Erin Gray Biography

Erin Gray is an American actress, perhaps best known for her roles as Colonel Wilma Deering in the science fiction television series Buck Rogers in the 25th Century and as Kate Summers-Stratton in the situation comedy Silver Spoons. Erin Richards.

Erin Gray Age

ErinGray was born on January 7th, 1950, Honolulu, Territory of Hawaii. She is 69 years old as of 2019.

Erin Gray Education

Gray attended Redwood High School and finished her last semester at Pacific Palisades High School. She briefly attended college at UCLA, majoring in mathematics, but she left school to pursue a career in modeling and moved to New York.

Erin Gray Parents

Erin is the daughter of Diane and Daniel Gray. When Gray was eight, her parents separated. Gray lived with her grandparents in Palm Springs for a few years. Eventually, she and her mother moved to Larkspur, California.Mo

Erin Gray Married

Erin has been in marriage twice. She was once married to Ken Schwartz but their marriage failed and they divorced in 1990 after being together for 22 years. She is currently married to Richard Hissong from 1991.

Erin Gray Daughter|Kids

She has a daughter by the name Samantha Gray Hissong who is 27 years old.

Erin Gray Career

Gray started her career in modeling. She entered her first contest and won a modeling assignment in St Louis when she was 14 years old. Commercials followed suit in Los Angeles. She also appeared on television in 1967 as a dancer in Malibu U. However, she decided to move to New York to further her modeling career. By 1975 Gray was one of the nation’s top TV models, earning $100,000 a year. Having developed an interest in acting, she auditioned for parts during her frequent trips to Los Angeles.

In 1978, she landed her first starring role, on the miniseries Evening in Byzantium. Following good notices, Gray was put on a seven-year contract at Universal Studios, which led directly to her taking the role of Colonel Wilma Deering in Buck Rogers in the 25th Century, at first for a theatrically released movie, then for a weekly TV series. Gray’s trim, shapely figure, augmented by a tight one-piece jumpsuit uniform, was popular with the show’s predominantly young male audience.

In response, Gray commented that she was aware of the sexiness of her uniform which was so tight that she had to be sewn into it. Her character was also high-profile within the show, being the female lead and second only to Gil Gerard in the starring role, thus representing one of the early examples of a strong female character in a science fiction setting. Because of this Gray was seen as an important role model for female viewers. She once told an interviewer:

Shortly after Buck Rogers, Gray appeared in the first season Magnum, P.I. the episode, J. Digger Doyle, in which she played security expert, Joy ‘Digger’ Doyle. The role was planned to become recurring, even possibly a spin-off series, but neither occurred, and it was the character’s only appearance in the series. In 1982, she played the role of Lilah in the summer movie Six Pack as a love interest opposite Kenny Rogers. Gray’s role as Kate Summers in the TV sitcom Silver Spoons lasted for several years in the 1980s. When that show ended, she took regular film and TV work; she appeared in an episode of Superboy and Murder, She Wrote. In 1993, she had a featured role in Jason Goes to Hell: The Final Friday, the ninth entry in the Friday the 13th series. In 2005, she appeared in the film, Siren.

In 2010, Gray and Gil Gerard returned to Buck Rogers by playing the characters’ parents in the pilot episode of the Buck Rogers web series. She has also worked in commercials, including a 2010 spot for Pup-Peroni dog treats. Gray is also a casting agent. Her agency, Heroes for Hire, specializes in booking sci-fi and fantasy stars for personal appearances, speaking engagements, and charity events. Gray also teaches T’ai chi.

In 1998, Gray wrote a book Act Right with Mara Purl which contains advice for novice television and movie actors. A revised edition was published in 2002. Gray starred in the 2011 film Dreams Awake. She also plays the role of Madeline Twain on the web series The Guild. Gray has also guest-starred in the 2014 webisode “Lolani” from the web series Star Trek Continues as Commodore Gray, an episode that also starred Lou Ferrigno. She reprised the role in the episode Embrace The Winds.

Erin Gray Net Worth

Gray is an American actress who has a net worth of $5 million. She has earned her wealth from her successful career in acting.

Erin Gray Height

Erin Gray height is 1.71 m tall.

Erin Gray Movies

Erin Gray Buck Rogers

As Colonel Wilma Deering on Buck Rogers in the 25th Century, Erin Gray was her era’s definitive TV space sweetheart. Gray combined her model’s looks with a charismatic presence — and Wilma’s take-charge manner to make her a reasonable substitute for Princess Leia as space-opera fans awaited another Star Wars film.

That’s not a comparison out of thin air, either — Buck Rogers and its competitor Battlestar Galactica was launched to cash in on the public’s hunger for Star Wars-like galactic drama, and the brunette Deering in her white jumpsuit, brandishing a big space blaster, wasn’t far off from Carrie Fisher in her white Leia robe doing the same.

Buck Rogers lasted two seasons, from 1979-81, while Battlestar Galactica lasted just one. They were arguably the same show, with a key difference any fan would point out: Buck Rogers had Erin Gray in spandex space garb, and Battlestar Galactica did not.