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Crystal Bernard

Bernard at the 1991 Emmy Awards.
BornSeptember 30 1961 (1961--) (age 46)
Garland, Texas
Died


Crystal Bernard (born September 30, 1961) is an American actress and singer, most widely known for her seven-year-long role on the situation comedy Wings.

Early life

Bernard was born in Garland, Texas. She became an amateur entertainer at a young age, singing gospel songs with her older sister Robyn Bernard. One recording of the two that has survived from those years is a song called "The Monkey Song" (an objection to evolution) on ''Feuding' Fussin' and Frettin'[1], a recording of a 1972 Thomas Road Baptist Church service led by Jerry Falwell.

Bernard developed her acting and performing abilities at Alley Theatre while growing up in Houston, Texas. She continued her education at Baylor University where she studied acting and international relations.[2]

Career

Television

She got her start in primetime television on the long-running sitcom Happy Days, playing K.C. Cunningham during the show's penultimate season. After various guest appearances on television, she joined the cast of the resurrected syndicated version of the sitcom It's a Living. But she is best known for her role as strong-willed airport lunch-counter operator Helen Chappel Hackett on the sitcom Wings, a role she played for the show's duration (1990-1997).

Film

Early in her film career she appeared in Young Doctors in Love. She starred in the Roger Corman-produced direct-to-video film Slumber Party Massacre 2.

During the 21st century, her work includes a role in the Independent Spirit Award-winning film Jackpot and a starring role in a religious family film called Welcome to Paradise.

Theatre

Bernard has appeared several times in major stage productions since the end of Wings:

Music

In addition to acting, Bernard has a music career as a singer-songwriter. Albums include The Girl Next Door (1996) and Don't Touch Me There (1999). The latter includes a gospel track she recorded with her father, and one sung with country artist Billy Dean.

Bernard did a duet with Peter Cetera called "(I Wanna Take) Forever Tonight", released on Cetera's One Clear Voice album.

References

1. ^ Playlist for Mark Allen - June 16, 2005, a playlist for a WFMU show featuring "The Monkey Song"
2. ^ Bernard's Biography from the All Movie Guide via The New York Times website
3. ^ Replacements and additions to the 1999 Annie Get Your Gun revival from the Internet Broadway Database
4. ^ Falcon Theatre presents Barbra's Wedding from the Falcon Theatre website

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Outstanding Drama Series

All My Children

As the World Turns

Guiding Light

The Young and the Restless

Outstanding Lead Actor

Peter Bergman (Jack Abbott, The Young and the Restless)
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Wings is an American sitcom that ran on NBC from April 19, 1990 to May 14, 1997. The show starred Timothy Daly and Steven Weber as brothers Joe and Brian Hackett. The show was set at the fictional Tom Nevers Field, a small airport on the island of Nantucket, Massachusetts,
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Garland, Texas
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Jerry Lamon Falwell, Sr. (August 11 1933 – May 15, 2007)[1] was an American fundamentalist Christian pastor and televangelist. He was the founding pastor of the Thomas Road Baptist Church in Lynchburg, Virginia.
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The Alley Theatre is an indoor theatre in the city of Houston, Texas, and hosts two stages. The main stage has 824 seats and is called the "Hubbard"; the more intimate, 310-seat stage, is the "Neuhaus." Nine towers and open-air terraces give the Alley Theatre a castle-like quality.
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Happy Days was an American television sitcom that originally aired between 1974 and 1984 on the ABC television network. The show presents an idealized vision of American life in the 1950s and early 1960s America.
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It's a Living was the name of a sitcom which aired on American television from 1980 to 1982 and from 1985 to 1989. The show first aired on ABC and was later moved to syndication.
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Wings is an American sitcom that ran on NBC from April 19, 1990 to May 14, 1997. The show starred Timothy Daly and Steven Weber as brothers Joe and Brian Hackett. The show was set at the fictional Tom Nevers Field, a small airport on the island of Nantucket, Massachusetts,
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Slumber Party Massacre 2 is the 1987 sequel to Slumber Party Massacre. It was directed by Deborah Brock and by Don Daniel

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