Cathy Lee Crosby

Cathy Lee Crosby
Crosby in 1984
Born	December 2, 1944 (1944-12-02) (age 64) 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.^[1] and completed the controversial Purification Rundown detoxification regimen in 1980.^[2]

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. When the show first aired, she was sent what she's come to refer to as "the nipple memo," informing her that it would be "acceptable" if she went braless during her appearances on the show. She declined, tossing off her own memo saying, "I would prefer to choose my own underwear."

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.

Her sister is model/actress Cindi Crosby, who played Sandra on the "Peter and the Wolf" episode, season 5, of the Brady Bunch.

References

External links

• Cathy Lee Crosby at the Internet Movie Database
• Cathy Lee Crosby at TV.com