Betty Buckley

Actress and star of American stage and screen Betty Lynn Buckley was also a singer who was active from 1969 and continues to be so today. It was ABC show Eight is Enough that found her shoot to stardom between 1977 and 1981. In 1983 she then won a Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Musical for her part of Grizabella in Broadway show Cats. She has also had key parts in Sunset Boulevard as Norma Desmond in London as well as New York and this won her a nomination for an Olivier Award. In 2012, she was recognised as a wife long star of the stage and inducted into the American Theatre Hall of Fame.
Buckley was born in Texas and raised in Fort Worth and is the oldest of four siblings. She was a star from the off, winning Miss Fort Worth in 1966 and coming runner u pin Miss Texas. After being spotted by a scout at a later event she toured Asia visiting soldiers in the Vietnam War and also worked as a reporter, before moving to New York and landing a lead in Martha Jefferson on her first day in the city. Having been called “The Voice of Broadway” by New York magazine she is a true leader in her field and also recorded 16 albums and performed live across the US. She continues to do so today and put out her last album in 2014. Nowadays Betty Lynn Buckley takes part in NCHA cutting horse competitions and still appears in many films and theatre shows.