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Cathy Lee Crosby
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Cathy Lee Crosby

Crosby as Wonder Woman, ABC 1974
Born December 2, 1944 (1944-12-02) (age 62)
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 is a co-host of the television series That's Incredible.

[edit] Biography

[edit] 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 ranking as high as seventh seed. 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 detoxication regimen in 1980.[2]

She was in a relationship with football star Joe Theismann throughout most of the 1980s. They split up sometime 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. When in 1992 he sued her for half of her assets she declared herself bankrupt.

On April 9, 1997, she made an appearance to promote her new book, Let the Magic Begin and was interviewed on the Howard Stern Show. She came across as delightful and charming while she revealed that she had dated Richard Roundtree and Don Henley.

[edit] Career
Crosby began her entertainment career as a regular on Dean Martin's TV series Dean Martin Presents the Golddiggers in 1969. 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 loose made-for-TV adaptation of the comic book (two years before Lynda Carter played the role to greater effect). This incarnation of Wonder Woman makes a one-panel cameo in the comic book Infinite Crisis #6 as part of an alternate Earth.

Crosby was a co-host of the TV series That's Incredible from 1980 to 1984 on ABC. In 1986, she was also 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. The film was not a big financial success.