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Erin Gray
Honolulu, Hawaii, USA
An actress, model and author Erin Gray (born January 7, 1950) was one of the first models to successfully crossover into television. She is best known as "Kate Summers" on the hig…
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An actress, model and author Erin Gray (born January 7, 1950) was one of the first models to successfully crossover into television. She is best known as "Kate Summers" on the highly watched TV show "Silver Spoons" (1982), and "Colonel Wilma Deering" on the TV show "Buck Rogers in the 25th Century" (1979). Many women admired her commanding role as Col Deering, while many men admired her beautiful looks and sexy figure. Erin Gray was born on January 7, 1950 in Honolulu. Gray moved with her family from Hawaii to California when she was eight years old and graduated from Pacific Palisades High School. She was fifteen when a chance meeting with Nina Blanchard, head of one of Hollywood's top model agencies, convinced her what she wanted to do in life. Moving to New York, she became one of the town's most sought-after models, in elite company with Farrah Fawcett, Veronica Hamel and Susan Blakely. TV viewers encountered her commercials for Breck, Max Factor, Clairol, Camay Soap and RC Cola, and a classic spot--for English Leather cologne--in which she provocatively declared, "My men wear English Leather--or they wear nothing at all!" Between modeling assignments, she studied acting with well-known coach Warren Robertson and, when movie-TV offers came in, she was ready. Universal was impressed by her performances on such series as "Police Story" (1973) and "Gibbsville" (1976) and signed her to a seven-year contract. Under that pact, the studio co-starred her as a tough-minded newspaper reporter in Irwin Shaw's Evening in Byzantium (1978) (TV). Her performance scored with both critics and audiences, and led directly to the role in "Buck Rogers in the 25th Century" (1979). As a result, she has become a regular commuter between Hollywood and New York, the hub of the magazine and fashion world.
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2022
It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Murder
Movie Brianna
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2020
Finding Grace
Movie Judge Ariel Harper
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2019
A Christmas Princess
Movie Queen Alice
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2019
Pandora
TV show Captain Beth Grant
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2018
My Christmas Inn
Movie Molly Anderson
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2017
Mystery Science Theater 3000
TV show Martha Masters
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2016
A Perfect Christmas
Movie Patricia Faber
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2014
Christmas in Palm Springs
Movie Mayor Tomlin
- 2013
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2012
I Married Who?
Movie Ethel Swift
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2012
Nesting
Movie Mrs. Deegan
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2011
Four Days At Dragon*Con
Movie Herself
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2011
Dreams Awake
Movie Hope Emrys
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2010
Hunter Prey
Movie Clea
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2008
Ghouls
Movie Liz
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2008
My True Self
Movie Mrs. Ellen Fields
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2008
Loaded
Movie Susan Price
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2007
The Guild
TV show Madeleine Twain
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2007
Jane Doe: How to Fire Your Boss
Movie Laura Sands
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2007
Nuclear Hurricane
Movie Jane
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2007
The Wedding Bells
TV show Candy Heller
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2006
I Love the '70s: Volume 2
TV show Self
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2006
Siren
Movie Sharon Cox
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2005
Caught in the Headlights
Movie Mrs. Jones
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2003
ManFast
Movie Gloria Day
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2002
Clover Bend
Movie Beth Clayton
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2001
Serial Intentions
Movie Virginia Madden
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2001
Social Misfits
Movie Sharon Cox
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2001
Touched by a Killer
Movie Liza Collins
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2000
The Last Producer
Movie Dee Freeman
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1996
Profiler
TV show Congresswoman Karen Archer
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1995
Crowfoot
Movie Nora
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1994
T-Force
Movie Mayor Pendleton
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1994
A Dangerous Place
Movie Audrey
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1994
Honor Thy Father and Mother: The True Story of the Menendez Murders
Movie Pamela Bozanich
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1994
Burke's Law
TV show Brenda Palmer
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1993
Official Denial
Movie Annie Corliss
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1993
Jason Goes to Hell: The Final Friday
Movie Diana Kimble
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1992
Renegade
TV show
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1991
Silk Stalkings
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