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Deborah Gray (born 1958 in Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia) is an Australian former high fashion model and actress who is now an international non-fiction author and singer/songwriter. When she was just a teen, the Down Under doll was working in her country’s House of Parliament. The Prime Minister chose her for his private staff.As a teenager while still at school, she was scouted by a leading Sydney agent for a modelling contract and after moving to Sydney, she became a successful model for fashion magazines including covers for Cleo and Dolly magazine and starred in national TV commercials including National Quintrix, Sunwhite Rice, Holden and Coca Cola. By the time she was nineteen, the Perfect 10 was cast on Number 96 (1977). The Australian soap had Ms. Gray playing a lady with a psychological aversion to wearing clothes. She continued her acting career as a popular television and film actress. She played a guest role in soap opera The Young Doctors, acted in the police drama series Bellamy (1981), and was a regular co-host in an Australian Candid Camera style television series titled Catch Us If You Can. She acted in two 1981 feature films, the SAFC funded comedy Pacific Banana, and The Best of Friends. Gray co-wrote and sang the title song from Pacific Banana with fellow co-star Luan Peters.Gray's first record deal was with Laser Records, an Australian label. "Love Song of O" peaked at number 89 in Australia in January 1978. In 1982, Gray left Australia to pursue music full time after being offered a record deal and a European tour in the pop duo “Trouble” with Coconut Records, a label of German record company Hansa. She had a European top 40 hit “No Time to Lose”, released the same year. Trouble’s next singles were “Ich Bin Trouble” and “Cosmetic”. In 1983 Gray formed a musical partnership with fellow musician/producer Roy Nicolson who had returned from producing and writing in the UK. Gray composed and co-produced an albums’ worth of demos with Nicolson. She was signed along with Roy Nicolson by CBS Records Australia. They named their musical partnership ARVO. Their first pop album was entitled “Luna” and was produced at Paradise Studios Sydney and released in Australia 1984. She moved to New York in 1986 to study jazz vocalization and songwriting. She lived there for 9 years, performing in many of the known cabaret and jazz clubs (Maxims, Blue Note, Bradleys, The Supper Club, Tatou) and recording her first all original jazz CD featuring trumpeter Roy Hargrove. Gray is an author with books published in Australia and overseas. Her first book was with Athena Starwoman and published in September 1996 titled “How to Turn Your Ex-Boyfriend into a Toad: And Other Spells for Love, Wealth, Beauty, and Revenge”.
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