Cathy Lee Crosby (born December 2, 1944) is an American actress and former professionaltennis player. She achieved TV and film success in the 1980s and was a co-host of the television seriesThat's Incredible!^[1][2]

Cathy Lee Crosby
Crosby in 1984
Born	(1944-12-02)December 2, 1944 (age 80) Los Angeles, California, U.S.
Alma mater	University of Southern California
Occupations	Tennis player actress entertainer
Known for	That's Incredible! Wonder Woman The Dark
Spouse	Alexander Ingle ​ ​ (m. 1966;div. 1968)​

Crosby was born inLos Angeles, the middle daughter of three.^[3] Her father, Louis Clayton Crosby, was a scriptwriter-songwriter (he was also the National Commercial Spokesman forDodge Automobiles onThe Lawrence Welk Show),^[4][5][6][7] and her mother, Linda Hayes, was "an RKO contract actress in the 1940s".^[3][8] Her parents eventually separated, and her father relocated to Australia.^[8]

She excelled attennis as a youth, starting the game at age 12.^[3] She was ranked as high as #7 insingles^[8] in US junior tennis competition and #4 indoubles,^[9] which she often played with her elder sister, Linda Lou, as her partner.^[8]

She graduated in 1968 from theUniversity of Southern California with a degree inpsychology,^[3] although she originally waspre-med.^[8]

Crosby was a professional tennis player who played atWimbledon^[2] twice, quitting the sport professionally sometime between 1967^[3] and 1970.^[8]

As an actress, her first TV appearance was as Susan in the episode "The Lay of the Land" in the first season ofIt Takes a Thief (1968). Her first movie role was a lead as Ann Chris inMichael Shurtleff's film version of his playCall Me by My Rightful Name (1972), oppositeDon Murray andOtis Young. The following year she played Kay Butler in the20th Century FoxcrimedramaThe Laughing Policeman (1973).^[8]

In 1974, she starred as the title character in thetelevision filmWonder Woman,^[8] a year beforeLynda Carter popularized the role in the weekly seriesWonder Woman. In 1975, she guest starred asHelen of Troy in an episode of the scifi/horror seriesKolchak: The Night Stalker. Crosby starred in the movieTrackdown (1976), the TV movieKeefer (1978), and inCoach (1978), in which she played the coach of a high school basketball team who falls for one of her players. She played Libby Hall in S2 E16 of "The Love Boat" (1979).

She starred in the horror movieThe Dark (1979), the 1982 TV miniseriesWorld War III, and appeared in the TV movieIntimate Strangers (1986). She also played herself in cameo roles inThe Last Horror Film (1982) andRobert Altman's 1992 filmThe Player.

Crosby was a co-host of the TV seriesThat's Incredible!^[2] from 1980 to 1984 onABC, which remains in world-wide syndication. In 1986, she was a guest commentator for the nationally televised special ofWorld Wrestling Federation (WWF)'sWrestleMania 2.^{[citation needed]}

Crosby starred as Judith Main in the 1994 TV miniseriesNorth and South: Book III. The same year she appeared in theLifetime movieUntamed Love (1994), based on Torey Hayden'sOne Child, and later starred in the filmAblaze (2001).^{[citation needed]}

Crosby was married at age 21 to Alexander Wilfred Ingle on July 30, 1966; they divorced in 1968.^[3] She dated actorRichard Roundtree during the mid 1970s.^[10]

She was in a relationship withfootball starJoe Theismann^[11] throughout the early 1980s. Their romantic relationship ended in 1991, after which she sued him for $4.5 million because he "abandoned his promise to financially support her".^[12] Theismann responded with a countersuit, ultimately leading to both settling out of court.^[13]

She was briefly a follower ofScientology.^[3]

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