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American actress Linda Evans has been a television icon in the 1960s and the 1980s. Evans first guest-star role was in the 1960 episode of the Bachelor Father. In the said series, John Frosythe played the lead role in which she co-starred on Dynasty 20 years later. In 1965, Evans gained her first major regular role in The Big Valley, playing the role of Audra Barkley until the show ended in 1969. She is most remembered for her performance as Krystle Carrington, the former secretary and wife of oil magnate Blake Carrington, in the hit prime time soap opera, Dynasty.

Evans garnered the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress for that role. After her Dynasty stardom, she semi-retired in the show business and has only appeared occasionally on television to give her focus on business investments and in establishing a small chain of fitness centers. She also authored the book Linda Evans Beauty and Exercise in 1983.