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Biography for
Linda Evans (I)

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Date of Birth
18 November 1942, Hartford, Connecticut, USA

Birth Name
Linda Evanstad

Height
5' 8" (1.73 m)

Spouse
Stan Herman (4 July 1975 - 1981) (divorced)
John Derek (1968 - 1974) (divorced)

Trivia

Attended Hollywood High School with Stefanie Powers.

Engaged to Patrick Curtis (1960-1962).

Dated Yanni [1989 - January 1998]

Owner of Linda Evans Fitness Centers (15 locations)

As a teenager, she guest starred in a 1960 episode of TV's "Bachelor Father: A Crush on Bentley (#4.5)" (1960) as a girl who develops a crush on John Forsythe's character. Some twenty years later, she co-starred on the hit TV series "Dynasty" (1981) as John Forsythe's wife.

Measurements: 34-24-34 (self-described 1968), (Source: Celebrity Sleuth magazine)

Her real last name, Evanstad, is of Norwegian origin.

She was one of the guests at Prince Charles' and Camilla Parker-Bowles' wedding.

Friend of Bo Derek.

Ex-stepmother of Sean Catherine Derek.


Personal Quotes

A whole family would be absurd now. But one child would be wonderful.

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.


Where Are They Now

(2000) Touring the country speaking on womens aging issues

(October 2006) Begins an eight-month theater tour of North America opposite her "Dynasty" (1981) co-star Joan Collins in the play "Legends!" by 'James Kirkwood Jr', the late Pulitzer Prize Winning author of the Broadway musical "A Chorus Line".


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