Crystal Bernard

Crystal Bernard
Bernard at the 1994 Emmy rehearsal
Born	Crystal Lynn Bernard (1961-09-30) September 30, 1961 (age 55) Garland, Texas, U.S.
Occupation	Singer-songwriter, actress
Years active	1982-present

Crystal Lynn Bernard (born September 30, 1961) is an American singer-songwriter and actress. She is known for her seven-year-long role on the comedy Wings. While her main work has been on television, she has appeared in some films and has also pursued a music career.

Bernard was born in Garland, Texas. She was raised in a Southern Baptist home. Her father, Dr. Jerry Wayne Bernard, was a televangelist who traveled across the United States preaching and singing. She became an entertainer at a young age, singing gospel songs with her elder sister, Robyn, also an actress. One recording of the two that has survived from those years is a song called "The Monkey Song" (an objection to evolution), on Feudin' Fussin' and Frettin' recorded when Crystal was 8 years old, a recording of a 1972 Thomas Road Baptist Church service led by Jerry Falwell. She has two younger sisters, Scarlett and Angelique Bernard.

Crystal and one of her sisters sang the "Monkey Song" many years ago in the 1980s at the First Assembly of God church in Slidell, Louisiana, when she was traveling with her father, who was an evangelist.

Bernard studied acting at Alley Theatre while growing up in Houston, Texas. She attended Spring High School and continued her education at Baylor University, and where she studied acting and international relations.

Bernard got her start in primetime television on the sitcom Happy Days, playing K.C. Cunningham during season 10 (1982–83). Then, after various guest appearances on other shows, she joined the cast of the resurrected, syndicated version of the sitcom It’s a Living, playing waitress Amy Tompkins. She played strong-willed airport lunch-counter operator Helen Chappel Hackett on the sitcom Wings for the show’s entire eight-season duration (1990–97).