Spalding Gray

Known for ActingBorn 1941-06-05Died 2004-01-11Providence, Rhode Island, USA

Spalding Gray (June 5, 1941 – January 11, 2004) was an American actor, novelist, playwright, screenwriter and performance artist. He is best known for the autobiographical monologues that he wrote and performed for the theater in the 1980s and 1990s, as well as for his film adaptations of these works, beginning in 1987. He wrote and starred in several, working with different directors. Theater critics John Willis and Ben Hodges called Gray's monologues "trenchant, personal narratives delivered on sparse, unadorned sets with a dry, WASP, quiet mania." Gray achieved renown for his monologue Swimming to Cambodia, which he adapted as a 1987 film in which he starred; it was directed by Jonathan Demme. Other of his monologues that he adapted for film were Monster in a Box (1991), directed by Nick Broomfield, and Gray's Anatomy (1996), directed by Steven Soderbergh. Gray died by suicide at the age of 62 after jumping into New York Harbor on January 11, 2004. He had been struggling with depression and severe injuries following a car accident. Soderbergh made a documentary film about Gray's life, And Everything Is Going Fine (2010). An unfinished monologue and a selection from his journals were published in 2005 and 2011, respectively. Description above from the Wikipedia article Spalding Gray, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.Read more

Movies & web series

Confessions of a Sociopath

Zelda

Prisoner's Dilemma

Love-In '72

Spalding Gray: Terrors of Pleasure

Laurie Anderson: The Collected Videos

Our Town

Yesterday's Tomorrows

The Mike O'Malley Show

The Nanny

Alive from Off Center

The Killing Fields

What You Mean We?

Swimming to Cambodia

Spenser: For Hire

King of the Hill

Saturday Night Live

Beaches

True Stories

The Paper

And Everything Is Going Fine

Beyond Rangoon

Gray's Anatomy

To Save a Child

How High

Kate & Leopold

Monster in a Box

Almost You

Seven Minutes in Heaven

Straight Talk

Great Performances

Coming Soon

Twenty Bucks

Heavy Petting

The Farmer's Daughters

Julie Johnson

Bliss

Diabolique

Clara's Heart

Maraschino Cherry

Variety

Glory Daze

Revolution #9

The Pickle

Bad Company

Spalding Gray's Map of L.A.

The Image

Stars & Bars