Reatha Grey(1949-2024)
- Actress
- Casting Department
- Producer
Reatha Grey, one of the hip, sexy, ready-to-party-senior pranksters
starring on the NBC hit series
Betty White's Off Their Rockers (2012),
was born in Los Angeles, California. Her father was a dentist and her
mother worked as a social worker and elementary school teacher. Grey
enjoyed a comfortable middle-class childhood, graduating from Los
Angeles High School. She went on to graduate from Los Angeles City
College, majoring in Theater Arts.
After touring East Asia with the USO in 1974, Grey began her professional show business career, appearing in television series and movies such as Vivre à trois (1976), Hôpital central (1963) and Poudre d'ange (1981). She also starred in the black exploitation cult classic Welcome Home Brother Charles (1975). Dozens of roles on television, screen and stage later, Grey owned and operated the Grey Images Extra Casting Company for almost a decade in the 1980s, supplying background talent for television and films including _Baby Boom (1988)_ (v)and _The Fabulous Baker Boys (1992)_.
Grey retired from performing in 1991 and went on to serve as a chaplain at the Los Angeles Mission for eight years. She has also traveled as a missionary to Nicaragua, Kenya, Uganda, Ghana and the Bahamas.
Returning to acting in 2007, Grey can be seen starring in Walk by Faith: After the HoneyMoon (2010), available on DVD, the television pilot "My Life in Punchlines" and co-starring on the cable series The Protector (2011) and The Newsroom (2012). She has also been spotted doing stand-up at comedy clubs around Los Angeles.
After touring East Asia with the USO in 1974, Grey began her professional show business career, appearing in television series and movies such as Vivre à trois (1976), Hôpital central (1963) and Poudre d'ange (1981). She also starred in the black exploitation cult classic Welcome Home Brother Charles (1975). Dozens of roles on television, screen and stage later, Grey owned and operated the Grey Images Extra Casting Company for almost a decade in the 1980s, supplying background talent for television and films including _Baby Boom (1988)_ (v)and _The Fabulous Baker Boys (1992)_.
Grey retired from performing in 1991 and went on to serve as a chaplain at the Los Angeles Mission for eight years. She has also traveled as a missionary to Nicaragua, Kenya, Uganda, Ghana and the Bahamas.
Returning to acting in 2007, Grey can be seen starring in Walk by Faith: After the HoneyMoon (2010), available on DVD, the television pilot "My Life in Punchlines" and co-starring on the cable series The Protector (2011) and The Newsroom (2012). She has also been spotted doing stand-up at comedy clubs around Los Angeles.
