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Catherine Oxenberg (born September 22, 1961) is an American actress, best
known for her performance as Amanda Carrington on Dynasty and as a socialite
of royal ancestry.
She was born in New York City, the eldest daughter of Howard Oxenberg (a
Jewish-American dress manufacturer and close friend of the Kennedy family)
and of his first wife H.R.H. Princess Elizabeth of Yugoslavia. Her maternal
grandmother was Princess Olga of Greece and Denmark, a legendary beauty and
the sister of Princess Marina, who married the Duke of Kent (uncle of Queen
Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom), and also a first cousin of the Duke of
Edinburgh (husband of Queen Elizabeth II).
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Known as Kitty to her family, she was educated at St. Paul's School and
Harvard.
Oxenberg dated John Kerry in 1989 after his first marriage ended and before
he married Teresa Heinz Kerry. Her first marriage was to the producer Robert
Evans, in Beverly Hills, California on July 12, 1998, but the marriage was
annulled nine days later. She then married in Las Vegas on May 8, 1999, the
actor Casper Van Dien who had divorced the granddaughter of the late actor
Robert Mitchum. She now has a primetime tv show, "I Married A Princess" on
the Lifetime Television channel.
Oxenberg was portrayed by Rachael Taylor in the 2005 telemovie Dynasty: The
Making of a Guilty Pleasure, about the Behind the scenes goings on during
the production of Dynasty
She is the mother of India Riven Oxenberg, (b. 7th June, 1991), whose father
has never been publicly identified, and of two children with Van Dien: Maya
(b. September 20, 2001) and Celeste Alma (b. October 3, 2003). |
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