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Was a photo model at age 11.

Performed summer stock in New England during her teen years. Her older sister Ann Crowley was also an actress and musical performer.

In December of 2005 she and her husband Andy Friendly were among the passengers on a Los Angeles-to-Honolulu flight in which a 37-year-old Mexican passenger began acting erratically and threatening other passengers. He had to be restrained with plastic handcuffs. Andy was one of the passengers who helped restrain him.

Played John Bennett Perry's wife in both Friends (1994) and The Closer (2005).

Met her future husband, Ed Hookstratten, who was appearing on the Los Angeles stage in "Kiss Me, Kate", while she was filming Hollywood or Bust (1956).

Daughter of Helen and Vincent Crowley, a mine foreman.

Her father, Vincent Crowley, died at age 58 of a heart attack in New York on January 22, 1961.

In a career that spanned more than 50 years, her first husband, Ed Hookstratten, was a powerful and iconic force in show business, with clients including Elvis Presley, Dan Rowan & Dick Martin, Joey Bishop and Johnny Carson (he replaced Henry Bushkin at Carson Productions); major news personalities like Bryant Gumbel, Tom Brokaw, Tom Snyder and Jessica Savitch; and Vin Scully, Dick Enberg, Phyllis George, Merlin Olsen, Harry Kalas, Dick Stockton, Pat Haden, Marcus Allen and Don Meredith from the world of sports.

1953 Deb Star.

Younger sister of singer/actress Ann Crowley.

Mother, with Ed Hookstratten, of son Jon Hookstratten (born on May 5, 1958) and daughter Ann Hookstratten Osher (born on December 21, 1960).