Linda Evans Bio
Linda Evans is an American-born actress. She was born as Linda Evenstad on November 18, 1942 in Hartford, Connecticut, United States. Her zodiac sign is scorpio.
In July 1971, Linda Evans brought her signature glamour and star appeal to Playboy.
Linda Evans has beautiful natural breasts, sparkling blue eyes, and luminous blond hair. With a sensually shaped 34-26-38 frame, she's a true embodiment of Playboy allure.
Linda Evans first appeared in Playboy’s May 1971 issue in “Power Play,” a pictorial photographed by her then-husband, actor and filmmaker John Derek. At the time, she was already familiar to television audiences through The Big Valley, but the photographs presented a softer, more intimate image than the Western series allowed. More than a decade later, as Dynasty transformed her into one of television’s biggest stars, Playboy revisited the session in its January 1982 issue alongside photographs of Derek’s other celebrated muses, Ursula Andress and Bo Derek.
Evans began acting in television during the early 1960s, appearing in programmes such as Bachelor Father, The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet and Wagon Train. Her first major continuing role came as Audra Barkley on The Big Valley, where she played the spirited daughter of Barbara Stanwyck’s formidable frontier matriarch. The series established Evans as a graceful and approachable screen presence, while her later guest appearances across detective dramas and Westerns demonstrated a professional durability that carried her through the following decade.
Her 1971 Playboy appearance was closely tied to her marriage to John Derek, who had already photographed Ursula Andress and would later create some of Playboy’s most famous images of Bo Derek. Evans has explained that she agreed to the session partly to help finance one of her husband’s film projects. The resulting photographs reflected Derek’s preference for natural settings and understated sensuality, presenting Evans with warmth rather than elaborate studio glamour. Their later republication gave the images a new meaning: the young Western actress had become the serene blonde centre of prime-time television’s most extravagant drama.
That transformation came with Dynasty and the role of Krystle Carrington, the compassionate wife of oil magnate Blake Carrington. Evans gave the programme its emotional balance, creating a heroine whose decency never prevented her from confronting the ruthless Alexis Colby. Her performance earned Golden Globe and People’s Choice recognition, while Dynasty became America’s highest-rated television series during the 1984–85 season. Evans remained with the show through most of its original run and received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for her contribution to television.
Linda Evans’s Playboy history captures two strikingly different moments in the same career. The original photographs showed a rising actress sharing her husband’s artistic vision; their return in 1982 encountered a woman whose fame had eclipsed the circumstances in which they were created. Yet the essential quality remained unchanged. Whether dressed for the Barkley ranch, the Carrington mansion or John Derek’s camera, Evans projected warmth, composure and a quiet confidence that made glamour appear less like a performance than a natural extension of her presence.
