Person biography:
Deborah Gray is a former Australian high fashion model and actress who is now best known as an internationally best-selling author and jazz singer. At 15, she was working as a junior secretary in the Prime Minister's office in Canberra when she was talent-scouted by a model agent. She was soon offered a modeling contract by Vivien's Management and after winning the Teen Model of the Year competition, she left Canberra for Sydney.
Deborah quickly became one of Australia's top young models, appearing in major fashion shows and on leading magazine covers. She also starred in numerous TV commercials until the age of 19, when she branched out into acting and burst onto TV screens with her legendary role on the hit television soap opera "Number 96" as the comedic sex symbol role of 'Miss Hemingway'.
Deborah continued her acting career as a popular TV and film actress, playing a continuing dramatic role in soap opera "The Young Doctors", acting in a guest role in the police drama series "Bellamy", and co-hosting an Australian Candid Camera-style television series titled "Catch Us If You Can". She also started an all-girl cabaret act named Deborah Gray and the Flames, and went on to appear on the cover of Australian Playboy Magazine and was showcased in its best-selling actor profile and pictorial.
Gray co-wrote and sang the title song from the 1981 feature film "Pacific Banana", and other musical forays at the time were the song "Mellow Loving", a top ten dance hit, "Love Song of O", and the European top 40 "No Time to Lose".
By 1986, Gray, tired of the 'ex-symbol' actress tag and alarmed at the local film industry's growing penchant for violent films, left acting altogether to pursue writing and music full-time.
She moved to New York in 1986 to study jazz vocalization and songwriting, living there for 8 years, performing in many of the known cabaret and jazz clubs, and recording her first all-original jazz CD featuring the world-renowned jazz trumpeter Roy Hargrove.
Today, Gray is based in Australia, continuing her jazz performing and recording, and is an internationally best-selling author, songwriter, and producer.
