Vivean Gray
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| Born |
Jean Vivra Gray 20 July 1924 Cleethorpes, Lincolnshire, England, UK |
| Died | 29 July 2016 (aged 92) |
| Nationality | English Australian |
| Occupation | Actress |
| Years active | 1952-1988 |
| Parent(s) | Allan & Doris Gray |
Jean Vivra Gray (20 July 1924 – 29 July 2016), known professionally as Vivean Gray, was an Australian television and film actress. Her best-known roles were in soap operas: Ida Jessup in The Sullivans, and Nell Mangel in Neighbours. She retired in 1988, moving to Shoreham-by-Sea, West Sussex, England where she lived a quiet and private life.
Gray was born in Cleethorpes, Lincolnshire, on 20 July 1924. Gray was the daughter of Allan Gray and Doris Gray, who had been married the previous year in the district of Simpson. She was the oldest of four children. The family later moved to Surrey where her father became a fish merchant at the Grimsby Docks.
She initially worked as a local reporter, photographer's assistant and as a sales assistant in a department store, Later becoming a nurse and working with the Women's Land Army., before emigrating to Australia around 1952 to pursue a career as an actress.
In the 1970s, Gray appeared in a number of television dramas produced by Crawford Productions including Solo One, Bluey, Homicide, Division 4, Matlock Police, and Carson's Law. She also appeared in film portraying mathematics teacher Miss McGraw in Peter Weir's adaptation of Picnic at Hanging Rock (1975) and in the television mini-series Anzacs and All the Rivers Run.
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