Betty Buckley

Betty Lynn Buckley (born July 3, 1947) is a Tony Award-winning American theater, film, and television actress and singer. Betty Lynn Buckley was born in Big Spring, Texas and raised in Fort Worth, the daughter of Betty Bob (née Diltz), a dancer and journalist, and Ernest Lynn Buckley, a retired lieutenant colonel in the U.S. Air Force and former dean of engineering at the University of Texas at Arlington and South Dakota State University. She is ... more

Betty Lynn Buckley (born July 3, 1947) is a Tony Award-winning American theater, film, and television actress and singer. Betty Lynn Buckley was born in Big Spring, Texas and raised in Fort Worth, the daughter of Betty Bob (née Diltz), a dancer and journalist, and Ernest Lynn Buckley, a retired lieutenant colonel in the U.S. Air Force and former dean of engineering at the University of Texas at Arlington and South Dakota State University. She is the eldest of their four children. She has three brothers — Norman Buckley is a film editor and TV director. While a student at Texas Christian University (TCU), she was crowned "Miss Fort Worth" in 1966 and was runner-up in the Miss Texas competition. Buckley was then invited to perform at the Miss America pageant in Atlantic City, and it was there that she was spotted by a talent scout. After returning to T.C.U. to earn her college degree, she toured Asia to visit soldiers wounded in the Vietnam War. After this, she worked for a time as a... less