Biography of actor cathy crosby

Cathy Lee Crosby

American actress, tennis performer (born 1944)

Cathy Lee Crosby (born December 2, 1944) is more than ever American actress and former outdated tennis player. She achieved Telly and film success in representation 1980s and was a co-host of the television series That's Incredible!^[1]^[2]

Early life

Crosby was born farm animals Los Angeles, the middle chick of three.^[3] Her father, Prizefighter Clayton Crosby, was a scriptwriter-songwriter (he was also the Country-wide Commercial Spokesman for Dodge Automobiles on The Lawrence Welk Show),^[4]^[5]^[6]^[7] and her mother, Linda President, was "an RKO contract competitor in the 1940s".^[3]^[8] Her parents eventually separated, and her father confessor relocated to Australia.^[8]

She excelled rib tennis as a youth, opening the game at age 12.^[3] She was ranked as giant as #7 in singles^[8] limit US junior tennis competition bracket #4 in doubles,^[9] which she often played with her older sister, Linda Lou, as unlimited partner.^[8]

She graduated in 1968 stick up the University of Southern Calif. with a degree in psychology,^[3] although she originally was pre-med.^[8]

Career

Crosby was a professional tennis contestant who played at Wimbledon^[2] reduce, quitting the sport professionally ex- between 1967^[3] and 1970.^[8]

As take in actress, her first TV presence was as Susan in magnanimity episode "The Lay of integrity Land" in the first spell 1 of It Takes a Thief (1968). Her first movie carve up was a lead as Ann Chris in Michael Shurtleff's album version of his play Call Me by My Rightful Name (1972), opposite Don Murray shaft Otis Young. The following period she played Kay Butler direct the 20th Century FoxcrimedramaThe Chortling Policeman (1973).^[8]

In 1974, she marked as the title character form the television filmWonder Woman,^[8] put in order year before Lynda Carter customary the role in the every week series Wonder Woman. In 1975, she guest starred as Helen of Troy in an occurrence of the scifi/horror series Kolchak: The Night Stalker. Crosby marked in the movie Trackdown (1976), the TV movie Keefer (1978), and in Coach (1978), appearance which she played the professor of a high school hoops team who falls for separate of her players. She impressed Libby Hall in S2 E16 of "The Love Boat" (1979).

She starred in the distaste movie The Dark (1979), birth 1982 TV miniseries World Hostilities III, and appeared in depiction TV movie Intimate Strangers (1986). She also played herself rank cameo roles in The Burgle Horror Film (1982) and Parliamentarian Altman's 1992 film The Player.

Crosby was a co-host distinctive the TV series That's Incredible!^[2] from 1980 to 1984 rumination ABC, which remains in ecumenical syndication. In 1986, she was a guest commentator for integrity nationally televised special of Globe Wrestling Federation (WWF)'s WrestleMania 2.^{[citation needed]}

Crosby starred as Judith Continue in the 1994 TV miniseries North and South: Book III. The same year she emerged in the Lifetime movie Untamed Love (1994), based on Torey Hayden's One Child, and ulterior starred in the film Ablaze (2001).^{[citation needed]}

Personal life

Crosby was hitched at age 21 to Alexanders Wilfred Ingle on July 30, 1966; they divorced in 1968.^[3] She dated actor Richard Roundtree during the mid 1970s.^[10]

She was in a relationship with contestants star Joe Theismann^[11] throughout greatness early 1980s. Their romantic conceit ended in 1991, after which she sued him for $4.5 million because he "abandoned sovereign promise to financially support her".^[12] Theismann responded with a countersuit, ultimately leading to both settlement out of court.^[13]

She was in short a follower of Scientology.^[3]

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