Spalding Gray
Acting
Born 1941-06-05
Died 2004-01-11
Providence, Rhode Island, USA
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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
Acting
53 credits
Saturday Night Live
The Nanny
Great Performances
Kate & Leopold
How High
The Killing Fields
The Paper
Alive from Off Center
Beaches
Twenty Bucks
Diabolique
Straight Talk
Bad Company
Glory Daze
Beyond Rangoon
Bliss
Stars & Bars
True Stories
King of the Hill
Coming Soon
Seven Minutes in Heaven
The Pickle
Clara's Heart
Love-In '72
The Image
Drunks
Almost You
Yesterday's Tomorrows
Swimming to Cambodia
Variety
Rumstick Road
Gray's Anatomy
Zelda
Heavy Petting
Julie Johnson
Our Town
And Everything Is Going Fine
Revolution #9
Laurie Anderson: The Collected Videos
Monster in a Box
Hard Choices
Confessions of a Sociopath
Spalding Gray: Terrors of Pleasure
Prisoner's Dilemma
Spalding Gray's Map of L.A.
Real Life
Sex and Death to the Age 14
Spalding Gray: A Life in Progress
What You Mean We?
A Personal History of the American Theater
Thirty Second Spots: TV Commercials for Artists (1982-83)
The Farmer's Daughters
Maraschino Cherry
Writing
8 credits
Alive from Off Center
Swimming to Cambodia
Gray's Anatomy
Monster in a Box
Spalding Gray: Terrors of Pleasure
Spalding Gray's Map of L.A.
Sex and Death to the Age 14
A Personal History of the American Theater
Other credits
5 credits
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