Mary Frances Crosby (born September 14, 1959) is an American actress.
She played Kristin Shepard in the television series Dallas
(1979â€"1981, 1991).Crosby was born in Los Angeles, California, the
only daughter of singer and actor Bing Crosby from his second marriage
to actress Kathryn Grant. She graduated from high school at 15, after
which she entered the University of Texas at Austin, where she was a
member of Delta Delta Delta sorority, though she never graduated. She
is fluent in Spanish. She was married to Eb Lottimer from 1978 to 1989
and, since 1998, has been married to Mark Brodka, with whom she has
two children.[citation needed]Crosby played Kristin Shepard (Sue Ellen
Ewing's scheming sister) on the prime time soap opera Dallas from
1979â€"81, and a further guest appearance in 1991. Her character is
perhaps best remembered for her part in the cliffhanger ending of the
1979â€"1980 season of Dallas, titled "A House Divided", which was
resolved in the fourth episode of the following season, "Who Done It".
In that highly watched episode, J.R. Ewing (Larry Hagman) was shot by
an unknown assailant. Viewers had to wait all summer (and most of the
fall due to a Hollywood actors' strike) to learn whether J.R. would
survive, and which of his many enemies was responsible. In the summer
of 1980, the question, "Who shot J.R.?", was being asked in everyday
conversations around the world.Ultimately, Kristin Shepard was
revealed to have been the person who pulled the trigger in the classic
episode, which aired on November 21, 1980. It was one of the
highest-rated episodes of a TV show ever aired. Her character, Kristin
Shepard, later made an appearance on the Dallas spin-off series Knots
Landing in 1980, before a brief return to Dallas in 1981. Once again
the focus of a highly rated cliffhanger, it was revealed in the season
opening episode (October 9, 1981) that it was Kristin's body floating
in the Southfork Ranch swimming pool. She returned for the final
episode of Dallas in 1991, playing the same character in a vision
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