| Full Name | Spalding Gray |
| Net Worth | $8 Million |
| Date Of Birth | June 5, 1941 |
| Died | January 11, 2004, East River, New York City, New York, United States |
| Place Of Birth | Providence, Rhode Island, USA |
| Occupation | Actor and writer |
| Profession | Actor, Playwright, Screenwriter, Performer |
| Education | Emerson College |
| Nationality | American |
| Spouse | Kathleen Russo, Renee Shafransky |
| Children | Forrest Dylan Gray, Theo Spalding Gray |
| Parents | Rockwell Gray, Sr., Margaret Elizabeth Horton |
| Siblings | Channing Gray, Rockwell Gray, Jr. |
| Nicknames | Spalding Gray, Gray, Spalding |
| IMDB | http://imdb.com/name/nm0336960 |
| Awards | 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 |
| # | Fact |
|---|
| 1 | Reported missing after after disappearing from his Manhattan home. [January 2004] |
| 2 | 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] |
| 3 | (November 1999 - January 2000) New monologue at Lincoln Center, "Morning, Noon and Night" |
| 4 | Biography in "The Scribner Encyclopedia of American Lives," Volume 7, 2003-2005, pages 215-218. Farmington Hills, MI: Thomson Gale, 2007. |
| 5 | Biography/bibliography in "Contemporary Authors," New Revision Series, vol. 138, pages 184-190. Farmington Hills, MI: Thomson Gale, 2005. |
| 6 | His depression worsened when his family moved from the house he loved in Sag Harbor to one he hated in New Haven. |
| 7 | Had two sons with Kathleen Russo: Forrest and Theo. |
| 8 | Said that only his children could make him laugh |
| 9 | Was claustrophobic. |
| 10 | His mother committed suicide in 1967; Gray sometimes referred in his monologues to a desire to do the same. |
| 11 | 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. |
| 12 | Was reported missing on Sunday, January 10, 2004. His body was found in the East River (New York City) on March 7, 2004. |
| 13 | The directors of the filmed versions of Gray's monologues Swimming to Cambodia (1987), Spalding Gray: Terrors of Pleasure (1988), Monster in a Box (1992) and Gray's Anatomy (1996) , are all considered to be of the first rank: respectively Jonathan Demme, Thomas Schlamme (multi Emmy-winning producer and director of The West Wing (1999)), Nick Broomfield (renowned British documentary maker) and Steven Soderbergh. |
| 14 | Graduated from Emerson College. |
| 15 | 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. |
| 16 | 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. |
| Title | Year | Status | Character |
|---|
| And Everything Is Going Fine | 2010 | Documentary | Himself |
| Gray Memorial | 2005 | Documentary short | |
| New York: A Documentary Film | 1999-2001 | TV Series documentary | Himself - Comentator |
| The 20th Century: Yesterday's Tomorrows | 1999 | TV Movie documentary | Himself |
| American Experience | 1997-1999 | TV Series documentary | Himself |
| The Daily Show | 1997 | TV Series | Himself - Guest |
| Gray's Anatomy | 1996 | | Himself |
| Late Night with Conan O'Brien | 1993-1995 | TV Series | Himself - Guest |
| The Tonight Show with Jay Leno | 1992-1993 | TV Series | Himself - Guest |
| Monster in a Box | 1992 | | Himself |
| Caffe Lena | 1990 | Documentary | |
| Late Night with David Letterman | 1986-1990 | TV Series | Himself / Himself - Guest |
| Heavy Petting | 1989 | Documentary | Himself |
| Spalding Gray: Terrors of Pleasure | 1988 | | Himself |
| Spalding Gray: A Life in Progress | 1988 | TV Short | Himself |
| Swimming to Cambodia | 1987 | | Himself |
| The Communists Are Comfortable | 1985 | Documentary | |
| Alive from Off Center | 1985 | TV Series | Himself |
| Spalding Gray's Map of L.A. | 1984 | Short | Himself |
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$8 Million
