Lynda Carter

They were divorced in 1982. The second marriage was to lawyer Robert Altman on January 29, 1984. The couple broke up soon after the children's birth and have battled over their custody ever since. Her first was to her former agent, Hollywood producer and manager Ron Samuels on May 28, 1977. They are the parents of twins Olivia and Anton, who were born in 2001. She has been married twice. In 1997, D'Angelo became involved with the actor Al Pacino. Her other credits include the title role in a 1983 biopic of Rita Hayworth and a variety of television specials. Later she began a relationship with Anton Furst, an Academy award-winning production designer, who committed suicide in 1991 after they broke up.

However, her acting career did not take off until 1975, when she landed her starring role in the Wonder Woman television series of the 1970s. From 1985 until 1991, D'Angelo, still married to the duke, lived with director and novelist Neil Jordan. After some acting classes at several New York Acting schools she began making guest appearances on Tv shows such as Starsky and Hutch, Cos and Nakia. The duke married, as his second wife, Valentina Bonomo, and now has one child, Francesco (born 2000). It was her height at 5' 9" and beauty which lead her to enter a local beauty contest and she first achieved national fame when she won the title of Miss World USA in 1972, representing her home state of Arizona. Separated in 1983, the Duke and Duchess Salviati finally divorced in 1995. As a singer she toured with several rock groups before returning to Arizona in 1972. After the end of her romance with director Milos Forman, in 1981, D'Angelo married Lorenzo Salviati, an economics student who also was an Italian duke (1957-); half-Polish, he is a descendant of Lorenzo di Medici.

However she decided to take up music and singing and was voted the most talented Student and decided to leave Arizona State University to pursue a career in music. Her role as Ellen Griswold was reprised in three Vacation sequels from 1985 through 1997. During her childhood she grew up as an avid reader of the Wonder woman comic books and usually imitated the idealism of a strong female character.She went to the Arcadia-itans High School in Phoenix where she found it difficult to be tall. Her biggest break came with Chevy Chase in the 1983 National Lampoon film Vacation. Lynda Carter (born Lynda Jean Cordoba Carter on 24 July 1951 in Phoenix, Arizona) is an American actress. She is a singer and actress. After gaining minor roles in movies including Annie Hall, D'Angelo had a string of hit movies in the late 1970s, appearing in Every Which Way but Loose, Hair, and Coal Miner's Daughter (she portrayed the singer Patsy Cline). Beverly D'Angelo was born in Columbus, Ohio on November 15, 1951.