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name: "Vivean Gray"
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roles: ["Actor"]
born: "20 July 1924"
died: "29 July 2016"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "actor"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-17T20:12:05.119732+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
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# Vivean Gray

Actor. Born 20 July 1924 in Cleethorpes, Lincolnshire, England, UK. Died 29 July 2016.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 20 July 1924, Cleethorpes, Lincolnshire, England, UK
- **Died:** 29 July 2016
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4015651, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0337003/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/67829

## Streaming the US now

- **HBO Max:** [*Picnic at Hanging Rock*](https://film.one/film/picnic-at-hanging-rock.md) (88)

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## Biography

Vivean Gray (born Jean Vivra Gray) was an English actress. Born in Cleethorpes, Lincolnshire, on 20 July 1924, she moved to Australia in 1952 and appeared in guest roles in Crawford Productions dramas before gaining prominence in film and television.

She played Miss Greta McCraw in Peter Weir’s *Picnic at Hanging Rock* (1975) and Dr Whitburn in his *The Last Wave* (1977). On television she portrayed Ida Jessup in *The Sullivans* (1976–1983) for its entire run, winning two Logie Awards, Edna Pearson in *Prisoner* (1984), and Nell Mangel in *Neighbours* (1986–1988).

Gray retired from acting after *Neighbours* and returned to England, settling in Shoreham-by-Sea, West Sussex, where she died on 29 July 2016.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, theguardian.com, bbc.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Picnic at Hanging Rock* (1975), Fi1m 88, as Miss Greta McCraw — [page](https://film.one/film/picnic-at-hanging-rock.md)

## Also known for

- *The Last Wave* (1977), Dr. Whitburn

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