Erin Gray
Born: 1950-01-07 in Honolulu, Hawaii, USA
Known For: Acting
Biography
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.
Filmography
2022
- It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Murder as Brianna
2020
- Finding Grace as Judge Ariel Harper
2019
- Pandora as Captain Beth Grant
- A Christmas Princess as Queen Alice
2018
- My Christmas Inn as Molly Anderson
2017
- Mystery Science Theater 3000 as Martha Masters
2016
- A Perfect Christmas as Patricia Faber
2014
- Christmas In Palm Springs as Mayor Tomlin
2012
- Nesting as Mrs. Deegan
- TableTop as Self - Guest
- I Married Who? as Ethel Swift
2011
- Dreams Awake as Hope Emrys
- Four Days At Dragon*Con as Herself
2010
- Hunter Prey as Clea
2008
- Loaded as Susan Price
- Ghouls as Liz
- My True Self as Mrs. Ellen Fields
2007
- The Guild as Madeleine Twain
- Nuclear Hurricane as Jane
- Jane Doe: How to Fire Your Boss as Laura Sands
- The Wedding Bells as Candy Heller
2006
- I Love the '70s: Volume 2 as Self
- Siren as Sharon Cox
2005
- Caught in the Headlights as Mrs. Jones
2003
- ManFast as Gloria Day
2002
- Clover Bend as Beth Clayton
2001
- Social Misfits as Sharon Cox
- Touched by a Killer as Liza Collins
- Serial Intentions as Virginia Madden
2000
- The Last Producer as Dee Freeman
1996
- Profiler as Congresswoman Karen Archer
1995
- Crowfoot as Nora
1994
- Burke's Law as Brenda Palmer
- T-Force as Mayor Pendleton
- Honor Thy Father and Mother: The True Story of the Menendez Murders as Pamela Bozanich
- A Dangerous Place as Audrey
1993
- Official Denial as Annie Corliss
- Jason Goes to Hell: The Final Friday as Diana Kimble
1992
1991
- Silk Stalkings
- Dark Justice
- The Torkelsons as Jennifer
1990
- Evening Shade
- Laker Girls as Julie Lawrence
1989
- Baywatch as Chief Monica Johnson
- The New Lassie
1988
- Perry Mason: The Case of the Avenging Ace as Captain Terry O'Malley
- Addicted to His Love as Jenny Barrett
1987
- Jake and the Fatman
- Breaking Home Ties as Carol
1986
- L.A. Law as Rochelle Peters
1985
- Code of Vengeance as Nadine Flowers
1984
- Murder, She Wrote as Andrea Dean
- Hunter as Kate Lawson
1983
- The Hitchhiker as Leslie
1982
- Hotel
- Silver Spoons as Kate Summers Stratton
- Six Pack as Lilah
- Born Beautiful as Betsy Forrest
1980
- Magnum, P.I. as Joy 'Digger' Doyle
- Coach of the Year as Paula DeFalco
1979
- Buck Rogers in the 25th Century as Wilma Deering
- Winter Kills as Beautiful Woman Three
- B. J. and the Bear
- Buck Rogers in the 25th Century as Col. Wilma Deering
- The Ultimate Impostor as Beatrice 'Bucky' Tate
- Buck Rogers in the 25th Century: Planet of the Slave Girls as Colonel Wilma Deering
1978
- Vega$
- Evening in Byzantium as Gail McKinnon
1977
- The Love Boat as Maggie Cook
1974
- The Rockford Files as Margaret 'Alta' Hatch
1967
- Malibu U as Self - Dancer