GRY BAY
THOUSANDS OF BUTTERFLIES
Gry Bay got her breakthrough playing one of the leads in “Dr. Monika Lindt ” a German TV-series aired prime time on RTL., which led to
another leading role in the film “Hosenflattern” aka.“Where Did You Last See Your Trousers?” for ZDF 1998. This year Gry also toured
England and USA with Kid Creole as a Coconut and solo singer and still performs with the band.
For 5 years Gry played parts and appeared as a danser and singer in various musicals in the main theatres of Denmark And in 1999 Gry
showed her versatile talent by leaping to the rescue and taking over the lead role as Sally in “Me And My Girl” on Nørrebros Teater without rehearsals for three nights running when the original actress fell ill.The following year, also at Nørrebros Teater, she played the part of
Brooke Ashton in Michael Frayn’s acclaimed comedy “Noises Off”.
From 2002 she began acting in danish movies for cinema, where she also wrote some filmmusic and it was her acchievements as a
songwriter that led to her starring role in “All About Anna”, a love comedy. And this again led to one of the leading roles in Pipilotti Rist’s
filminstallation shown at the Biennale In Venice 2005 & Louisiana DK 2010.
Parallel to her acting career, Gry Bay has studied drama and music at the University of Copenhagen and holds a master degree in theaterscience & drama (Shakespeare).
In November she is releasing her first solo album Thousands of Butterflies with her own material - a Gry Bay portraet with 13. personal
pop numbers.