The Linda Gray Handbook - Everything you need to know about Linda Gray

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Linda Ann Gray (born September 12, 1940) is an American film, stage and television actress, director, producer and former model.
Gray is best known for her role as Sue Ellen Ewing on the long-running CBS television drama series Dallas (1978–1989), for which she was nominated for two Golden Globe Award and Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series. She played a leading role on the Fox drama series Models Inc. from 1994 to 1995, played roles in several made-for-TV movies, appeared on movies like Oscar and Expecting Mary and performed in stage productions such as The Graduate and Terms of Endearment. As of 2012 she starred in the TNT series Dallas.

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In easy to read chapters, with extensive references and links to get you to know all there is to know about Linda Gray's Early life, Career and Personal life right away. A quick look inside: Linda Gray, Accidental Meeting, All That Glitters (TV series), Dallas: J.R. Returns, Dallas: War of the Ewings, Dallas (1978 TV series), Dallas (2012 TV series), Expecting Mary, Larry Hagman, Lindsay Wagner, Love Letters (play), Models Inc., Murder in Peyton Place, Oscar (1991 film), Pepper Dennis, Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series, Sue Ellen Ewing, The Graduate (novel), The Two Worlds of Jennie Logan 97…and more pages!

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• Publié par: Emereo Publishing
• Date de parution: 12 avril 2013
• Nombre de lectures: 1
• EAN13: 9781486481149
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 5 Mo

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Contents

Articles Linda Gray Accidental Meeting All That Glitters (TV series) Dallas: J.R. Returns

Dallas: War of the Ewings

Dallas (1978 TV series) Dallas (2012 TV series) Expecting Mary Larry Hagman Lindsay Wagner Love Letters (play) Models Inc. Murder in Peyton Place Oscar (1991 film) Pepper Dennis Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series Sue Ellen Ewing The Graduate (novel) The Two Worlds of Jennie Logan

References Article Sources and Contributors Image Sources, Licenses and Contributors

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Linda Gray

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Born

Ed Thrasher (1962–1983) (divorced) 2 children

Life and career

Linda Gray

Years active

Website

[1] www.lindagray.com

Gray atThe Heart Truthshow in 2011. Linda Ann Gray September 12, 1940 Santa Monica, California, United States

1963–present

Spouse(s)

[2] Linda Ann Gray(born September 12, 1940 ) is an American film, stage and television actress, director, producer and former model.

Gray began her professional acting career in the 1970s, with guest roles on many television series such asMarcus [7] Welby, M.D.,McCloudandSwitch. She also appeared in the filmsThe Big Rip-Off(1975) andDogs(1976).

Before acting Gray worked as a model in the 1960s, and began her acting career in television commercials—nearly [4] 400 of them—and also made brief appearances in feature films, such asUnder the Yum Yum TreeandPalm [5] Springs Weekendin 1963. In the 1967 filmThe Graduate, the legs featured on the movie along with promotional [6] poster was not of Anne Bancroft's, but of Linda Gray's, where "...she was paid $25 for one leg", she said.

Early years [2] Linda Ann Gray was born on September 12, 1940, in Santa Monica, California. She grew up in Culver City, California, where her father Leslie, who was a watchmaker, had a shop. Her mother, Nadia Kujnir-Herescu Gray (November 27, 1923 - June 13, 1994) was born in Bucharest, Romania. Her stepfather was the Romanian prince and pilot Constantin Bazu Cantacuzino; Linda Gray also has a stepsister, the writer Maria Ioana Cantacuzino who lives in France.

Linda Gray

Gray is best known for her role as Sue Ellen Ewing on the long-running CBS television drama seriesDallas (1978–1989), for which she was nominated for two Golden Globe Award and Primetime Emmy Award for [3] Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series. She played a leading role on the Fox drama seriesModels Inc.from 1994 to 1995, played roles in several made-for-TV movies, appeared on movies likeOscarandExpecting Maryand performed in stage productions such asThe GraduateandTerms of Endearment. As of 2012 she starred in the TNT seriesDallas.

Linda Gray

In 1977, she was cast as fashion model Linda Murkland, the first transgender series regular on American [8] [9] television, in the television seriesAll That Glittersshow, a spoof of the soap opera format, was cancelled. The after just 13 weeks. Gray was then cast as suspicious wife Carla Cord in the 1977 television movieMurder in Peyton Place.

Dallas

Gray achieved stardom for her role as Sue Ellen Ewing, J.R.'s long-suffering alcoholic wife, in the CBS drama seriesDallas [5] (1978–89, 1991). Initially a recurring guest role for the five-episode first series, Gray became a series regular later in 1978 and remained with the show until 1989. Her character was well received by television critics.The Biography Channelsaid, "Who could ever forget Dallas with the gin-swilling Sue Ellen Ewing, replete with shoulder pads long beforeDynasty, staggering around Southfork Ranch with a permanently tearful expression as she suffered the brunt of J.R. [10] Ewing’s evil ways?"The Boulevardmagazine said, "It may be 2009 Linda Gray with Larry Hagman in 2009 and seventeen years since the primetime dramaDallaswent off the air, but memories of the Ewing family still linger. Corruption and betrayal, lies, greed, affairs and scandal—all were just part of another day at the Southfork Ranch. At the center of it all was one of our favorite Ewings, the person we couldn't help but root for each week as she drank and slept her way through one ordeal after another. This, of course, was the tortured and (sometimes) villainous Sue Ellen Shepard Ewing, former Texas beauty queen and trophy wife of the womanizing rogue J.R. Ewing, played to perfection by [11] actress Linda Gray." Gray was nominated for two Golden Globe Award for Best Actress–Television Series Drama and Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series for her performance on [12] Dallasalso received numerous international awards including Germany. She ’s Bambi Award, Italy’s Il Gato and [12][13] she was named Woman of the Year by the Hollywood Radio & Television Society in 1982.

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AfterDallas AfterDallas, Gray starred in the 1991 comedy filmOscarwith Sylvester Stallone and then made guest appearances in British dramaLovejoy(starring her co-star and love interest from her final series onDallas, Ian McShane). She also starred in several made-for-TV movies, including 1991'sThe Entertainers(with Bob Newhart),Bonanza: The Return(1993),Moment of Truth: Why My Daughter(1993), andAccidental Meeting(1994). In 1994, she made several guest appearances on the Fox prime time soap operaMelrose Place, starring as as Hillary Michaels, the mother of Amanda Woodward (Heather Locklear). She continued the role in [14] theMelrose Placespin-offModels Inc.her character Hillary, where ran a modelling agency, but the show was cancelled after one season.

Gray appeared in theDallasreunion television moviesDallas: J.R. Returns(1996) andDallas: War of the Ewings(1998), but in the following years did not appear in movies or on television.

In 2001, Gray portrayed Mrs. Robinson in the West End theatre [15] production of Charles Webb'sThe Graduatebrought her full. This circle, as her legs (not Anne Bancroft's) were the ones in the famous scene in the movieThe Graduatewhere Mrs. Robinson's legs are [16] admired by Dustin Hoffman. Gray made her theater directing debut with playMurder in the First, and other acting stage work includes Terms of Endearment,The Vagina Monologues,Agnes of Godand [13] Love Letters.

Recent years

Linda Gray atThe Heart Truthfashion show in February, 2011.

Gray returned to television in 2004 as a guest star in five episodes daytime soap operaThe Bold and the Beautiful, playing Priscilla Kelly. Gray starred in several independent films, including the award-winning dramaReflections of a Life(2006), where she played the best friend of a woman undergoing treatment for breast cancer;Expecting Mary(2010);The Flight of [7] the Swan(2011); andHidden Moon(2012). In 2008, Gray appeared in The CW series90210, which, likeMelrose PlaceandModels Inc.before it, is a spin-off from the originalBeverly Hills, 90210. Gray has now appeared in three of the five series in the franchise, though her role in90210was not Hillary Michaels, the character she played onMelrose Place(1992) andModels Inc. In 2012, Gray reprised her role as Sue Ellen Ewing on the TNT drama seriesDallas, a continuation of the original [17][18] series.

Personal life Gray was married for 21 years to Ed Thrasher, an art director and photographer who designed many iconic album [2] covers throughout the 60s and 70s. The marriage resulted in two children: Jeff Thrasher and Kehly Sloane. Gray also has two grandsons, Ryder and Jack Sloane. Her younger sister, Betty, died in 1989 from breast cancer. Gray was also the aunt (by marriage) of actress Lindsay Wagner, best known asThe Bionic Woman. She resides in Los [19] Angeles, California.

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1976

Not in Front of the Children

Dallas: J.R. Returns

Miss Engle

Alison

1963

1974

Hillary Michaels

Kali (voice)

Jennifer Parris

Nancy Carruthers

Mary Collins

Sue Ellen Ewing

Mighty Max

Accidental Meeting

Cover poster leg model

uncredited

TV movie

Role

TV movie

TV movie

1 episode

TV movie

TV movie

1994–95

1 episode

TV movie

TV movie

4 episodes

1 episode

TV movie

29 episodes

TV movie

TV movie

Girl at Pool with Yellow Swimsuit

TV movie

TV movie

2 episodes

4

uncredited

1 episode

Notes

TV movie

2 episodes

TV movie

1978

1979

Big Hawaii

TV movie

2 episodes

Unknown episodes

1 episode

Moment of Truth: Why My Daughter?

Bonanza: The Return

The Grass Is Always Greener Over the Septic Tank

Emergency!

All That Glitters

The Two Worlds of Jennie Logan

1976–78

The Entertainers

Oscar

308 episodes

TV movie

Title

Highway Heartbreaker

1978–89, 1991

1982

1987

Dallas

The Gambler III: The Legend Continues

The Wild and the Free

1997

1998

1996

1993

1998

Linda Gray

1991

Sue Ellen Shepard Ewing Lockwood

The Graduate

Marcus Welby, M.D.

Palm Springs Weekend

Laura

Abigail 'Laredo' Stimmons

Roxanne

Dallas: War of the Ewings

Touched by an Angel

Star of Jaipur

Gayle Moffitt

Melrose Place

Moment of Truth: Broken Pledges

When the Cradle Falls

Evelyn Davis/Judy

Elizabeth Harrington

Eileen Stevens

Dogs

Carla Cord

Leslie Corliss

Sue Ellen Shepard Ewing Lockwood

McCloud

Marian Campbell

Hillary Michaels

Helen Sawyer

Linda Trask

Catherine

Eleanor Monroe

Nan

Annie Quinlan

Cassandra Lynch

Cindy Yates/Kate O'Hannah

Linda

Murder in Peyton Place

The Big Rip-Off

Year

Lovejoy

Film and Television

Patsy Grey

TV movie

Switch

Linda Murkland

1976

1967

1977

1975

To My Daughter with Love

Models Inc.

1980

1991

1994

1992

Filmography

Haywire

Reflections of a Life

McBride: It's Murder, Madam

The Bold and the Beautiful

Pepper Dennis

TV Land Award

Soap Opera Digest Award

2006

1986

Category

Golden Globe Award for Best Actress–Television Series Drama

The Flight of the Swan

Dallas

2010

2011

2012

2012–present

Expecting Mary

2006

2006

2005

Linda Gray

2004–05

Golden Globe Award

Golden Globe Award

Year

1982

Il Gato

Bambi Award

Emmy Award

1983

[1] http://www.lindagray.com [2] Linda Gray Biography (1940–) (http://www.filmreference.com/film/21/Linda-Gray.html), film reference, Retrieved March 31, 2012 [3] Moir, Jan (July 10, 2006). "I was the very first desperate housewife" (http:/ /www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/tvandradio/3653731/ I-was-the-very-first-desperate-housewife.html). London: Daily Telegraph. . Retrieved 2010-08-31. [4] Linda Gray on AllMovie Linda Gray (http:/ /www.allmovie.com/artist/linda-gray-p28372), AllMovie, Retrieved March 31, 2012 [5] Linda Gray- Biography (http://movies.yahoo.com/person/linda-gray/biography.html), Yahoo!, Retrieved March 31, 2012 [6] I was the leg in The Graduate poster! Actress Linda Gray reveals how she stood in for Anne Bancroft in shoot for 1967 movie (http:/ /www. dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-2270335/I-leg-The-Graduate-poster-Actress-Linda-Gray-reveals-stood-Anne-Bancroft-shoot-1967-movie. html?ito=feeds-newsxml), DailyMail.co.uk retrieved 29 January 2013. [7] Filmography by type for Linda Gray (http:/ /www.imdb.com/name/nm0336782/filmotype), Internet Movie Database, Retrieved March 31, 2012 [8]Stein, p. 177 [9] Clarke, Gerald (1977-04-25). "Eve's Rib and Adam's Yawn" (http:/ /www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,918874,00.html). TIME. . Retrieved 2008-11-25. [10] "Linda Gray- Biography on Gray" (http:/ /www.thebiographychannel.co.uk/biographies/linda-gray.html).Biography.com(United States: The Biography Channel). . Retrieved February 18, 2012. [11] "Linda Gray: An Accomplished Actress with Knockout Star Power" (http:/ /www.lindagray.com/theboulevardpageone.jpg).Ruth Bashinsky(United States: The Boulevard Magazine). March 2009. . Retrieved March 25, 2012. [12] Awards for Linda Gray (http:/ /www.imdb.com/name/nm0336782/awards), Retrieved March 31, 2012 [13] Linda Gray official website–Biography (http://www.lindagray.com/biography.html), Retrieved March 31, 2012

1981

Victoria Brewer

Soap Opera Digest Award

Soap Opera Digest Award

TV movie

5

5 episodes

Awards and nominations

90210

2008

Best Actress on Television

Pop Culture Award

Nominated

Won

Nominated

Nominated

Nominated

Series regular

Outstanding Actress in a Leading Role on a Prime Time Serial

Sue Ellen Ewing

1 episode

Soap Opera Digest Award

1 episode

1986

Barbara Meryl

References

Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series

Woman of the Year

Hidden Moon

Favorite Super Couple on a Prime Time Serial

Outstanding Actress in a Leading Role: Prime Time

Favorite Super Couple on a Prime Time Serial

Priscilla Kelly

Victoria Sawyer

Best Actress on international series

Award

Work

Dallas

Hollywood Radio & Television Society

Golden Globe Award for Best Actress–Television Series Drama

Nominated

Result

Won

Nominated

Eva Brighton

Darnella

Alexi's mother

Linda

Nominated

Won

Won

Linda Gray

[14] "'Models Inc.': Perfect for SGTV : SG Stands for Superb Garbage, Raised Here to an Art Form" (http:/ /articles.latimes.com/1994-07-06/ entertainment/ca-12492_1_beautiful-model).The Los Angeles Times. . Retrieved 2011-01-12. [15] The Graduate's London term ends (http:/ /news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/1768900.stm), BBC News, 18 January 2002, Retrieved March 31, 2012 [16] (http://www.playbill.com/news/article/62239-Linda-Grays-Leg-Has-Long-History-in-The-Graduate) Playbill, 20 September 2001, Retrieved August 18, 2012 [17] Red hot at 70! Linda Gray sizzles on catwalk as she prepares to return to the small screen in Dallas remake (http:/ /www.dailymail.co.uk/ tvshowbiz/article-1355571/Linda-Gray-prepares-return-small-screen-Dallas-remake.html), Dailymail.co.uk, 11 February 2011, Retrieved March 31, 2012 [18]Joyce Eng/www.tvguide.com/News/, TNT Orders Dallas Reboot to Series, Will Offer Sneak Peek Next Week (http:/ TNT-Dallas-Reboot-1035052.aspx), TV Guide, Jul 8, 2011, Retrieved March 31, 2012 [19] Linda Gray- Biography (http:/ /www.thebiographychannel.co.uk/biographies/linda-gray.html), Sky Digital, Retrieved March 31, 2012

External links  Linda Gray's Official Web Site (http://www.lindagray.com/)  Linda Gray (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0336782/) at the Internet Movie Database  BBC interview with Linda Gray and a review of her performance on stage inTerms of Endearment(http://www. bbc.co.uk/gloucestershire/content/articles/2007/10/29/review_terms_of_endearment_feature.shtml)

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Accidental Meeting

Accidental Meeting

Accidental Meeting Directed byMichael Zinberg

Produced by

Written by

Starring

Music by

Cinematography

Editing by

Distributed by

Release date(s)

Running time

Country

Language

Walter Klenhard

Christopher Horner Pete Best

Linda Gray Linda Purl

Patrick Williams

Michael W. Watkins

Robert L. Sinise David L. Bertman

USA Network

March 17, 1994

92 minutes

USA

English

Accidental Meetingis a 1994 made-for-tv thriller film directed by Michael Zinberg, and starring Linda Gray and [1] Linda Purl. The film was promoted as 'the female version ofStrangers on a Train(1951)'.

Plot Jennifer's husband is committing adultery. Maryanne's boss treats her like dirt. After an accidental meeting, the women decide to kill each other's men. Jennifer goes through with the deal, but Maryanne backs out. Jennifer, enraged, will not rest until Maryanne lives up to her part of the deal.

Cast  Linda Gray as Jennifer Parris  Linda Purl as Maryanne Bellmann  Leigh McCloskey as Richard  Ernie Lively as Obrenski  David Hayward as Jonathan Holtman  Kent McCord as Jack Parris  Lorna Scott as Lynn  Nancy Hochman as Julie  Bethany Richards as Zoe  Steve Tom as Hallman  Duke Stroud as Palmer

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Accidental Meeting

References [1]Encyclopedia of Television Film Directors: Volume 1by Jerry Roberts. p. 642

External links Accidental Meeting(http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0109039/) at the Internet Movie Database

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