Catherine Oxenberg was born on September 22, 1961 is an American actress, best known for her performance as Amanda Carrington on Dynasty and as a socialite of royal ancestry. This girl was born in New York City, the eldest daughter of Howard Oxenberg (a dress manufacturer and close friend of the Kennedy family) and of his first wife H.R.H. Princess Jelisaveta of Yugoslavia.

Her maternal grandmother was Princess Olga of Greece and Denmark, a legendary beauty and the sister of Princess Marina, who married the Duke of Kent (uncle of Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom), and also a first cousin of the Duke of Edinburgh (husband of Queen Elizabeth II). Known as Kitty to her family, she was educated at St. Paul's School and Harvard. Oxenberg dated John Kerry in 1989 after his first marriage ended and before he married Teresa Heinz Kerry.

Her first marriage was to the producer Robert Evans, in Beverly Hills, California on July 12, 1998, but the marriage was annulled nine days later. Catherine then married in Las Vegas on May 8, 1999, the actor Casper Van Dien who had divorced the granddaughter of the late actor Robert Mitchum. Oxenberg now has a primetime tv show, "I Married a Princess" on the Lifetime Television channel. She was portrayed by Rachael Taylor in the 2005 telemovie "Dynasty: The Making of a Guilty Pleasure", about the Behind the scenes goings on during the production of Dynasty She is the mother of India Riven Oxenberg, (b. 7th June, 1991), whose father has never been publicly identified, and of two children with Van Dien: Maya (b. September 20, 2001) and Celeste Alma (b. October 3, 2003).