Linda Gray
Known for Acting · 76 credits
- Born
- 1940-09-12 (age 85)
- Place of birth
- Santa Monica, California, USA
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.
Known For
TV Shows (39)
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
1962
as Self
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
2009
as Self - Guest
Dallas
1978
as Sue Ellen Shepard / Sue Ellen Shepard Ewing
The Mike Douglas Show
1961
as Self
Golden Globe Awards
1944
as Self - Co-Hostess / Nominee
Melrose Place
1992
as Hillary Michaels
The View
1997
as Self
Touched by an Angel
1994
as Marian Campbell
Champs-Elysées
1982
as Self
Emergency!
1972
90210
2008
as Victoria Brewer
Wogan
1982
as Self
BBC Play of the Month
1965
as Mrs. Cowper-Cowper
Bambi
1948
as Self
Stars in the House
2020
as Self
Intimate Portrait
1993
as Self
Good Day Live
2001
as Self
McCloud
1970
Switch
1975
as Alison
The Bob Hope Show
1950
as Self / Wendy Truesdale
Lovejoy
1986
as Cassandra Lynch
Dallas
2012
as Sue Ellen Ewing
La Chance aux chansons
1984
as Self
Hand of God
2014
as Aunt Val
Pepper Dennis
2006
as Barbara Meryl
Models Inc.
1994
as Hillary Michaels
The Manhunter
1974
All That Glitters
1977
as Linda Murkland
Il était une fois Champs-Élysées
2022
as Self (archive footage)
Auf los geht's los
1977
as Self
Bring Back...
2005
as Self - Sue Ellen Ewing
Ein Schloß am Wörthersee
1990
as Self
Big Hawaii
1977
This Morning
1988
as Self - Guest
Bornebusch i tevefabriken
2016
as Guest
McCoy
1975
That's What I Call Television
2007
as Self
Cruising with Jane McDonald
2017
as Herself
exclusiv
1982
as Self
Movies (37)
Dumbo
2019
as Dreamland Audience
Oscar
1991
as Roxanne
Night of 100 Stars II
1985
as Self
Night of 100 Stars
1982
as Self
The Gambler: The Legend Continues
1987
as Mary Collins
Television: The First Fifty Years
1999
as Self / Sue Ellen Ewing (archive footage)
Expecting Mary
2010
as Darnella
Dallas: War of The Ewings
1998
as Sue Ellen Ewing
Dark Places
1973
as Woman on Hill
Under the Yum Yum Tree
1963
as College Girl (uncredited) / College girl
The Flight of the Swan
2011
as Alexis' mother
Grand-Daddy Day Care
2019
as Blanche
McBride: It's Murder, Madam
2005
as Victoria Sawyer
Moment of Truth: Why My Daughter?
1993
as Gayle Moffitt
The Two Worlds of Jennie Logan
1979
as Elizabeth Harrington
Hidden Moon
2012
as Eva Brighton
Rodney Dangerfield's The Really Big Show
1991
as Self
Haywire
1980
as Nan
Bonanza: The Return
1993
as Abigail 'Laredo' Stimmons
Dogs
1976
as Miss Engle
Prescience
2019
as Kathlyn Smith
Not in Front of the Children
1982
as Nancy Carruthers
Ladies of the '80s: A Divas Christmas
2023
as Lauren Ewing
Dallas: J.R. Returns
1996
as Sue Ellen Ewing
Highway Heartbreaker
1992
as Catherine
Moment of Truth: Broken Pledges
1994
as Eileen Stevens
The Grass Is Always Greener Over the Septic Tank
1978
as Leslie Corliss
Perfect Match
2015
as Gabby Taylor
To My Daughter With Love
1994
as Eleanor Monroe
Accidental Meeting
1994
as Jennifer Parris
Bring Back... Dallas
as Self
The Entertainers
1991
as Laura
Dallas Reunion: Return to Southfork
2004
as Self
When The Cradle Falls
1997
as Helen Sawyer
The Wild and the Free
1980
as Linda Davenport
Wally's Will
2016
as Wally
The Amazing World of Psychic Phenomena
1976
About 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 a… With 76 credits spanning from 1944 to 2023, Linda Gray has appeared in 37 films and 39 TV shows.
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- Dumbo (2019) — as Dreamland Audience
- Oscar (1991) — as Roxanne
- Night of 100 Stars II (1985) — as Self
- Night of 100 Stars (1982) — as Self
- The Gambler: The Legend Continues (1987) — as Mary Collins
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