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Catherine Bach is a Hollywood actress best known for portraying Daisy Duke in the television series. The Dukes of Hazzard and Margo Dutton on Canadian TV series, African Sky aired on The Family Channel from 1991 to 1994. Bach joined the cast of Anita Lawson’s The Young and the Restless (CBS Soap) in 2012. During her three decades in the industry, Bach starred in more than thirty television and star-studded films. In her youth, the beautiful actress insured her slender legs for a million dollars. Below is everything you need to know about Catherine Bach, including where she is and what she is currently doing.

Catherine Bach Bio & Age

Bach was born in Warren, Ohio on March 1, 1954 to Norma Jean Kucera and Bernard Bachman as Catherine Bachman. Her father is a breeder and her mother an acupuncturist. Although her father is of German descent and her mother is of Mexican descent, Catherine is descended from one of the oldest landed families in California, the Verdugo family.

She grew up on a ranch in South Dakota with her grandparents. She attended Stevens High School, Rapid City, South Dakota. She graduated in 1970 and then went to UCLA where she earned an arts degree. As a student, Bach earned extra income by making clothes for theater groups and friends.

Career

Catherine began her acting career playing one of the children in a production of The Sound of Music. Her first screen appearance was in Burt Lancaster’s 1973 mystery film The Midnight Man as Natalie Claiburn. Her next role came the next year in the crime film Thunderbolt and Lightfoot, where she played Melody.

Bach first heard about the audition for The Dukes of Hazzard from her husband; Although not close to what the producers were looking for (a Dolly Parton look-alike), she was nevertheless hired and she delivered the character of Daisy Duke perfectly. James Best, John Schneider and Tom Wopat were on the show.

She posed as Daisy Duke for a poster suggested by the producers of The Dukes of Hazzard which sold five million copies earning extra revenue. She modeled for the California Schooner back in 1985. Before that, Catherine Bach insured her legs for a million dollars.

When the series ended, she starred in other feature films, including Canadian drama series. African skies like Margo Dutton. She starred in Monk in 2006 and made a cameo appearance in the comedy film. You Again in 2010. Bach joined the cast of Anita Lawson’s The Young and the Restless (CBS Soap) in 2012.

His net worth

Bach’s net worth is currently estimated at $6 million; income from her acting career and her Diamond Jewelery business, a line she started at Debenhams in 2002.

husband, daughters

Catherine Bach was married twice; his firstIt was in 1976 to Angela Lansbury’s stepson, David Shaw. The marriage ended five years later and they had no children together. She remarried in 1990 to Peter Lopez (entertainment lawyer) with whom she has two daughters – Sophia and Laura.

In April 2010, her husband committed suicide by shooting himself, he was sixty years old at the time. Catherine would later reveal that police believed she was the victim following a gun eviction from their home in San Fernando, California. According to her, someone was harassing her at the time and the police believed that the person had caught up to her and that the shot fired was for her.

She told Entertainment Tonight that Peter’s suicide was a shock because no one knows what happened. she added that they had been happy together and there were no signs that he was depressed or planning to kill himself.

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Where is she now?

After this tragic incident, the actress managed to spend her life with her two daughters. Two years after Peter’s death, she was seen on the beach in Hawaii with her daughters on a family vacation. She is still very active in the industry and has presented some minor productions.

The eighties pinup isn’t as slim as she used to be anymore as she’s added a pound of flesh and looks much fuller. Responding to people’s body shocking her for her new height, she told People magazine in an interview, “I put on a little weight, but what? I was not diet skinny; I was an athlete” and clearly she is no longer paying close attention to her exercise regimen as she once did.

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