Erin Gray

Known for ActingBorn 1950-01-07 (age 76)Honolulu, Hawaii, USA

The very beautiful and talented model, actress, 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.Read more

Movies & web series

Four Days At Dragon*Con

Crowfoot

The Torkelsons

Crystal Lake Memories: The Complete History of Friday the 13th

Mystery Science Theater 3000

Evening in Byzantium

Coach of the Year

The Fall Guy

Murder, She Wrote

The Rockford Files

Honor Thy Father and Mother: The True Story of the Menendez Murders

Breaking Home Ties

The Guild

The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson

Magnum, P.I.

The Wedding Bells

The New Lassie

Perry Mason: The Case of the Avenging Ace

L.A. Law

Profiler

Hunter

Addicted to His Love

Code of Vengeance

Born Beautiful

Dark Justice

Buck Rogers in the 25th Century

Vega$

Burke's Law

Social Misfits

Renegade

Hotel

Simon & Simon

Six Pack

The Ultimate Impostor

A Christmas Princess

A Dangerous Place

My Christmas Inn

I Married Who?

Silver Spoons

The Hitchhiker

Jane Doe: How to Fire Your Boss

The Love Boat

Jake and the Fatman

Silk Stalkings

Official Denial

Battle of the Network Stars

Buck Rogers in the 25th Century

Hunter Prey