“Dallas” star Linda Grey stepped out final week to assist elevate funds to struggle most cancers, a trigger that has grow to be near her coronary heart.
Grey serves as a co-chair, together with Alan Stewart, for the Farrah Fawcett Basis, which held its third annual Farrah Fawcett Basis Tex-Mex Fiesta in Dallas.
The 84-year-old first turned concerned within the group after profitable their Angel Award on the first Tex-Mex Fiesta in 2022, not lengthy after she misplaced her son, Jeff, to leukemia in 2020.
Linda Grey attended the Farrah Fawcett Basis Tex-Mex Fiesta on Oct. 24, 2024, in Dallas. (Rick Kern/Getty Pictures for Farrah Fawcett Basis)
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“A celebration of my son Jeff’s life. He was the kindest, funniest, sweetest human being….. he brought the world such love and was loved by everyone! May his journey be a magical one,” she wrote within the caption for a collection of pictures shared on Instagram in November 2020.
In a second submit, near Thanksgiving, she shared a photograph of her hugging Jeff as he ready to carve a turkey.
“I have so much to be thankful for. Being Jeff’s Mother was an honor. I have such sweet memories of cooking with him. He always carved the Turkey and made his special cranberry sauce,” she wrote.
Jeff was considered one of two kids Grey shared with ex-husband Ed Thrasher. In addition they have a daughter, Kehly Sloane, an actress who appeared on “Dallas” taking part in Grey’s secretary.
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Talking at this 12 months’s Tex-Mex Fiesta, Grey recalled the lack of her son “just shook me to my core,” including, “This disease has got to be stopped,” per Tradition Map Dallas.
Grey and Fawcett had been very long time associates till the “Charlie’s Angels” star died in 2009 from anal most cancers.
Grey misplaced her son to leukemia in 2020 and later turned concerned within the Farrah Fawcett Basis, accepting their Angel Award on the 2022 Tex-Mex Fiesta. (Rick Kern/Getty Pictures for Farrah Fawcett Basis)
When the occasion kicked off in 2022, Stewart mentioned holding it in Texas would “have meant so much to her,” per the Dallas Morning Information.
Although born in Santa Monica, California, Grey turned synonymous with Texas because of her function on “Dallas.”
Alana Stewart and Grey served as co-chairs this 12 months for the Farrah Fawcett Basis Tex-Mex Fiesta fundraiser. (Rick Kern/Getty Pictures for Farrah Fawcett Basis)
She starred as Sue Ellen Ewing, the long-suffering spouse of oil businessman J.R. Ewing, performed by Larry Hagman.
Grey earned an Emmy nomination in addition to two Golden Globe nominations for her work on the present, which ran from 1978 to 1991. She reprised her function in a number of TV film spin-offs of the collection all through the ’90s and the revival, which ran from 2012 to 2014, when Hagman died.
Grey, far proper, is proven with “Dallas” solid members, from left, Steve Kanaly, Patrick Duffy, Victoria Principal, Barbara Bel Geddes, Jim Davis, Larry Hagman, and Charlene Tilton. (CBS Photograph Archive/Getty Pictures)
“I think that ‘Dallas’ was like daytime soaps that were very popular, and ‘Dallas’ came into play, and it was gigantic, and it filled that same need that people love to have a recurring story, suspense and something to look forward to,” Grey informed Folks journal in 2023.
“Because the show ran for so many years, the audience got to know the characters so genuinely, and they really cared for [them], and the characters all went through so much,” she continued. “And I think the fans really loved to relate to the stories that were bigger than life. I think that they were definitely bigger than life so they could live vicariously through those characters. ‘Dallas’ was so influential.”
Grey recalled that “Dallas” was “so influential.” (Maureen Donaldson/Getty Pictures)
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After “Dallas,” Grey continued engaged on tv on collection like “90210” and later becoming a member of the long-running British cleaning soap opera “Hollyoaks” from 2016 to 2017.
She additionally showcased her work on stage, notably in a West Finish manufacturing of “The Graduate,” which proved to be a full-circle second for the actress, who revealed in 2013 that it’s really her leg on the well-known poster for the 1967 film, not the movie’s star Anne Bancroft.
Grey revealed that her leg is the one featured on the poster for “The Graduate,” not the movie’s star, Anne Bancroft. (Getty Pictures)
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In 2023, she joined forces with some fellow ’80s TV icons like Loni Anderson and Morgan Fairchild for the Lifetime film “Ladies of the 80s: A Divas Christmas,” following 5 fictionalized actresses who starred in a fictional Eighties cleaning soap opera who reunite for his or her last drama-filled Christmas particular
“The world was a special place then, and I believe that’s attention-grabbing to look again. We labored lots throughout the ‘80s, and I think it was so much fun for me to look back and go, ‘Wow, look at the world, look at the energy that was different back then.’ We were very positive back then. Everything just seemed yummier,” Gray told Fox News Digital at the time.
She added that hanging out with her co-stars, Anderson, Fairchild, Donna Mills and Nicolette Sheridan, was a “perfect” experience.
“You kind of hoped it would all blend, everybody would get along. And we did,” she said. “And we kept talking and interrupting and reminiscing and hugging. And then we had this magical director, well, woman, and she just kind of fell right into the rest of us. She was one of us and so everything flowed together. And that’s what was lovely about it for me was it was seamless. There was nothing that felt out of whack in any, any arena. It was perfect.”
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Gray is also looking to reunite with her “Dallas” co-star Patrick Duffy for a TV movie that would play around with the show’s unique location for Christmas, per Selection.
Per the outlet, Grey and government producer Larry Thompson, who additionally labored together with her on “Ladies of the 80s,” are pitching an thought that will characteristic Grey and Duffy as poltergeists haunting Southfork Ranch, the place “Dallas” was filmed, and which continues to be working as a filming and vacationer location to today.
The duo can be taking part in all new characters, unrelated to the unique collection, who hang-out the placement and grow to be aggravated by a pop star utilizing the property to movie a Christmas music video. In step with it being a vacation rom-com, they’d additionally conspire to cease her from falling in love with the good-looking caretaker.
Grey is producing a movie with “Dallas” co-star Patrick Duffy that will happen the place the present was filmed. (Alberto E. Rodriguez/Getty Pictures)
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“I feel very blessed,” Grey informed Girl’s World final 12 months. “I like to do a 45-minute gratitude walk. … I realize I have to be grateful for every body part, every tree I see, the sky, the clouds. … I know it sounds lightweight, but I don’t care.”
