Biography
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.
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Filmography
all 54
Movies 49
self 16
TV Shows 5
Voice 2
The Making of True Stories (2018)
Rumstick Road (2014)
And Everything Is Going Fine (2010)
Revolution #9 (2002)
Confessions of a Sociopath (2002)
Kate & Leopold (2001)
How High (2001)
Julie Johnson (2001)
The Mike O'Malley Show (1999)
Yesterday's Tomorrows (1999)
Coming Soon (1999)
Bliss (1997)
Drunks (1997)
Gray's Anatomy (1996)
Diabolique (1996)
Glory Daze (1995)
Beyond Rangoon (1995)
Bad Company (1995)
The Paper (1994)
Zelda (1993)
Twenty Bucks (1993)
King of the Hill (1993)
The Pickle (1993)
Monster in a Box (1992)
Straight Talk (1992)
To Save a Child (1991)
Laurie Anderson: The Collected Videos (1991)
The Image (1990)
Heavy Petting (1989)
Our Town (1989)
Beaches (1988)
Clara's Heart (1988)
Stars & Bars (1988)
Spalding Gray: Terrors of Pleasure (1987)
Trying Times (1987)
Swimming to Cambodia (1987)
True Stories (1986)
What You Mean We? (1986)
Seven Minutes in Heaven (1986)
Spenser: For Hire (1985)
Almost You (1985)
Variety (1985)
Hard Choices (1985)
Spalding Gray: A Life in Progress (1985)
The Killing Fields (1984)
Spalding Gray's Map of L.A. (1984)
Double Lunar Dogs (1984)
Sex and Death to the Age 14 (1982)
A Personal History of the American Theater (1982)
Anybody's Woman (1981)
Saturday Night Live (1975)
Great Performances (1971)
Love-In '72 (1970)
Thirty Second Spots: TV Commercials for Artists (1982-83)
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Known ForActing
GenderMale
Birthday1941-06-05
Deathday2004-01-11 (62 years old)
Birth PlaceProvidence, Rhode Island, United States of America
CitizenshipsUnited States of America
Also Known AsSpalding Grey
AwardsGuggenheim Fellowship, National Book Award
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