Spalding Gray
Acting
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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Spalding Gray, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
And Everything Is Going Fine
as Self (archive footage)
Age 68 (now 62)
Laurie Anderson: The Collected Videos
as The Talk Show Host
Age 50 (now 62)
Spalding Gray: Terrors of Pleasure
as Spalding Gray
Age 46 (now 62) Spalding Gray: Terrors of Pleasure
Writer
Age 46 (now 62)
A Personal History of the American Theater
Writer
Age 40 (now 62) A Personal History of the American Theater
as Himself
Age 40 (now 62)
Maraschino Cherry
as Penny's Client with Beard (uncredited)
Age 37 (now 62)
Thirty Second Spots: TV Commercials for Artists (1982-83)
as Spalding Gray
Saturday Night Live
as Narrator of 'Brides' (voice) (uncredited)
Age 34 (now 62)
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Spalding Grey
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