Spalding Rockwell Gray Bio/Wiki, Net Worth, Married 2018
Spalding Rockwell Gray (June 5, 1941 – January 11, 2004) was an American actor and writer. He is known for the autobiographical monologues that he wrote and performed for the theater in the 1980s and 1990s.Theater critics John Willis and Ben Hodges described his monologue work as "trenchant, personal narratives delivered on sparse, unadorned sets with a dry, WASP, quiet mania". Gray achieved celebrity status for his monologue Swimming to Cambodia, which was adapted into a film in 1987 by filmmaker Jonathan Demme. Other one-man shows by Gray that were captured on film include Monster in a Box, directed by Nick Broomfield, and Gray's Anatomy, directed by Steven Soderbergh.Gray died in New York City, New York, of an apparent suicide in 2004. Steven Soderbergh made a 2010 documentary film about Gray's life entitled And Everything Is Going Fine.
Guggenheim Fellowship for Creative Arts, US & Canada, Obie Award for Special Citations
Nominations
Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Solo Performance, Independent Spirit Award for Best Male Lead, Independent Spirit Award for Best Screenplay
Movies
Swimming to Cambodia, The Killing Fields, Gray's Anatomy, Monster in a Box, Beaches, Kate & Leopold, True Stories, Spalding Gray: Terrors of Pleasure, Beyond Rangoon, King of the Hill, Diabolique, The Paper, Clara's Heart, How High, Drunks, Twenty Bucks, Straight Talk, Bad Company, Stars and Bars, B...
Star Sign
Gemini
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Trademark
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New England accent
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[on Roland Joffé] He has the demeanour of Christ, the eyes of Rasputin and the body of Zorro.
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Fact
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Reported missing after after disappearing from his Manhattan home. [January 2004]
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After being reported missing on January 10th, the police pulled his body from the East River at 3 p.m. Sunday, March 07, 2004. The body was found off the Greenpoint section of Brooklyn, near Kent Avenue. [March 2004]
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(November 1999 - January 2000) New monologue at Lincoln Center, "Morning, Noon and Night"
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Biography in "The Scribner Encyclopedia of American Lives," Volume 7, 2003-2005, pages 215-218. Farmington Hills, MI: Thomson Gale, 2007.
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Biography/bibliography in "Contemporary Authors," New Revision Series, vol. 138, pages 184-190. Farmington Hills, MI: Thomson Gale, 2005.
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His depression worsened when his family moved from the house he loved in Sag Harbor to one he hated in New Haven.
His mother committed suicide in 1967; Gray sometimes referred in his monologues to a desire to do the same.
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Suffered severe injuries in a 2001 automobile accident in Ireland. At the time of his disappearance in January 2004, it was reported that Gray had been working on a new monologue based upon his experience and recovery after the accident. According to some published reports, Gray suffered from depression which intensified after the accident.
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Was reported missing on Sunday, January 10, 2004. His body was found in the East River (New York City) on March 7, 2004.
All of Spalding Gray's monologues were initially performed in The Performing Garage in Soho in New York City and/or Lincoln Center in New York City before being set to film.
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Best known for his monologue films Swimming to Cambodia (1987), Monster in a Box (1992), and Gray's Anatomy (1996), in which the sole action in the film is Gray sitting at a microphone telling his stories.
$1 Million
