Career
Gray made her stage debut in 1950, and quickly became a known and acclaimed actress. However, after five years she left the world of the theater and devoted herself to cinema. The role she played most often in films was that of a seductive sex kitten.
Most famously, she played the titular "bad girl" in Totò, Peppino e la malafemmina, considered a classic of Italian comedy.
However, she also had a chance to demonstrate her dramatic talents in Michelangelo Antonioni"s Il grido, to great critical acclaim. In 1957, at the peak of her popularity, she also took part in The Nights of Cabiria by Federico Fellini.
Her career ended by choice soon thereafter. On February 15, 2011, Gray committed suicide by gunshot at her home in Torcegno.
She was 83 years old.
Some media, however, reported her age as 75, since she herself claimed to have been born in 1936.