20 Facts About Catherine Oxenberg

Catherine Oxenberg was born on September 22,1961 and is an American actress.

Catherine Oxenberg is best known for her role as Amanda Carrington on the 1980s prime time soap opera Dynasty.

Catherine Oxenberg twice played Diana, Princess of Wales on screen, in The Royal Romance of Charles and Diana and Charles and Diana: Unhappily Ever After and has appeared in many other films.

Catherine Oxenberg was born in New York City, and grew up in London.

Catherine Oxenberg is the eldest daughter of Princess Elizabeth of Yugoslavia was born on 1936 and and her first husband Howard Oxenberg, a Jewish dress manufacturer and close friend of the Kennedy family.

Catherine Oxenberg was educated at the Lycee Francais Charles de Gaulle in Kensington, London, St Paul's School, and Columbia University, though she did not finish college.

Catherine Oxenberg made her acting debut in the 1982 made-for-television film The Royal Romance of Charles and Diana, in which she played Diana, Princess of Wales.

Catherine Oxenberg left Dynasty in 1986, following a salary dispute after the end of her second season, and the role was recast with Karen Cellini.

Catherine Oxenberg was the guest host on the May 10,1986, episode of Saturday Night Live, making her the only descendant of a royal family to host the show.

Catherine Oxenberg starred as Princess Elysa in the 1987 television film Roman Holiday.

Catherine Oxenberg appeared in The Lair of the White Worm in 1988, and reprised the role of Diana, Princess of Wales in the TV film Charles and Diana: Unhappily Ever After in 1992.

Catherine Oxenberg was portrayed by Rachael Taylor in the 2005 telemovie Dynasty: The Making of a Guilty Pleasure, a fictionalized retelling of the behind-the-scenes goings-on during the production of Dynasty.

In 2019, Catherine Oxenberg produced and narrated Escaping the NXIVM Cult: A Mother's Fight to Save Her Daughter where Andrea Roth portrayed her.

In June 1991, Catherine Oxenberg had a daughter, India Riven Catherine Oxenberg, whose father was later revealed to be the convicted drug smuggler William Weitz Shaffer.

In December 1992, Catherine Oxenberg was living with her daughter in Coldwater Canyon, Los Angeles, California.

Catherine Oxenberg met the actor Casper Van Dien during the filming of the 1999 TV movie The Collectors, and they worked together again the same year in the Evangelical Christian thriller The Omega Code.

Catherine Oxenberg acknowledged, in November 2017, that she had had interactions with Keith Raniere and his NXIVM organization, bringing her daughter India into NXIVM in 2011 for what she thought would be "a self-help, business-oriented program".

Catherine Oxenberg confirmed that her daughter became heavily involved in the cult, and that she had initiated what proved to be a failed intervention for India.

In 2020, Catherine Oxenberg was featured in The Vow, a documentary series for HBO, directed by Jehane Noujaim and Karim Amer, which follows Catherine Oxenberg's attempts to rescue her daughter India.

For playing Amanda Carrington, Catherine Oxenberg won two Soap Opera Digest Awards in 1985, for Outstanding Supporting Actress and Outstanding Female Newcomer.