Constance Ray (born July 10, 1956) is an American actress and playwright. Among her highest-profile appearances are '' Thank You for Smoking'' (2006) and ''

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'' (1999), and the television drama '' ER'' (1997). She also appeared in '' Ice Princess'' (2005) and on ''

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'' (2002).

Biography

Constance Ray was one of three children born to Betty Jean (Edmonds) and Shelton Ray and raised on the family's dairy farm in

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. At the age of ten, Ray wrote a play with her brother Lester for a

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club talent show that went on to win at county and district competitions. She went on to study dance at

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and earned a Master of Fine Arts at Ohio University. Ray wrote the

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musicals '' Smoke On The Mountain'', which opened off-Broadway in 1990, ''Sanders Family Christmas'' (1999), and ''Smoke on the Mountain Homecoming'' (2006), three of the most produced musicals in the United States for the last 20 years.Smoke on the Mountain
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Filmography

Film

Television

Theater

References

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* 1956 births Actresses from North Carolina American film actresses American television actresses East Carolina University alumni People from Hillsborough, North Carolina Living people 21st-century American women {{US-screen-actor-1950s-stub