Age: 76
female
The very beautiful and talented model, actress, and author Erin Gray (born January 7, 1950) was one of the first models to successfully crossover into television. She is best known as "Kate Summers" on the highly watched TV show "Silver Spoons" (1982), and "Colonel Wilma Deering" on the TV show "Buck Rogers in the 25th Century" (1979). Many women admired her commanding role as Col Deering, while many men admired her beautiful looks and sexy figure. Erin Gray was born on January 7, 1950 in Honolulu. Gray moved with her family from Hawaii to California when she was eight years old and graduated from Pacific Palisades High School. She was fifteen when a chance meeting with Nina Blanchard, head of one of Hollywood's top model agencies, convinced her what she wanted to do in life. Moving to New York, she became one of the town's most sought-after models, in elite company with Farrah Fawcett, Veronica Hamel and Susan Blakely. TV viewers encountered her commercials for Breck, Max Factor, Clairol, Camay Soap and RC Cola, and a classic spot--for English Leather cologne--in which she provocatively declared, "My men wear English Leather--or they wear nothing at all!" Between modeling assignments, she studied acting with well-known coach Warren Robertson and, when movie-TV offers came in, she was ready. Universal was impressed by her performances on such series as "Police Story" (1973) and "Gibbsville" (1976) and signed her to a seven-year contract. Under that pact, the studio co-starred her as a tough-minded newspaper reporter in Irwin Shaw's Evening in Byzantium (1978) (TV). Her performance scored with both critics and audiences, and led directly to the role in "Buck Rogers in the 25th Century" (1979). As a result, she has become a regular commuter between Hollywood and New York, the hub of the magazine and fashion world.
Born on the mining world of Kappa II-Lambda, young Samus Aran is orphaned when her parents and friends are killed by raiding Space Pirates led by Ridley in an attack that destroys the planet. Found and rescued by the bird-like race called the Chozo, Samus is infused with Chozo DNA to give her resistance to foreign environments. After having been drummed out of the Galactic Federation's academy due to disagreements with sadistic Commander Adam Malkovich, Samus takes a job as a freelance bounty hunter. When it seems as though she is done with the Federation, she is called to investigate the transport of Metroid creatures to Planet Zebes. Because of her superior skills and strong sense of justice, Samus chooses to take the Federation's offer and discover what would the Space Pirates want with the potentially dangerous Metroids. There she finds that Mother Brain, Ridley and one of their allies Kraid are leading the Space Pirates in taking Metroids to replicate and use as biological weapons against those that oppose their dominion over their part of the galaxy. Facing a final confrontation with the creature that murdered her parents and childhood friends, Samus works her way through the eight caverns of Zebes to the Space Pirate base with her Power Suit and Morph Ball to save their Universe.
