Stacey Gregg
Stacey Gregg (born 7 April 1946) is a British actress and the daughter of Hubert Gregg and Zoe Gail. She is also credited as Stacey Maxwell and Stacey Jefferson. She played Sandy in the original London stage production of Grease opposite Richard Gere and the character Lynn Baxter in Crossroads. She voiced the characters Vixen and Adder in the acclaimed TV series The Animals of Farthing Wood. She was also the voice of Rosa in the Japanese cartoon Makyu Senjo (1998) and provided voices for the Moomin TV series.
Gregg was born in Montagu Square, London, the daughter of the composer Hubert Gregg and the singer Zoe Gail. Her parents divorced when she was a baby and was brought up by a nanny. She spent most of her early life in the US, being schooled in New York and Boston. Following school, she moved to Las Vegas to be with her mother and stepfather[1]
In 1951, Gregg's mother married the American vaudeville performer Bert Bernard[2] (né Herbert James Maxwell). She took her stepfather's name and was credited as Stacey Maxwell in a number of US prime-time TV shows including The Virginian (playing "a mentally retarded child"),[1] Ironside[1] and The Monkees.[3]
Having returned to the UK, Gregg played the principal girl, Princess Balroubadour in Aladdin at the London Palladium which opened 22 December 1970.[4]
In 1971 she played the character Daffy (Daffodil Primrose O'Kelly) in the ITV comedy series Tottering Towers.[5]
In 1973 Gregg played the role of Sandy in the first British stage production of the musical Grease at the Coventry Theatre,[6] continuing in the role when it moved to the New London Theatre in the West End.[7]
In the 1970s she played the character Lynn Baxter in Crossroads.[8]
She wrote the theme music for the television series Marked Personal.[8]
Her second husband was the Canadian author Charles Dennis.[9]
She appeared in an episode of Celebrity Squares.[9]
References
[edit]- ^ a b c "FREEDOM FIGHTER STACEY CALLS FOR ACTION FROM BRITISH GIRLS". TV Times. Vol. 65, no. 45. 4 November 1971. pp. 8--9.
- ^ "ZOE GAIL IS MARRIED". Evening Standard. 17 March 1951. p. 5 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ "Stacey Gregg". TVGuide.com. Retrieved 4 July 2025.
- ^ "FOLLOWING MOTHER'S footsteps into pantomime...". Evening Standard. 7 September 1970. p. 8 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ "Tottering Towers". Look-In. No. 44. 6 November 1971. pp. 3–5.
- ^ "The odyssey of a rock age girl". Sunday Mercury. 3 June 1973. p. 15 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ "Rocking the clock back to the fifties". Evening Standard. 27 June 1973. p. 27 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ a b "'I had a grudge against showbiz for breaking up my home' says Stacey". Leicester Chronicle. 30 December 1977. p. 2. Retrieved 3 July 2025 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ a b "LOVE FLOP FOR STACEY". The Sunday People. 30 April 1978. p. 19 – via Newspapers.com.
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External links
[edit]- Stacey Gregg at IMDb
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