Linda Evans

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Evans won a Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Television Drama Series for her Dynasty role in 1981, and was subsequently nominated every year from 1982 to 1985. She was nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series in 1983. Evans won a People's Choice Award for Favorite Female Performer in a New TV Program in 1982, and for Favorite Female TV Performer in 1983, 1984, 1985, and 1986. She won a Soap Opera Digest Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in 1984 and 1985.

Evans was hired as a spokesperson for the beverage Crystal Light due to her character's name.

Evans left Dynasty in 1989, four months before the series came to an end, after only appearing in six episodes of the 22-episode ninth and final season. After leaving Dynasty, Evans semiretired from acting and made only occasional television appearances. Instead, she devoted her time to fitness issues and set up a small chain of fitness centers. In the 1990s, Evans hosted for Rejuvenique, a mask for toning facial muscles. She had previously written the Linda Evans Beauty and Exercise book in 1983. She also kept in touch with Forsythe, until he died on April 1, 2010, and she was devastated by his death. Evans first met Forsythe as an unfamiliar actress aged 18, for her first speaking part: Her agent "signed me up for Bachelor Father and John Forsythe gave me my first speaking part."

In 1991, Evans returned to the role of Krystle Carrington for the television miniseries . Following this, she appeared in three made-for-TV movies in the 1990s, but then retired from screen acting altogether in 1997.

In 2005, actress Melora Hardin portrayed Evans in , a fictionalized television film based on the creation and production of Dynasty.

In 2006, Evans reunited with her Dynasty castmates for the nonfiction reunion special Dynasty: Catfights and Caviar. She then starred in the stage play Legends opposite her former Dynasty rival Collins. In 2009, Evans appeared in and won the British TV program Hell's Kitchen, working under Michelin Guide chef Marco Pierre White.

In 2021 Evans returned to acting, taking a small role in the critically acclaimed movie Swan Song.

Evans has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6834 Hollywood Boulevard in Hollywood, California.

Subsequently, Evans has been married and divorced twice. Her first marriage was to actor, photographer, and film director John Derek. They started dating in 1965, married in 1968, and separated on Christmas Day 1973, when Derek disclosed his affair with 17-year old Mary Cathleen Collins (30 years his junior), who become known as Bo Derek after they married.Cheryl Lavin (October 29, 1982). Derek's daughter details unhappy life with father. Ottawa Citizen.Sue Reilly (June 16, 1980). John Derek Might Not Approve, but Linda Evans, His Ex-Wife, Is Cast as a 6 and Proud of It. People magazine.

Evans' second marriage was to Stan Herman, a realtor and property executive, from 1975 to 1979. She then lived with restaurant owner George Santo Pietro, from 1980 to 1984. Evans also dated The Big Valley castmate Lee Majors for a brief period following her second divorce, as well as businessmen Richard Cohen (an ex-husband of Tina Sinatra) and Dennis Stein (a former fiancé of Elizabeth Taylor) during the mid-1980s. In 1989, Evans began a relationship with Yanni, which lasted until 1998.Dan Jewel (February 16, 1998). Out of Key. People magazine.

Her best friend is her ex-stepdaughter, television writer Sean Catherine Derek. Her prior best friend was Bunky Young, Evans' former assistant of over 40 years, who died in 2021.