Cathy Lee Crosby

Infobox actor

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caption = Crosby in 1984
birthdate = Birth date and age|1944|12|2|mf=y
birthplace = Los Angeles, California

Cathy Lee Crosby (born December 2, 1944) is an American actress. She achieved TV and film success in the early 1970s and was a co-host of the television series "That's Incredible".

Biography

Personal life

Born in Los Angeles, California, Crosby is the daughter of announcer Lou Crosby and actress Linda Hayes. Crosby was, at one time, a professional tennis player.

Later she took courses in the Church of Scientology and in 1979, she reached Scientology state of "Clear" as Clear #16,459, during courses she took at Scientology's Celebrity Centre in Los Angeles, California. [Church of Scientology, "Auditor" magazine, Issue 163, September 1979] and completed the controversial Purification Rundown detoxification regimen in 1980. [Church of Scientology, "Celebrity" magazine, September 1980]

She was in a relationship with football star Joe Theismann throughout the early 1980s. They split up after Theismann retired from football with a career-ending injury in 1985, which he suffered while playing with his Washington Redskins on "Monday Night Football". According to her autobiography, "Let the Magic Begin," when Theismann sued for half of her assets, Crosby declared herself bankrupt.

On April 9, 1997 she made an appearance to promote her new book on the Howard Stern Show. She revealed that she had dated actor Richard Roundtree and musician Don Henley.

Career

Crosby began her entertainment career on Dean Martin's TV series "Dean Martin Presents the Golddiggers" in 1968. Her first movie role was as Kay Butler in the 20th Century Fox crime drama "The Laughing Policeman" (1973) starring Walter Matthau, Bruce Dern, and Louis Gossett, Jr..

In 1974, she starred as Wonder Woman in a made-for-TV adaptation of the comic book (a year before Lynda Carter would popularize the role in a weekly series). Although the telefilm was a ratings success, producers decided to retool the product to more closely resemble the comic book version, resulting in Crosby being let go. Her incarnation of Wonder Woman makes a one-panel cameo in the comic book Infinite Crisis #6 as part of an alternate Earth.

She starred in the movie "Coach", with Terminator-star Michael Biehn, in 1978. She played the coach of a high school basketball team, who falls for one of her players.

Crosby was a co-host of the TV series "That's Incredible" from 1980 to 1984 on ABC.

In 1986, she was a guest commentator for the Chicago portion of World Wrestling Federation (WWF)'s "WrestleMania 2".

Crosby acted in the romantic comedy "The Last Guy on Earth" (2006) and also starred in the movie "Untamed Love", based on Torey Hayden's "One Child".

References

External links

*imdb name|id=0004848|name=Cathy Lee Crosby
*tvtome person|id=36552|name=Cathy Lee Crosby
* [http://www.celebritymoviearchive.com/tour/name.php/1367 Cathy Lee Crosby] at Celebrity Movie Archive