To bring her out of her shyness her parents insisted that she take drama at school.
He loved photographing me and he took pictures of me every day.
She played in the series The Big Valley.
The first role was in 1960 in Bachelor Father.
Regularly listed as one of the most beautiful women in America, she appeared in magazine at the behest of her then-husband John Derek in 1971; those photos were published a second time in 1982 when she was turning 40.
She would co-star with him on Dynasty, as the wife of an oil multimillionaire more than two decades later.