series. Her job was spared when Larry Hagman threatened to walk out in protest.

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.

Gray returned to television in 2004 as a guest star in five episodes of the daytime soap opera The Bold and the Beautiful, playing Priscilla Kelly.

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.

WHERE ARE THEY NOW: Gray still has a very active film and television career, but it looks like things are on hold for now. Hopefully, we will see her return to the screen soon. And I'm willing to bet, like most entertainers, she can't wait either!

CREDITS:

2019 Intuitions...Kathlyn Smith

2019 Grand-Daddy Day Care...Blanche

2018 Hilton Head Island (TV Series)...Eloise Beckenridge
- Decisions (2018) ... Eloise Beckenridge
- New Beginnings (2018) ... Eloise Beckenridge
- Reconcillation ... Eloise Beckenridge
- The Gauntlet ... Eloise Beckenridge
- Heavy Burdens ... Eloise Beckenridge

2017 Hand of God (TV Series)...Aunt Val
- You Can't Go Back (2017) ... Aunt Val
- Gathering Dust (2017) ... Aunt Val

2016-2017 Hollyoaks (TV Series)...Tabby Maxwell-Brown
- Episode #1.4601 (2017) ... Tabby Maxwell-Brown
- Episode #1.4532 (2016) ... Tabby Maxwell-Brown
- Episode #1.4531 (2016) ... Tabby Maxwell-Brown
- Episode #1.4527 (2016) ... Tabby Maxwell-Brown

2016 Wally's Will (Short)...Wally

2015 Significant Mother (TV Series)...Gammy
- Suffering & Succotash (2015) ... Gammy

2015 Winterthorne (TV Series)...Joanna Winterthorne
- Part I (2015) ... Joanna Winterthorne

2015 Perfect Match (TV Movie)...Gabby Taylor

2012-2014 Dallas (TV Series)...Sue Ellen Ewing
All 40 episodes

2012 Hidden Moon...Eva Brighton

2010 The Flight of the Swan...Alexis' mother

2010 A Very Mary Christmas...Darnella

2008 90210 (TV Series)...Victoria Brewer
- The Jet Set (2008) ... Victoria Brewer

2006 Pepper Dennis (TV Series)...Barbara Meryl
- Heiress Bridenapped (2006) ... Barbara Meryl

2006 Reflections of a Life (Short)...Linda

2005 McBride: It's Murder, Madam (TV Movie)...Victoria Sawyer

2004-2005 The Bold and the Beautiful (TV Series)...Priscilla Kelly
- Episode #1.4501 (2005) ... Priscilla Kelly
- Episode #1.4294 (2004) ... Priscilla Kelly
- Episode #1.4291 (2004) ... Priscilla Kelly (credit only)
- Episode #1.4290 (2004) ... Priscilla Kelly
- Episode #1.4289 (2004) ... Priscilla Kelly
- Episode #1.4288 (2004) ... Priscilla Kelly

1998 Star of Jaipur...Linda Trask

1998 Dallas: War of the Ewings (TV Movie)...Sue Ellen Ewing

1997 When the Cradle Falls (TV Movie)...Helen Sawyer

1996 Dallas: J.R. Returns (TV Movie)...Sue Ellen Ewing

1996 Touched by an Angel (TV Series)...Marian Campbell
- Portrait of Mrs. Campbell (1996) ... Marian Campbell

1994-1995 Models Inc. (TV Series)...Hillary Michaels
All 29 episodes

1994 Mighty Max (TV Series)...Kali
- Good Golly Ms. Kali (1994) ... Kali (voice)

1994 Melrose Place (TV Series)...Hillary Michaels
- Till Death Do Us Part (1994) ... Hillary Michaels
- Devil with the G-String On (1994) ... Hillary Michaels
- Imperfect Strangers (1994) ... Hillary Michaels
- The Bitch Is Back (1994) ... Hillary Michaels

1994 Moment of Truth: Broken Pledges (TV Movie)...Eileen Stevens

1994 Accidental Meeting (TV Movie)...Jennifer Parris

1994 To My Daughter with Love (TV Movie)...Eleanor Monroe

1993 Bonanza: The Return (TV Movie)...Abigail 'Laredo' Stimmons

1993 Moment of Truth: Why My Daughter? (TV Movie)...Gayle Moffitt

1992 Highway Heartbreaker (TV Movie)...Catherine

1991 The Entertainers...Laura

1991 Ein Schloß am Wörthersee (TV Series)...Linda Gray
- Saisonbeginn mit Hindernissen (1991) ... Linda Gray

1991 Lovejoy (TV Series)...Cassandra Lynch
- The Black Virgin of Vladimir (2 of 2) (1991) ... Cassandra Lynch
- Riding in Rollers (1 of 2) (1991) ... Cassandra Lynch

1978-1991 Dallas (TV Series)...Sue Ellen Ewing / Sue Ellen Shepard
308 episodes

1991 Oscar...Roxanne

1987 Kenny Rogers as The Gambler, Part III: The Legend Continues (TV Movie)...Mary Collins

1987 Pinocchio and the Emperor of the Night (voice)

1982 Not in Front of the Children (TV Movie)...Nancy Carruthers

1980 The Wild and the Free (TV Movie)...Linda

1980 Haywire (TV Movie)...Nan

1979 The Two Worlds of Jennie Logan (TV Movie)...Elizabeth Harrington

1978 The Grass Is Always Greener Over the Septic Tank (TV Movie)...Leslie Corliss

1976-1978 Emergency! (TV Series)...Evelyn Davis / Judy
- The Steel Inferno (1978) ... Evelyn Davis (as Linda Gray)
- That Time of Year (1976) ... Judy

1977 Big Hawaii (TV Series)...Annie Quinlan
- Pipeline (1977) ... Annie Quinlan

1977 Murder in Peyton Place (TV Movie)...Carla Cord

1977 All That Glitters (TV Series)...Linda Murkland

1977 Switch (TV Series)...Alison
- Camera Angles (1977) ... Alison

1976 Dogs...Miss Engle

1976 McCloud (TV Series)...Kate O'Hannah / Cindy Yates
- 'Twas the Fight Before Christmas... (1976) ... Kate O'Hannah
- Our Man in the Harem (1976) ... Cindy Yates (uncredited)

1976 Holmes and Yoyo (TV Series)...Dr. Fletcher
- The Last Phantom (1976) ... Dr. Fletcher

1975 McCoy (TV Series)
- The Big Ripoff (1975)

1974 Marcus Welby, M.D. (TV Series)...Patsy Grey
- The Resident (1974) ... Patsy Grey

1963 Palm Springs Weekend...Yellow-Swimsuited Girl at Pool (uncredited)

1963 Under the Yum Yum Tree...College Girl (uncredited)

To see Then & Now pictures of Linda Gray, visit: Celebrity Nooz