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Linda Evenstad was born on 20 November 1942, in Hartford, Connecticut USA, and is an actress best known for her appearances on American television. Evans has Norwegian ancestry as her grandmother had immigrated to the US. Linda gained notice from “The Big Valley”, a western television series, but her role as Krystle Carrington in the ABC prime time soap opera “Dynasty” came to be the breakthrough role in her career.

A famous actress who has personified beauty and grace to American viewers, one might wonder how rich is Linda Evans? Well, as indicated by sources, Linda has an estimated net wealth amounting to $25 million as of early 2016. Acting is the major reason for her wealth. Being a television personality and fitness book author has also added to her net worth over the years.

Linda Evans Net Worth $25 Million

Being the second child to her parents, who were both professional dancers, Linda was a shy girl. When she was six, her family moved from Hartford to North Hollywood. In order to bring Linda out of her shy nature, her teacher made her take drama at school.

When she started her career as a professional actor, she changed her last name from “Evenstad” to “Evans”. Linda found fame as her role as Krystle, in “Dynasty” made her one of the most celebrated female actress of the 1980s. She left the show in 1989, after which she devoted her time to fitness issues, and set up fitness centers. She hosted infomercials and also wrote her “Linda Evans Beauty and Exercise” book in 1983. She returned for the role of Krystle Carrington in “Dynasty: The Reunion” in 1991. She then retired altogether in 1997, however, in 2006 Linda reunited with her “Dynasty” cast for reunion special “Dynasty: Cat fights and Caviar”. Evans also appeared in and won “Hell’s Kitchen” in 2009, working under Chef Marco Pierre White. Linda has made guest appearances in various TV shows as well.

Being a celebrated actress of the 80s Linda has been honored with many awards. She won the Golden Globe award for Best Actress-Television Series Drama (1982), People’s Choice Awards For Favorite Female TV Performer (1983-1986), People’s Choice Awards For Favorite Female Performer In a New TV Program, and was nominated in many important categories for her part in “Dynasty”. She has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, California.

Regarding her Personal life, Linda was engaged to Patrick Curtis who later married Raquel Welch. She has been married and divorced twice; her first marriage was in 1968 with John Derek a photographer and a film director. They separated in 1974. Her second marriage was with the property executive Stan Herman from 1975 to 1980. Linda began her research on alternate healing and neuropathy after being diagnosed with idiopathic edema. So, with assets net worth of $25 million, Linda currently resides in Rainier, Washington living a celebrated life as a legendary television actress while making use of every penny of her well deserved wealth.



Full Name Linda Evans
Net Worth $25 Million
Date Of Birth 20 November, 1942
Place Of Birth Hartford, Connecticut, U.S.
Height 1.72 m
Profession Actress
Education Hollywood High School
Nationality American
Spouse Stan Herman (m. 1975 – 1981),John Derek (m. 1968 – 1974)
Partner Yanni
Facebook https://www.facebook.com/LindaEvansOfficialpage
IMDB www.imdb.com/name/nm0002067
Awards Miss Golden Globe (1963), People’s Choice Award for Favorite Female TV Performer (1986, 1985, 1984, 1983), People’s Choice Award for Favorite Actress in a New TV Series (1982), Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Television Series Drama (1982),
Nominations Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series (1983)
Movies Tom Horn, Beach Blanket Bingo, Dynasty: The Reunion, Avalanche Express, The Klansman, The Last Frontier, The Gambler Returns: The Luck of the Draw, Those Calloways, Twilight of Honor, Mitchell, Nowhere to Run, The Dark, Krystle, She’ll Take Romance, Bare Essence, Classic Cinema: Richard Burton Tripl…
TV Shows European Soundmix Show, Dynasty, Hunter, The Big Valley, Hell’s Kitchen
Trademark
1 Deep sultry voice
2 Voluptuous figure
3 Sparkling blue eyes
4 Platinum blonde hair
Title Salary
Dynasty (1981) $52,000 per episode (season 6)
Dynasty (1981) $40,000 per episode (season 5)
Quote
1 [on David Janssen, who died in 1980] To this day, I still miss that guy; he was one of a kind.
2 [Of John Forsythe]: When I did meet him in Bachelor Father (1957), it was a show called Crush on Bentley, and his niece that was Bachelor Father, of and I were the same age, 15 years old (Noreen Corcoran). We did the show and I had a crush on Bentley, and in the end, he fixes me up with these football players, and it was so sweet getting to know him, then, and he signed my script, because it was my first speaking part and he put on it, “Linda, you’re going to be somebody someday and I found it when I was doing Dynasty,” and brought on the set and say, “See John, you were psychic, you knew this was going to happen.” It was so easy when I saw him when I walked on the set of Dynasty (1981). He looked at me and he said, “Mine Linda Evans, did how you’re grown and how’s your mother, Arlene?”. And he remembered my mother’s name. He remembered my real name – which is Evanstad. MGM Studios later changed it to Evans. I said, “Oh John, it’s going to be so easy to love you in this part and it was Heaven to work with him, absolute Heaven, he had the most delicious sense of humor.” He would make me laugh, all day long and we had so much drama, and on the script of Dynasty, and fights and things that we had to do with people, and he would constantly just joking/laughing, saying, “Come on, you can do this?”. And we have to go out to get some awards and I was afraid to get up and in-front of people, when I was in junior high school – from that day, I was so shy and get up to do a book report, and he would encourage me and take my hand and walk up with me, he was extraordinary. We remained friends until he died, I talked to him like three weeks before he passed, and we talked all the time.
3 [on her on- and off-screen chemistry with John Forsythe, who played Blake Carrington]: Well, he gave me my first speaking part ever when I was 15, Bachelor Father (1957), and I had a crush on him! I played his niece’s friend, and he wrote on the script, “You are going to be somebody someday.” And I brought that on the set of Dynasty (1981), about the third year I found it, and I said, “John, look what you wrote.”.
4 [Who paid tribute to John Forsythe]: A man who may come into work everyday so magical. This show was so serious and he was funny personally. We’d be fighting and people would be strangling each other and he made me laugh, all day long, who’ll ever be forever grateful to him for that.
5 [When she was battling menopause and depression]: For the first time in my life, I understood what it was like to not be totally in control of my life. I am in a downward spiral to hell, it just got worse and worse. It was like all the lights were down low.
6 [When she won on Hell’s Kitchen (2005)]: I’m glad I did it, I volunteered to be here and I said I wanted to learn and I’m going to learn.
7 All my life, I kind of had the strangest career because whenever I fell in love, I stopped working.
8 [When she had different roles to play]: After Dynasty (1981), I wanted a reality check. I wanted to get in touch with real life, you know? That kind of world is kind of outrageous.
9 [on Aaron Spelling]: Aaron Spelling went further than anyone has ever gone for television.
10 A whole family would be absurd now. But one child would be wonderful.
Fact
1 Credits John Forsythe as her favorite acting mentor/best friend.
2 Surrogate younger wife of John Forsythe.
3 Describes John Derek and Yanni as the two great loves of her life.
4 Wore white jeans at her Mexican wedding to John Derek.
5 Two sisters, Carol and Kathy.
6 Drove Ursula Andress to the hospital on the day she gave birth to hers and Harry Hamlin’s son Dimitri Hamlin.
7 Has lived in Lakewood, Washington since the early 1990s.
8 Daughter of professional dancers Alba (1904-1958) and Arlene Evanstad (1917-1969). Both of her parents died from cancer in their early 50s.
9 Was approached by David Jacobs to star on Dallas (1978), when she was under contract with Lorimar.
10 Knew John Forsythe when she was 18 years old and was friends with him until his death in 2010.
11 Lived with George Santo Pietro (1981-1984).
12 Her first acting mentor and former series’ lead, Barbara Stanwyck, died on January 20, 1990, at age 82.
13 Her second acting mentor and former series’ lead, John Forsythe, died on April 2, 2010, at age 92.
14 She was one of the guests at the wedding of Prince Charles and Camilla Parker-Bowles.
15 After her role in the drama film The Stepsister (1997), she retired from acting at age 54.
16 Friends with Heather Locklear, Joan Collins, Robert Fuller, Lee Majors, Larry Manetti and Ursula Andress. Cordial with Bo Derek.
17 Her acting mentors were the late John Forsythe and the late Barbara Stanwyck.
18 She was awarded a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6834 Hollywood Boulevard in Hollywood, California on August 20, 1987.
19 Her singing vocals in Beach Blanket Bingo (1965) was dubbed by Jackie Ward (known at the time as Robin Ward), who was one of the most popular studio singers of the 1960s-1970s.
20 Barbara Stanwyck, her television mother on The Big Valley (1965), always called her “Audra” after her character Audra Barkley, even after the series ended. She claims she learned much about acting from Stanwyck.
21 Former Miss Golden Globe.
22 In 2009, she won the fourth series of the British reality television series Hell’s Kitchen (2004).
23 Regularly listed as one of the most beautiful women in America, she appeared in Playboy magazine at the behest of then-husband John Derek in 1971. Those photos were published a second time in 1982 when she was turning forty.
24 In 2006, Evans reunited with her Dynasty (1981) castmates for the non-fiction reunion special Dynasty Reunion: Catfights & Caviar (2006).
25 Due to her character’s name on Dynasty (1981), she starred in an ad campaign for Crystal Light beverages, starting in 1984.
26 In 1959, she was voted an “Honorary Colonel” at the Hollywood Legion Post 43 on a gala night that featured upcoming female stars. Another girl in the group that same night was Barbara Parkins.
27 Had nine-year relationship with Yanni (1989-1998).
28 Joan Rivers once said that Linda Evans “is one of the only people in the business I’ve never heard anything negative about”.
29 Ex-stepmother of Sean Catherine Derek, who describes Linda as her best friend.
30 Her real last name, Evanstad, is of Norwegian origin.
31 As a teenager, she guest starred in a 1960 episode of Bachelor Father: A Crush on Bentley (1960) as a girl who develops a crush on John Forsythe’s character. Some twenty years later, she co-starred on the television series Dynasty (1981) as John Forsythe’s wife.
32 Partner of Linda Evans Fitness Centers (15 locations) which eventually closed after she left the partnership in 2004 and began working with another fitness chain.
33 Engaged to Patrick Curtis (1960-1962).
34 Attended Hollywood High School with Stefanie Powers.

Actress

Title Year Status Character
The Stepsister 1997 TV Movie Joan Curtis Shaw Canfield
Dazzle 1995 TV Movie Sylvie Norberg Kilkullen
The Gambler Returns: The Luck of the Draw 1991 TV Movie Kate Muldoon
Dynasty: The Reunion 1991 TV Series Krystle Carrington
She’ll Take Romance 1990 TV Movie Jane McMillan
Dynasty 1981-1989 TV Series Krystle Carrington Rita Lesley
The Last Frontier 1986 TV Movie Kate Hannon
North and South, Book II 1986 TV Mini-Series Rose Sinclair
Glitter 1984 TV Series Linda Evans
Kenny Rogers as The Gambler: The Adventure Continues 1983 TV Movie Kate Muldoon
The Love Boat 1981-1983 TV Series Barbara Fields / Monica Brandon / Jessica
Bare Essence 1982 TV Movie Bobbi Rowan
Tom Horn 1980 Glendolene Kimmel
Avalanche Express 1979 Elsa Lang
Standing Tall 1978 TV Movie Jill Shasta
Nowhere to Run 1978 TV Movie Amy Kessler
Hunter 1976-1977 TV Series Marty Shaw
The Rockford Files 1975 TV Series Audrey Wyatt / Claire Prescott
Mitchell 1975 Greta
McCoy 1975 TV Series
The Big Rip-Off 1975 TV Movie
McMillan & Wife 1975 TV Series Nicole Avery
Klansman 1974 Nancy Poteet
Harry O 1974 TV Series Marian Sawyer
Nakia 1974 TV Series Samantha Lowell
Mannix 1974 TV Series Lorna Wilder
Banacek 1974 TV Series Cherry Saint-Saëns
McCloud 1973 TV Series Geri March
Female Artillery 1973 TV Movie Charlotte Paxton
Childish Things 1969 Pat Jennings
The Big Valley 1965-1969 TV Series Audra Barkley
My Favorite Martian 1965 TV Series Sally Farrow
Beach Blanket Bingo 1965 Sugar Kane
Wagon Train 1965 TV Series Martha Temple
Those Calloways 1965 Bridie Mellott
Dr. Kildare 1964 TV Series Student Nurse #1
Twilight of Honor 1963 Alice Clinton
The Lieutenant 1963 TV Series Nan Hiland
The Eleventh Hour 1963 TV Series Joan Clayton
Buttons and Her Beaus 1962 TV Movie Buttons
The Untouchables 1962 TV Series Gert Littlesmith
Outlaws 1962 TV Series Wilma Neely
The Adventures of Ozzie & Harriet 1960-1962 TV Series Linda / Shirley / Sally / …
Bachelor Father 1960 TV Series Liz McGavin

Soundtrack

Title Year Status Character
Beach Blanket Bingo 1965 performer: “He’s My New Love”, “He’s My Fly Boy” – uncredited

Self

Title Year Status Character
Boulevard Bio 1993 TV Series Herself
Wetten, dass..? 1992 TV Series Herself
Live with Kelly and Michael 1989-1990 TV Series Herself
Bob Hope’s Birthday Spectacular in Paris 1989 TV Special Herself
The Princess Grace Foundation Special Gala Tribute to Cary Grant 1988 TV Movie Herself
AFI Life Achievement Award: A Tribute to Barbara Stanwyck 1987 TV Special documentary Herself
The Annual Entertainment Industry Honors Presentes a Salute to Bud Grant 1987 TV Movie Herself
Hour Magazine 1983-1987 TV Series Herself
The 16th Annual Shelby Awards 1986 TV Special Herself
The 38th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards 1986 TV Special Herself – Presenter: Outstanding Drama / Comedy Special
AFI Life Achievement Award: A Tribute to Billy Wilder 1986 TV Special documentary Herself
The 12th Annual People’s Choice Awards 1986 TV Special Herself – Winner: Favourite Female Television Performer and Accepting Television Dramatic Program
The 43rd Annual Golden Globe Awards 1986 TV Special Herself – Nominee: Best Actress in a TV-Series Drama
The 11th Annual People’s Choice Awards 1985 TV Special Herself – Winner: Favourite Female Television Performer and Accepting Award for Favourite Television Dramatic Program
All-Star Party for ‘Dutch’ Reagan 1985 TV Special Herself
The 37th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards 1985 TV Special Herself – Presenter: Outstanding Drama / Comedy Special
The ABC All-Star Spectacular 1985 TV Movie Herself – Actress
exclusiv 1985 TV Series documentary Herself
Night of 100 Stars II 1985 TV Movie Herself
The 42nd Annual Golden Globe Awards 1985 TV Special Herself – Nominee: Best Actress in a TV-Series Drama
The 36th Primetime Emmy Awards 1984 TV Special Herself – Co-Presenter: Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Limited Series or a Special and Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Limited Series or a Special
The Love Boat 1984 TV Series Herself
AFI Life Achievement Award: A Tribute to Lillian Gish 1984 TV Special documentary Herself (uncredited)
The 10th Annual People’s Choice Awards 1984 TV Special Herself – Winner: Favourite Female Television Performer and Accepting Award from Favourite TV Dramatic Program
The 41st Annual Golden Globe Awards 1984 TV Special Herself – Nominee: Best Actress in a TV-Series Drama
The 35th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards 1983 TV Special Herself – Nominated: Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series & Presenter: Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Limited Series or a Special and Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Limited Series or a Special
AFI Life Achievement Award: A Tribute to John Huston 1983 TV Special Herself – (uncredit)
The 9th Annual People’s Choice Awards 1983 TV Special Herself – Winner: Favourite Female Television Performer
The 40th Annual Golden Globe Awards 1983 TV Special Herself – Nominee: Best Actress in a TV-Series Drama
George Burns and Other Sex Symbols 1982 TV Special Linda Evans
Star-Studded Spoof of the New TV Season, G-Rated, with Glamour, Glitter and Gags 1982 TV Special Herself
The 34th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards 1982 TV Special Herself – Presenter
The 8th Annual People’s Choice Awards 1982 TV Special Herself – Winner: Favourite Female Performer in New TV Series
Night of 100 Stars 1982 TV Special Herself
Women I Love: Beautiful But Funny 1982 TV Movie Herself
The 39th Annual Golden Globe Awards 1982 TV Special documentary Winner
Magic with the Stars 1982 TV Movie Herself
The 7th Los Angeles Film Critics Awards 1982 TV Special Herself
Circus of the Stars #6 1981 TV Special Herself – Ringmaster
The Fall Guy 1981 TV Series Herself
Bob Hope’s All-Star Comedy Look at the Fall Season: It’s Still Free and Worth It! 1981 TV Special
The 33rd Annual Primetime Emmy Awards 1981 TV Special Herself – Performer
Battle of the Network Stars X 1981 TV Special Herself – ABC Team
Dinah! 1980 TV Series Herself
The Mike Douglas Show 1979 TV Series Herself – Actress
The New Steve Allen Show 1963 TV Series Herself
Home & Family 2016 TV Series Herself
The ’80s: The Decade That Made Us 2013 TV Mini-Series documentary Herself
Fox and Friends 2013 TV Series Herself
Pioneers of Television 2011-2013 TV Mini-Series documentary Herself / Audra Barkley from the Big Valley
Fashion News Live 2012 TV Series Herself
The Wendy Williams Show 2011 TV Series Herself – Guest
The Nate Berkus Show 2011 TV Series Herself
Rachael Ray 2011 TV Series Herself
The Oprah Winfrey Show 2010 TV Series Herself
This Morning 2009 TV Series Herself
Hell’s Kitchen 2009 TV Series Herself – Contestant
Caiga quien caiga 2007 TV Series Herself
Gylne tider 2006-2007 TV Series documentary Herself
The British Soap Awards 2006 2006 TV Special Herself – Presenter
The British Soap Awards 2006: The Party 2006 TV Special Herself
Dynasty Reunion: Catfights & Caviar 2006 TV Movie Herself / Krystle Carrington
Entertainment Tonight 2006 TV Series Herself
Larry King Live 2004 TV Series Herself
The 30th Annual People’s Choice Awards 2004 TV Special Herself
Intimate Portrait 2000-2003 TV Series documentary Herself
E! True Hollywood Story 2001 TV Series documentary Herself
All-Star Party for Aaron Spelling 1998 TV Special Herself
The Rosie O’Donnell Show 1997 TV Series Herself
¿Qué apostamos? 1995 TV Series Herself
The 1993 World Music Awards 1993 TV Special Herself – Presenter

Archive Footage

Title Year Status Character
Entertainment Tonight 2016 TV Series Herself
Tellement Gay! Homosexualité et pop culture 2015 TV Mini-Series documentary Krystle Carrington
The Dark, Krystle 2013 Short Krystle
The Found Footage Show 2010 TV Series Herself (2010)
House of Boys 2009 Krystle Carrington (uncredited)
La tele de tu vida 2007 TV Series Krystle Carrington
Retrosexual: The 80’s 2004 TV Mini-Series documentary
When Shoulderpads Ruled the World 2002 TV Special Krystle Carrington
John Wayne: On Board with the Duke 1997 Video documentary Herself
Derrick contre Superman 1992 TV Short Greluche
Dynasty 1988 TV Series Krystle Carrington
Our Time 1985 TV Series Herself
Walt Disney’s Wonderful World of Color 1969 TV Series Bridie Mellott

Won Awards

Year Award Ceremony Nomination Movie
1987 Star on the Walk of Fame Walk of Fame Television On 20 August 1987. At 6834 Hollywood Blvd.
1986 People’s Choice Award People’s Choice Awards, USA Favorite Female TV Performer
1985 People’s Choice Award People’s Choice Awards, USA Favorite Female TV Performer Tied with Joan Collins
1985 Soap Opera Digest Award Soap Opera Digest Awards Outstanding Actress in a Prime Time Serial Dynasty (1981)
1984 People’s Choice Award People’s Choice Awards, USA Favorite Female TV Performer
1984 Soap Opera Digest Award Soap Opera Digest Awards Outstanding Actress in a Prime Time Soap Opera Dynasty (1981)
1983 People’s Choice Award People’s Choice Awards, USA Favorite Female TV Performer Tied with Loretta Swit
1982 Golden Globe Golden Globes, USA Best Performance by an Actress in a Television Series – Drama Dynasty (1981)
1982 People’s Choice Award People’s Choice Awards, USA Favorite Female Performer in a New TV Program
1964 Miss Golden Globe Golden Globes, USA

Nominated Awards

Year Award Ceremony Nomination Movie
1988 Soap Opera Digest Award Soap Opera Digest Awards Favorite Super Couple: Prime Time Dynasty (1981)
1986 Golden Globe Golden Globes, USA Best Performance by an Actress in a Television Series – Drama Dynasty (1981)
1986 Soap Opera Digest Award Soap Opera Digest Awards Favorite Super Couple on a Prime Time Serial Dynasty (1981)
1985 Golden Globe Golden Globes, USA Best Performance by an Actress in a Television Series – Drama Dynasty (1981)
1984 Golden Globe Golden Globes, USA Best Performance by an Actress in a Television Series – Drama Dynasty (1981)
1983 Golden Globe Golden Globes, USA Best Performance by an Actress in a Television Series – Drama Dynasty (1981)
1983 Primetime Emmy Primetime Emmy Awards Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series Dynasty (1981)
1966 Gold Medal Photoplay Awards Most Promising New Star (Female)

2nd Place Awards

Year Award Ceremony Nomination Movie
1983 Bravo Otto Germany Bravo Otto Best Female TV Star (TV-Star w)

3rd Place Awards

Year Award Ceremony Nomination Movie
1970 Bravo Otto Germany Bravo Otto Best Female TV Star (TV-Star w)

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