Linda Evans

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Linda Evans is an American actress known primarily for her roles on television. In the 1960s, she gained notice for playing Audra Barkley in the Western television series, The Big Valley (1965-1969). However she is most prominently known for the role of Krystle Carrington in the 1980s ABC prime time soap opera Dynasty, a role she played from 1981 to 1989. Evans was born on November 18, 1942. When Evans was six months old, the family moved from Hartford to North Hollywood. She attended Hollywood High School, where she was a sorority sister of future actress Carole Wells. When she started her professional career, she changed her last name to "Evans". Evans' first guest-starring role was on a 1960 episode of Bachelor Father, which starred her future screen husband, John Forsythe. She would co-star with him 20 years later on Dynasty. Evans gained her first regular role in 1965 in The Big Valley. Playing Audra Barkley, daughter of Victoria Barkley (played by Barbara Stanwyck), Evans was credited in the series until it ended in 1969, though she was only a semi-regular cast member during the last two seasons. In 1980, Evans was cast as John Forsythe's wife, Krystle Carrington, in Aaron Spelling's opulent new primetime soap opera, Dynasty. Intended as ABC Television's answer to the hit CBS series Dallas, the show first aired in January 1981. In her late teens, Evans was engaged to Patrick Curtis, who later became a press agent and married Raquel Welch. Evans has been married and divorced twice. Her first marriage was to actor, photographer and film director John Derek. They married in 1968 and separated in 1974 when Derek disclosed his affair with Bo Derek, who was 30 years his junior, and was 16 years old when the relationship began. Evans' second marriage was to Stan Herman, a property executive, from 1975 to 1980. In 1989, she began a relationship with new age musician Yanni, which lasted until 1998. She is close with her ex-stepdaughter Sean Catherine Derek, who has a summer house next to Evans' property in Washington state, and with John's Europe-based second wife, Ursula Andress, a frequent houseguest at her home in Beverly Hills. Evans appeared in Playboy magazine at the behest of her then-husband John Derek in 1971. As she gained tremendous fame on Dynasty, the photos were published a second time in 1982.

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@discogirl5744 3 жыл бұрын

She looked like a barbie doll when she was on big valley!! She really was one of the prettiest women at that time.

@mattleinhauser9166 Жыл бұрын

Absolutely gorgeous woman in love with her. What an angel ❤😇

@TomWill2 7 жыл бұрын

I grew up following Linda Evans as she was my childhood crush. First class lady!

@roberta.lofgrenjr.9182 6 жыл бұрын

Tom Williams, I agree. I had a crush on her also that when my sister got married and had a baby girl, she named her Audra because I told her too name her after Linda Evans and she did.