Mary Crosby

Mary Crosby was born in Los Angeles, the daughter of Bing Crosby and Kathryn Grant. She received her Actor's Equity card at the age of four and made her first professional appearances, along with her siblings, on her father's popular Christmas-season TV specials of the '60s and '70s. After graduating from high school at age 15, she entered the University of Texas at Austin where she became a member of the Delta Delta Delta sorority. She may be best-known for her role as "Kristin Shepard" on the evening television soap opera, Dallas (1978). Her feature film credits include Henry Jaglom's Eating (1990), The Ice Pirates (1984), Tapeheads (1988), The Legend of Zorro (2005) and more recently, Jaglom's Queen of the Lot (2010), in which she played Peter Bogdanovich's wife. She followed that with Just 45 Minutes from Broadway (2012) and, most recently, The M Word (2014). She has several stage credits to her name, including "The Seagull" ( Nina), "As You Like It", "Two Gentleman of Verona" and "Romeo and Juliet". Her many television credits include the ABC miniseries, Hollywood Wives (1985), North & South: Book 2, Love & War (1986) and Stagecoach (1986), with Willie Nelson and Johnny Cash. She resides on a ranch outside Los Angeles with her family, husband Mark Brodka and their two sons.