Basic Information About Linda Evans
Category | Celebrities βΊ Actors |
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Professions | Actor, Author |
Net worth | $20,000,000 |
Date of birth | 1942-11-18 (81 years old) |
Place of birth | Hartford |
Nationality | United States of America |
Curiosities and Trademarks | Platinum blonde hair Sparkling blue eyes Voluptuous figure Seductive deep voice |
Spouse | Stan Herman - (4 JulyΒ 1975 - 1979)Β (divorced) John Derek - (1968 - 1974)Β (divorced) |
Gender | Female |
Height | 5 ft 7 in (1.72 m) |
Social Media | βοΈ Wikipedia βοΈ IMDb |
Famous Network of Actors with Similar Net Worth
What Movie Awards did Linda Evans win?
Oscar |
Golden Globe |
Golder Raspberry |
BAFTA |
Other |
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0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Linda Evans roles
Movie / Series | Role |
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Beach Blanket Bingo | Sugar Kane |
Banacek | Cherry Saint-SaΓ«ns 1 episode, 1974 |
Mannix | Lorna Wilder 1 episode, 1974 |
Das Traumschiff | 1 episode, 2020 |
Dynasty | Krystle Carrington / ... 212 episodes, 1981-1989 |
The Love Boat | Barbara Fields / ... 6 episodes, 1981-1984 |
Dr. Kildare | Student Nurse #1 1 episode, 1964 |
The Oprah Winfrey Show | Self 1 episode, 2010 |
Linda Evans's Movie/Shows Salary
Movie / Series | Salary |
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DynastyΒ (1981) | $52,000 per episode (season 6) |
Linda Evans's Quotes
- A whole family would be absurd now. But one child would be wonderful.
- [on Aaron Spelling]: Aaron Spelling went further than anyone has ever gone for television.
- After Dynasty (1981), I wanted a reality check. I wanted to get in touch with real life, you know? That kind of world is kind of outrageous.
- All my life, I kind of had the strangest career because whenever I fell in love, I stopped working.
- [When she won on Hell's Kitchen (2005)]: I'm glad I did it, I volunteered to be here and I said I wanted to learn and I'm going to learn.
Interesting Facts about Linda Evans
- Attended Hollywood High School with Stefanie Powers.
- Engaged to Patrick Curtis (1960-1962).
- Partner of Linda Evans Fitness Centers (15 locations) which eventually closed after she left the partnership in 2004 and began working with another fitness chain.
- As a teenager, she guest starred in a 1960 episode of Bachelor Father: A Crush on Bentley (1960) as a girl who develops a crush on John Forsythe's character. Some 21 years later, she co-starred on the television series Dynasty (1981) as Forsythe's wife and was friends with him until his death in 2010.
- Her real last name, Evanstad, is of Norwegian origin.
- Ex-stepmother of Sean Catherine Derek.
- Joan Rivers once said that Linda Evans "is one of the only people in the business I've never heard anything negative about".
- Cohabited with Yanni (1989-1998).
- In 1959, she was voted an "Honorary Colonel" at the Hollywood Legion Post 43 on a gala night that featured upcoming female stars. Another girl in the group that same night was Barbara Parkins.
- Because to her character's name on Dynasty (1981), she starred in an advertising campaign for Crystal Light beverages, starting in 1984.
- In 2006, Evans reunited with her Dynasty (1981) castmates for the non-fiction reunion special Dynasty Reunion: Catfights & Caviar (2006).
- Regularly listed as one of the most beautiful women in America, she appeared in Playboy magazine at the behest of then-husband John Derek in 1971. Those photos were published a second time in 1982 when she was turning forty.
- In 2009, she won the fourth series of the British reality television series Hell's Kitchen (2004).
- Former Miss Golden Globe.
- Barbara Stanwyck, her television mother on The Big Valley (1965), always called her "Audra" after her character Audra Barkley, even after the series ended. She claims she learned much about acting from Stanwyck.
- Her singing vocals in Beach Blanket Bingo (1965) was dubbed by Jackie Ward (known at the time as Robin Ward), who was one of the most popular studio singers of the 1960s-1970s.
- Honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6834 Hollywood Boulevard in Hollywood, California. [August 1987]
- Her best friends are Sean Catherine Derek and Bunky Young. When Linda retired from acting and moved to Washington state, Sean and Bunky moved there too.
- Became a step-grandmother at age 26 when her nineteen-year-old stepson Russell Derek and his wife Lynette had a girl, Alyce, on June 28, 1969.
- She was one of the guests at the wedding of Prince Charles and Camilla Parker-Bowles.
References & Fact Checks β
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back - Author: McFadden, Strauss, Eddy & Irwin for Armstrong, the program's sponsor.
- Date taken: Release says the show was to premiere September 15, but gave no year. It did so on September 15, 1965.
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press release - Author: NBC Television
- Date taken: No year shown-this episode aired in 1974