‘Dallas’ star Linda Gray turns to helping others after being shook to her ‘core’ decades after hit show's end

"Dallas" prima Linda Gray stepped retired past week to thief raise costs to conflict cancer, a origin that has go adjacent to her heart.

Gray serves arsenic a co-chair, on pinch Alan Stewart, for nan Farrah Fawcett Foundation, which held its 3rd yearly Farrah Fawcett Foundation Tex-Mex Fiesta successful Dallas. 

The 84-year-old first became progressive successful nan statement aft winning their Angel Award astatine nan first Tex-Mex Fiesta successful 2022, not agelong aft she mislaid her son, Jeff, to leukemia successful 2020.

Linda Gray attended nan Farrah Fawcett Foundation Tex-Mex Fiesta connected Oct. 24, 2024, successful Dallas. (Rick Kern/Getty Images for Farrah Fawcett Foundation)

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"A ceremony of my boy Jeff’s life. He was nan kindest, funniest, sweetest quality being..... he brought nan world specified emotion and was loved by everyone! May his travel beryllium a magical one," she wrote successful nan caption for a bid of photos shared connected Instagram successful November 2020.

In a 2nd post, adjacent to Thanksgiving, she shared a photograph of her hugging Jeff arsenic he prepared to carve a turkey.

"I person truthful overmuch to beryllium thankful for. Being Jeff’s Mother was an honor. I person specified saccharine memories of cooking pinch him. He ever carved nan Turkey and made his typical cranberry sauce," she wrote.

Jeff was 1 of 2 children Gray shared pinch ex-husband Ed Thrasher. They besides person a daughter, Kehly Sloane, an character who appeared connected "Dallas" playing Gray’s secretary.

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Speaking astatine this year’s Tex-Mex Fiesta, Gray recalled nan nonaccomplishment of her boy "just shook maine to my core," adding, "This illness has sewage to beryllium stopped," per Culture Map Dallas.

Gray and Fawcett had been agelong clip friends until nan "Charlie’s Angels" prima died successful 2009 from anal cancer.

Gray mislaid her boy to leukemia successful 2020 and later became progressive successful nan Farrah Fawcett Foundation, accepting their Angel Award astatine nan 2022 Tex-Mex Fiesta. (Rick Kern/Getty Images for Farrah Fawcett Foundation)

When nan arena kicked disconnected successful 2022, Stewart said holding it successful Texas would "have meant truthful overmuch to her," per the Dallas Morning News.

Though calved successful Santa Monica, California, Gray became synonymous pinch Texas acknowledgment to her domiciled connected "Dallas."

Alana Stewart and Gray served arsenic co-chairs this twelvemonth for nan Farrah Fawcett Foundation Tex-Mex Fiesta fundraiser. (Rick Kern/Getty Images for Farrah Fawcett Foundation)

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She starred arsenic Sue Ellen Ewing, nan long-suffering woman of lipid businessman J.R. Ewing, played by Larry Hagman.

Gray earned an Emmy information arsenic good arsenic 2 Golden Globe nominations for her activity connected nan show, which ran from 1978 to 1991. She reprised her domiciled successful respective TV movie spin-offs of nan bid passim nan '90s and nan revival, which ran from 2012 to 2014, erstwhile Hagman died.

Gray, acold right, is shown pinch "Dallas" formed members, from left, Steve Kanaly, Patrick Duffy, Victoria Principal, Barbara Bel Geddes, Jim Davis, Larry Hagman, and Charlene Tilton. (CBS Photo Archive/Getty Images)

"I deliberation that ‘Dallas’ was for illustration daytime soaps that were very popular, and ‘Dallas’ came into play, and it was gigantic, and it filled that aforesaid request that group emotion to person a recurring story, suspense and thing to look guardant to," Gray told People magazine successful 2023.

"Because nan show ran for truthful galore years, nan assemblage sewage to cognize nan characters truthful genuinely, and they really cared for [them], and nan characters each went done truthful much," she continued. "And I deliberation nan fans really loved to subordinate to nan stories that were bigger than life. I deliberation that they were decidedly bigger than life truthful they could unrecorded vicariously done those characters. ‘Dallas’ was truthful influential."

Gray recalled that "Dallas" was "so influential." (Maureen Donaldson/Getty Images)

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After "Dallas," Gray continued moving connected tv connected bid for illustration "90210" and later joining nan long-running British soap opera "Hollyoaks" from 2016 to 2017.

She besides showcased her activity connected stage, notably successful a West End accumulation of "The Graduate," which proved to beryllium a full-circle infinitesimal for nan actress, who revealed successful 2013 that it is really her limb connected nan celebrated poster for nan 1967 movie, not nan film’s prima Anne Bancroft.

Gray revealed that her limb is nan 1 featured connected nan poster for "The Graduate," not nan film's star, Anne Bancroft. (Getty Images)

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In 2023, she joined forces pinch immoderate chap '80s TV icons for illustration Loni Anderson and Morgan Fairchild for nan Lifetime movie "Ladies of nan 80s: A Divas Christmas," pursuing 5 fictionalized actresses who starred successful a fictional 1980s soap opera who reunite for their last drama-filled Christmas special

"The world was a different spot then, and I deliberation that’s absorbing to look back. We worked a batch during nan ‘80s, and I deliberation it was truthful overmuch nosy for maine to look backmost and go, ‘Wow, look astatine nan world, look astatine nan power that was different backmost then.' We were very affirmative backmost then. Everything conscionable seemed yummier," Gray told Fox News Digital astatine nan time.

She added that hanging retired pinch her co-stars, Anderson, Fairchild, Donna Mills and Nicolette Sheridan, was a "perfect" experience.

"You benignant of hoped it would each blend, everybody would get along. And we did," she said. "And we kept talking and interrupting and reminiscing and hugging. And past we had this magical director, well, woman, and she conscionable benignant of fell correct into nan remainder of us. She was 1 of america and truthful everything flowed together. And that's what was beautiful astir it for maine was it was seamless. There was thing that felt retired of whack successful any, immoderate arena. It was perfect."

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Gray is besides looking to reunite pinch her "Dallas" co-star Patrick Duffy for a TV movie that would play astir pinch nan show’s original location for Christmas, per Variety.

Per nan outlet, Gray and executive shaper Larry Thompson, who besides worked pinch her connected "Ladies of nan 80s," are pitching an thought that would characteristic Gray and Duffy arsenic poltergeists haunting Southfork Ranch, wherever "Dallas" was filmed, and which is still operating arsenic a filming and tourer location to this day.

The duo would beryllium playing each caller characters, unrelated to nan original series, who haunt nan location and go irritated by a popular prima utilizing nan property to movie a Christmas euphony video. In keeping pinch it being a vacation rom-com, they’d besides conspire to extremity her from falling successful emotion pinch nan handsome caretaker.

Gray is producing a movie pinch "Dallas" co-star Patrick Duffy that would return spot wherever nan show was filmed. (Alberto E. Rodriguez/Getty Images)

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"I consciousness very blessed," Gray told Woman’s World past year. "I for illustration to do a 45-minute gratitude walk. ... I recognize I person to beryllium grateful for each assemblage part, each character I see, nan sky, nan clouds. … I cognize it sounds lightweight, but I don’t care."