Crystal Conner (née Anderson) was one of Roseanne and Jackie's best friends who began dating, then married Dan's father, Ed. The part of Crystal is played by Natalie West.
Biography[]
Crystal Conner is Roseanne Conner's and Jackie Harris' good-hearted childhood friend, a self-described "doormat" when it comes to men. She speaks with a southern accent despite having grown up in Lanford. She always said she got the accent from her father, who was from Arkansas. When she was 16, her mother kicked her out of the house and she moved in with her Aunt Ida.
She met her first husband Rusty when she was 17 and divorced at 18. Rusty ended up cutting their trailer in half. She then married a man named Travis and divorced him shortly after. She thought she met the man of her dreams when she met Sonny Anderson, a construction worker. They fell in love and married. While Crystal was pregnant with their son Lonnie, Sonny was out working on the Monument Street Bridge when he slipped off the bridge and fell into one of the pillars as the concrete was being poured. For the longest time, Crystal grieved Sonny's death for several years and couldn't look past it as she raised Lonnie on her own.
Crystal worked at Wellman Plastics Factory with Roseanne, Jackie, Sylvia, and Vonda. She was part of the walkout with Roseanne and a few other friends. She became a successful cosmetics sales representative.
Crystal married three more times before she ended up marrying Dan's father Ed Conner (against Dan's strong disapproval) because Ed had known Crystal since she was 12. She and Ed had a son, Ed Jr., and a daughter, Angela. Their marriage, which lasted until Ed Sr.'s death, was happy enough; most of the conflict was created by Ed's absences.
21 years later, she had remained good friends with Roseanne and Jackie. She recently retired from her job as a waitress at a casino and given her former job to Darlene, but retirement proved too boring and she returned to her casino-waitress job.
A regular cast-member for Season 3 and Season 4, Crystal appears as an occasional recurring character before and afterwards. Her appearances reduce drastically after Season 5, where she only appears in two episodes from Season 6 and one episode from Season 8. Crystal would later return in Season 10 for the revival and make occasional appearances in the spin-off The Conners.
When Roseanne passed away, Crystal felt her death very deeply and had a very har time accepting Dan's new love, Louise Goldufski.
Relationships[]
Ed Conner - Husband (deceased)
Ed Conner Jr. - Son (with Ed)
Angela Conner - Daughter (with Ed)
Lonnie Anderson - Son (with Sonny)
Dan Conner - (longtime friend/stepson)
Roseanne Conner - (childhood friend/stepdaughter-in-law)
Becky Conner - Granddaughter (when she married Ed)
Darlene Conner - Granddaughter (when she married Ed)
D.J. Conner - Grandson (when she married Ed)
Rusty - Ex-husband
Travis - Ex-husband
Ida - Aunt
Sonny - Husband (3rd husband - deceased)
Trivia[]
In the episode Second Time Around, Crystal, pregnant with Angela, mentions that her grandmother’s name was Ruby and her mother was named Amber as a part of a family tradition, one that Crystal wanted to stop.
List of Appearances[]
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| Season 1 | X | - | - | - | - | X | - | - | - | - | - | 2 | |||||||||||
| Season 2 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 0 | ||
| Season 3 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 0 | ||
| Season 4 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 0 | ||
| Season 5 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 0 |
| Season 6 | - | - | - | - | X | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | |||||||||
| Total | 3 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Roseanne (TV series) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 | 24 | 25 | 26 | # | |
| Season 1 | X | X | - | - | X | X | X | X | X | X | - | - | X | X | - | X | - | - | X | X | - | - | X | N/A | 14 | ||
| Season 2 | X | - | X | - | - | - | X | X | X | X | - | - | X | - | X | - | X | X | - | X | X | - | - | X | N/A | 12 | |
| Season 3 | X | - | - | - | - | - | X | X | - | X | - | - | X | X | - | - | X | - | X | - | - | X | X | X | X | N/A | 12 |
| Season 4 | X | - | X | - | - | X | - | - | - | X | X | X | X | X | - | X | - | - | - | - | - | X | X | - | X | N/A | 12 |
| Season 5 | X | - | - | - | X | - | X | - | - | - | - | - | - | X | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | N/A | 4 |
| Season 6 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | X | X | - | - | - | - | N/A | 2 |
| Season 7 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 0 |
| Season 8 | X | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | N/A | 1 |
| Season 9 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | N/A | 0 | |
| Season 10 | - | - | - | - | - | X | - | X | - | N/A | 2 | ||||||||||||||||
| Total | 59 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||