See "Buck Rogers" and "Silver Spies" Star Erin Gray now at 72
The actor and the old model also discovered another rewarding career behind the scenes.
Before traveling in space like Fierce Colonel, Wilma, Deergent in the 1979 television seriesBuck Rogers in the 25th century,Gray erin tapered in success inThe world of modeling. The Future Actor of Honolulu won his first competition at the age of 14 and was signed with a famous Nina Blanchard agency in Los Angeles at the age of 16. In the mid-1970s, she was one of the highest models working on television, winning more than $ 100,000 a year as Virginia Slim and L'Oréal face. Success as an actor soon followed. Throughout mostthe 80s, she became a familiar face on television, following her role as star onBuck Rogers With a five-year race like Kate Summers-Stratton on the popular sitcomSilver spoons. But his career did not end there. Keep reading to learn where Gray's career then brought him and how she turned his passion to connect to fans in a business on his part.
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She never ceased to act.
In the late 1970s, Gray was in high demand as a television model and decided that she wanted to act. She moved to Los Angeles and quickly started to book roles on the popular television series, includingMaudir andRockford files. In a few years, it landed the part of a nonsense officer in a Futurist Weekly Cinematographic-Science Fiction series,Buck Rogers in the 25th century.
When this show ended after two years, she took the very different character of Kate Summers-Stratton, the interest of love on the sitcomSilver spoons, a job she loved because the shooting of hours built around the school calendar of the young starRicky Schroeder-Gave it more time to spendwith his young son.
AfterSilver spoons Finished, gray went into television movies, appearing in eight films between 1987 and 1995 and in the invited roles on television series, includingSilk stackings,The murder she wrote,THE LAW,Jake and the Fatman, andEvening shadow. In the late 1990s, she had a five-episode race onBaywatch and appeared in several episodes of the soap operaPort Charles Port.
More recently, she acted in roles that pay tribute to her roots of Buck Rogers, appearing on the series of genresThundermans andMystery Science Theater 3000 and in the fan madeStar Trek continues Websseries. One of his most recent roles was in the Sci-Fi CW seriesPandora.
She also started working behind the scenes.
After divorcing his first husband, High School SweetheartKen SchwartzIn 1990, Gray found that she was bankrupt,she saidCloser weekly In 2019. In search of a way to maintain and subjected his family between temporary jobs, she started attending cartoon conventions, selling autographs and meeting fans. His experiences quickly led him to findHero for renting, a company that helps actors accounting for appearances by Comic Book and Fan Worldwide.AE0FCC31AE342FD3A1346EBB1F342FCB
"What I find is that the actors are great storytellers and these conventions allow them to share their knowledge and dreams and inspire people," said GrayCloser.
She knows domestic violence.
Experienced gray abuse During his marriage in Schwartz, who was a veteran fighting with a post-traumatic stress disorder, the claimed actorCable In 2012. After the end of their marriage, she found himself at Haven House, founded in the 60s as one of the first shelters for women escaping domestic violence.
His experience has led him to become a defender of life for the lives of survivors of domestic violence, and has since been a spokesman of Haven House.
"Part of my healing process consisted of sharing my story in the way I arrived where I am ... how it can happen to anyone," said GrayCable.
His children followed his traces.
Gray has two children. His son with Schwartz,Kevan Ray Schwartz, was born in 1976. In 1991, gray married cinematographRichard Hissong, who had been the director of photography onSilver spoons. Their daughterSamantha was born in 1991 and they are always together today.
Kevan works with actors like a talent bovor for the comic circuit, while Samantha had some of the short-term attempt of life 2010Buck Rogers as a web series.
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She always has a lot of love forSilver spoons,Buck Rogersand his fans.
Gray thinks about his time on his time onSilver spoons, andparticipated in a meeting with the rest of the distribution onTodayIn 2013. During the interview, Schroeder revealed his childhood crew.
Work on the show was "absolutely perfect," said gray on Today . "The best five years of my life. Loved them at first; loved them in the end. I can not say that too often."
Meanwhile, Buck Rogers Always has its fans at 40 and gray have not forgotten them either. It is still regular on the circuit of the Convention, making appearances in Dragon Con and the Convention of Cartoon and Lexington toy in 2021.
"I had no idea of the impact I had" Gray says Hollywood journalist In 2014. "Conventions [Sci-Fi] made me understand that I influenced a whole generation of men to appreciate strong women and to find them sexy and women to be officers of the police and military."
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