<Tr> <Th> Years active </Th> <Td> 1974--present </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Spouse (s) </Th> <Td> David Shaw (m . 1976; div. 1981) Peter Lopez (m . 1990; d . 2010) </Td> </Tr> <P> Catherine Bach (born Catherine Bachman; March 1, 1954) 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 . </P> <P> Bach was born in Warren, Ohio, the daughter of Norma Jean Kucera (née Verdugo), an acupuncturist, and Bernard Bachman, a rancher . Her mother was of Mexican descent and her father was of German ancestry . She is descended from the Verdugo family, one of California's earliest landed families . She grew up on a ranch in South Dakota, where she visited her grandparents in Faith, South Dakota, and graduated from Stevens High School (1970) in Rapid City, South Dakota . She studied arts at UCLA where she supplemented her income by making clothes for friends and theatre groups . </P>

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