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Vina Fay Wray (September 15, 1907 – August 8, 2004) was a Canadian-American actress best known for starring as Ann Darrow in the 1933 film King Kong. Through an acting career that spanned nearly six decades, Wray attained international recognition as an actress in horror films.
Fay Wray was a Canadian-born actress who starred in silent and sound films, including the classic King Kong (1933). She also appeared in TV shows, plays and wrote a play based on her husband's stories.
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Fay Wray was a Canadian-born actress who starred in silent and sound films, including the classic King Kong (1933). She was known as the Queen of Scream and the beauty who killed the beast in the iconic movie.
- September 15, 1907
- August 8, 2004
May 10, 2024 · Fay Wray was a Canadian-born actor who appeared in more than 90 motion pictures, including a number of silent films, and acted opposite some of Hollywood’s most notable male stars. She was best remembered for her performance as the love object of a giant gorilla in King Kong (1933).
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Aug 10, 2004 · Aug. 10, 2004. Fay Wray, an actress who appeared in about 100 movies but whose fame is inextricably linked with the hours she spent struggling, helplessly screaming, in the eight-foot hand of...
Aug 9, 2004 · Fay Wray, who won everlasting fame as the damsel held atop the Empire State Building by the giant ape in the 1933 film classic "King Kong," has died, a close friend said Monday. She was 96....