Victoria Principal was the beautiful Pamela Barnes Ewing on the smash hit Texas oil soap opera Dallas.
The brunette - now 76 years old - worked for nine seasons alongside Larry Hagman, Erin Gray, Patrick Duffy and Charlene Tilton as they bickered over power.
After the show ended in 1987, Principal was not seen as much as she popped up on TV shows like Just Shoot Me! and Family Guy.
The star, who also dated Andy Gibb in the early 1980s, was last in Titans, which focused around a wealthy family living in Hawaii.
The star is also known for being one of the first to launch her own beauty line, called Principal Secret, which made her a fortune before she sold it in 2018. She has also written four books on living healthy.
This month the Hollywood actress made the rare move of posting current photos of herself to Instagram so fans can see what she looks like these days.
The star was born in Fukuoka, Japan and grew up in London, Puerto Rico, Florida, Massachusetts and Georgia, among other places, as her father worked in the military.
During her first year of studies at Miami-Dade Community College, she was seriously injured in a car crash by a drunk driver, causing her to spend months in recovery.
After she healed, she decided to give up college and move to New York City to pursue acting.
In 1971 she moved to Los Angeles to land acting roles.
Her first film role was as Marie Elena opposite Paul Newman in John Huston's 1972 movie The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean.
Next came the 1973 comedy film The Naked Ape, which was co-financed by Playboy editor Hugh Hefner. She appeared nude in the September 1973 issue of Playboy to promote the film.
In 1974, she was cast as Rosa Amici in the blockbuster disaster film Earthquake which was nominated for four Academy Awards.
After that she appeared in the movies I Will, I Will... for Now and Vigilante Force.
Principal retired from acting in the mid 1970s to work as a Hollywood talent agent and booking agent for two years, then she studied law.
She did step back into acting, however, in 1977 with a part on Fantasy Island and the television film The Night They Took Miss Beautiful.
After the show ended in 1987, Principal was not seen as much as she popped up on TV shows like Just Shoot Me! and Family Guy
When she read the script for Dallas, she took to the part of Texan Pamela and urged producers to cast her.
When the show debuted in 1978, it was an instant hit and went on to become the highest-rated television show making her incredibly famous.
She was on the show for nine seasons and left in 1987 because she became dismayed with the quality of the writing on the popular series.
Principal told People in 2018, 'At year seven, it was time for me to renegotiate my contract and I was very candid about my concern and my disappointment, that we had had such good writing and so many wonderful plots, and that when the time came to renegotiate the writers' contracts, I felt that a number of writers had left because they had not gotten the right deal.'
Then she told Entertainment Weekly in 2018, 'The first five years on Dallas were so unbelievably wonderful -- then some key writers departed, and by year seven there was a decline in the writing, which was an enormous part of my decision to leave.
'I informed the producers during renegotiations in the seventh year that I would only stay for two more. They wanted a longer contract, and I said no. I was completely transparent. I learned a lot from playing Pam. She was someone with such innate goodness and who was courageous in fighting for what she believed in. It was really a privilege to play her.'
The star is also known for being one of the first to launch her own beauty line, called Principal Secret, which made her a fortune before she sold it in 2018.
The show ended in 1991 after 14 seasons.
Principal went on to star in various television films, some of which she produced through her production company Victoria Principal Productions; some of the shows were Naked Lie (1989), Blind Witness (1989), and Sparks: The Price of Passion (1990).
In 1994, Principal appeared in an episode of the hit TV sitcom Home Improvement and then she popped up on Just Shoot Me!, Family Guy, Providence, and Tracey Takes On.
She dated Andy Gibb - whose brothers were The Bee Gees - from January 1981 until March 1982. He died in 1988.
In 1998, Principal co-starred in the French comedy Michael Kael vs. the World News Company with Mickey Rooney.
Principal returned to primetime soap-opera television in 2000 with Titans, which co-starred Baywatch favorite Yasmine Bleeth.
In 2001, she gave up acting but in 2004 she joined her old cast mates for Dallas Reunion: The Return to Southfork.
She also had an interesting love life as she dated Andy Gibb whose brothers were in the '60s band turned disco band The Bee Gees.
The pair met on The John Davidson Show in January 1981 and split in March 1982, due to Gibb's escalating drug addiction problems. He died in 1988.
In 1981, Principal appeared on the song All I Have to Do Is Dream with Gibb. The song was Gibb’s last charting single.
Before that she dated actor Anthony Perkins, which was his first heterosexual experience, when they made The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean together in 1972.
This month the Hollywood actress made the rare move of posting current photos of herself to Instagram so fans can see what she looks like these days
Here she is seen tending to some of her goats that she takes care of
She has dedicated her time and talents to her philanthropic work and animal rescue efforts
On Monday she shared that she is enjoying her spring break vacation in nature
Her first marriage was to writer-producer Christopher Skinner, whom she met in 1978, wed soon after and split from in 1980 while finalizing their divorce a year later.
Principal met prominent Beverly Hills plastic surgeon Dr. Harry Glassman in 1983; they married in 1985 and divorced in 2006.
She has dedicated her time and talents to her philanthropic work and animal rescue efforts. The Victoria Principal Foundation for Thoughtful Existence focuses on helping the environment.
In a 2012 interview with the HuffPost she said, 'My deepest concern is for the planet and every living thing on it.
'Without a healthy planet,' she continued, 'education won't matter, hunger won't matter, and science won't matter because we will not survive. Unless we rectify the damage we have done to our land and our oceans, then I truly believe the planet will reclaim itself.'