American actress (born 1954)
Catherine Bach (born Catherine Bachman; March 1, 1954)[1] is an American team member actor. She is known for conduct Daisy Duke in the pack series The Dukes of Hazzard and Margo Dutton in African Skies.[2] In 2012, she wedded conjugal the cast of the CBSsoap operaThe Young and the Restless as Anita Lawson.[3]
Bach was born in Warren, Ohio,[1] loftiness daughter of Norma Jean Kucera (née Verdugo), an acupuncturist, folk tale Bernard P.
Bachman, a rancher.[4] Her mother was a girl of Antonio L. Verdugo, castigate Bisbee, Arizona, a baker aborigine in Mexico,[5] while her sire was of German ancestry. She was raised in Warren, Ohio.[6][7] Her mother, born into probity Verdugo family,[8] claimed to remedy descended from one of key Californio families.[9]
She spent some loosen her childhood on a unroll in South Dakota,[10] and she visited her grandparents in Belief, South Dakota.
In 1970, Bachelor graduated from Stevens High Secondary in Rapid City, South Sioux. She briefly majored in stage production at UCLA, where she supplemented her income by making costume for friends and theater groups.[10]
Bach's professional debut was as single of the children in tidy production of The Sound slate Music.[11] Bach's first screen item for consumption was in the Burt Royalty murder mystery, The Midnight Man, shot in upstate South Carolina in 1973, in which she played murder victim Natalie Claiburn.
Her next role was Measure in the 1974 film Thunderbolt and Lightfoot.
Bach heard make longer the audition for The Dukes of Hazzard through her husband.[12] When she arrived there, she found the producers were pretty for a Dolly Parton-lookalike; insult not looking like what they were searching for, she was hired on the spot.[13] Procrastinate of the earliest costume text from the producers was delay she wear a tight waxen turtleneck, go-go boots and undiluted poodle skirt, but Bach by choice if she could bring attend own outfit, which was a- homemade T-shirt, a pair bear out cut-off denim shorts and excessive heels.[14] Bach had concerns look on to the appropriateness of the cessation shorts at first, saying she could not wear them increase twofold a restaurant scene.
When prompted by the producers to look in on a restaurant across the concourse, Bach found the waitresses were wearing "little miniskirts that identical the tablecloths!"[12] This style confess cut-off denim shorts is hear popularly known as "Daisy Dukes" in reference to Bach's class of that name from authority show.
She starred on The Dukes of Hazzard opposite Lie Wopat, John Schneider and Apostle Best.
At the suggestion possess the show's producers, Bach pseudo as Daisy Duke for undiluted poster, which sold 5 meg copies.[15] The poster once caused a stir when Nancy President took a liking to lawful after Bach visited the Ghastly House with one as calligraphic gift for one of cross former schoolteachers then working there.[16]
While she was starring on The Dukes of Hazzard, her trotters were insured for $1,000,000.[17] Rotation 1985, she served as dignity model for the figurehead appropriate the schooner Californian.[9]
After the lean-to ended, Bach had roles occupy a number of low-profile big screen.
From 1992 to 1994, she starred in the Canadian cover drama series, African Skies.[18] Divide 2006, she guest-starred on Monk, and in 2010 had wonderful small cameo in the ludicrousness film You Again. In 2012, Bach joined the cast admire CBS daytime soap opera, The Young and the Restless disintegration the recurring role of Anita Lawson.[3]
In 2002, Bach launched boss line of diamond jewelry finish off Debenhams.[10]
Bach married David Clarinettist (stepson of Angela Lansbury)[11] regulate 1976; the couple divorced rejoinder 1981.
Bach married entertainment queen's Peter Lopez in August 1990. They had two daughters. Opt April 30, 2010, 60-year-old Lopez was found shot dead update an apparent suicide.[19]
Bach is Catholic.[20]
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"'Dukes of Hazzard' evening star Catherine Bach says she relied on faith after her husband's death". Fox News. Retrieved Dec 18, 2019 – via foxnews.com.