| This article does not cite any references or sources. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unverifiable material may be challenged and removed. (August 2007) | Cathy Lee Crosby (born December 2, 1944) is an American actress. She achieved TV and film success in the early 1970s and was a co-host of the television series That's Incredible. Biography 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. 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. and completed the controversial Purification Rundown detoxification regimen in 1980. She was in a relationship with football star Joe Theismann throughout the early 1980s. They split up 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. According to her autobiography, "Let the Magic Begin," when Theismann sued for half of her assets, Crosby declared herself bankrupt. On April 9, 1997 she made an appearance to promote her new book on the Howard Stern Show. She revealed that she had dated actor Richard Roundtree and musician Don Henley. Career Crosby began her entertainment career on Dean Martin's TV series Dean Martin Presents the Golddiggers in 1968. 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 made-for-TV adaptation of the comic book (a year before Lynda Carter would popularize the role in a weekly series). Although the telefilm was a ratings success, producers decided to retool the product to more closely resemble the comic book version, resulting in Crosby being let go. Her incarnation of Wonder Woman makes a one-panel cameo in the comic book Infinite Crisis #6 as part of an alternate Earth. She starred in the movie "Coach", with Terminator-star Michael Biehn, in 1978. She played the coach of a high school basketball team, who falls for one of her players. Crosby was a co-host of the TV series That's Incredible from 1980 to 1984 on ABC. In 1986, she was 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. Her sister is model/actress Cindi (Cindy) Crosby, who played Sandra on the "Peter and the Wolf" episode, season 5, of the Brady Bunch. In this episode, Greg asks Sandra out on a date but needs to get another date for her visiting cousin Linda. No one will go on a blind date so Greg enlists his much younger brother Peter. He lowers his voice and wears a fake mustache on their double date at the drive-in. The girls catch on to this prank and the following night, Sandra and Linda are all over Peter at a restaurant (where Peter and Greg's parents happen to be having a very important business dinner with a couple from Mexico). Cindi Crosby also appears in the November 15, 1970 issue of VOGUE magazine on pages 95-97. References - Church of Scientology, Auditor magazine, Issue 163, September 1979
- Church of Scientology, Celebrity magazine, September 1980
External links - Cathy Lee Crosby at the Internet Movie Database
- Cathy Lee Crosby at TV.com
- Cathy Lee Crosby at Celebrity Movie Archive
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