Cathy Lee Crosby
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Cathy Lee Crosby (born December 2, 1944) is an American actress. She achieved TV and film success in the early 1970s and is probably best known as a co-host of the television series That's Incredible.
[edit] Biography
Born in Los Angeles, California, Crosby is the daughter of announcer Lou Crosby and actress Linda Hayes.
She joined the Church of Scientology in 1979 and underwent their controversial Purification Rundown detoxication regimen in 1980.[1] She left the Church in the early 1990s but is still listed as a member in their Hall of Fame at the Los Angeles Celebrity Centre. [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.
Crosby would eventually be diagnosed with Epstein-Barr syndrome. [3]
[edit] Career
Cathy 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.
She 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.
Cathy 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. Unfortunately the film, unlike the book, was not a huge hit.
