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Linda Gray as Sue Ellen Ewing on “Dallas.”
The TV series Dallas is remembered for J.R. Ewing, the scheming, egotistical larger-than-life oil baron who made the weekly drama must-see TV (before that was even a thing). But J.R.’s machinations would not have been quite so despicable without the presence of Sue Ellen, the trophy wife played by Linda Gray. J.R.’s disinterest, infidelity and emotional abuse of Sue Ellen drove the character to drink heavily, and to have numerous affairs. Gray maintains Sue Ellen’s struggles made her one of the most interesting characters on TV in the 1980s, and has referred to her as “the original Desperate Housewife.”
