Catherine Bach

About

Catherine Bach (born Catherine Bachman; March 1, 1955) is an American actress. She is known for playing Daisy Duke in the television series The Dukes of Hazzard and Margo Dutton in African Skies. In 2012, she joined the cast of the CBS soap opera The Young and the Restless as Anita Lawson.

Bach was born in Warren, Ohio, the daughter of Norma Jean Kucera (née Verdugo), an acupuncturist, and Bernard P. Bachman, a rancher. Her mother was a daughter of Antonio L. Verdugo, of Bisbee, Arizona, a baker born in Mexico, while her father was of German ancestry. She was raised in Warren, Ohio. Her mother, born into the Verdugo family, claimed to be descended from one of oldest Californio families.
She spent some of her childhood on a ranch in South Dakota, when she visited her grandparents in Faith, South Dakota. In 1970, Bach graduated from
Stevens High School in Rapid City, South Dakota. She briefly majored in drama at UCLA, where she supplemented her income by making clothes for friends and theater groups.

Bach’s professional debut was as one of the children in a production of The Sound of Music. Bach’s first screen appearance was in the Burt Lancaster murder…