Krystle Carrington (also Grant and Jennings) is a fictional character from the 1980s American TV series Dynasty, created by Richard and Esther Shapiro.

In the story, Krystle is the former secretary and new wife of oil tycoon Blake Carrington (John Forsythe), and initially has to adjust to his machinations and upper class lifestyle.

The arrival of Joan Collins as Blake's glamorous ex-wife Alexis Carrington provided a foil for Krystle for the remainder of the series.

Evans made her final appearance during the eighth episode of the season, "The Wedding", which aired on January 12, 1989, four months before the series was ultimately cancelled.

Krystle Carrington is a tender, loving, woman—a passionate romantic living the life of every girl's dream, yet, bringing to it common sense, compassion and seal of approval.

[5]Krystle is "sweet, loyal, and loving", the "good girl" in contrast to Blake's first wife, the villainous Alexis (Joan Collins).

[6] In Women and Soap Opera, Christine Geraghty described Krystle as the moral center of her family, "a constant reminder to the [male characters] of the need for integrity, humanity and domestic harmony.

[8] According to Shapiro, Krystle acts as the show's moral compass, "trying to bring decency to the strange and often sinister world of the rich, where the rules are often very different.

"[4] Evans described the similarities between herself and her character: "We both care for people; we both used to seek peace at any price, tried to work out things in the family and felt tremendous joy and happiness in having a relationship.

Blake and his family survive the attack, although Steven's boyfriend Luke, and Lady Ashley Mitchell are killed, while King Galen is badly hurt.

As Rita infiltrates the Carrington mansion for several weeks (where not even Blake can tell that she is an imposter), Joel becomes obsessed with the captive Krystle.

Krystle takes an active role in the campaign, including researching the sudden death of Alexis' second husband Cecil Colby.

Three years later, Krystle has recovered from her coma, which is revealed to have been medically induced to allow an evil international consortium to brainwash her into killing Blake.

Evans won a Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Television Drama Series for the role in 1981, and was subsequently nominated every year from 1982 to 1985.

"[17] A pilot for a Dynasty reboot for The CW was announced in September 2016,[18][19] and Nathalie Kelley was cast as Cristal Flores, a Latina reimagining of Krystle, in January 2017.

[20][21] Kelley said that producers offered her the role after seeing her work in The CW series The Vampire Diaries, and she signed on before reading a script.

I didn't know too many actresses who can hold a candle to the wonderful Elizabeth Gillies (Fallon Carrington), who absolutely nails that tone and that genre ...

[25][26][27] In July 2019, the network announced that Contreras would not be returning for season three for personal reasons, and that Daniella Alonso would take over the role of Cristal.

"[37] In the premiere episode "I Hardly Recognized You", Cristal (Nathalie Kelley) is engaged to her billionaire boss Blake Carrington (Grant Show), but is immediately disliked by his willful daughter Fallon (Elizabeth Gillies).

Meanwhile, Anders (Alan Dale), the Carrington family butler, makes his dislike for Cristal (and his knowledge of her past) known, and the arrival of her shady nephew Sam (Rafael de la Fuente)—who has just slept with Fallon's brother, Steven (James Mackay)—puts her in further jeopardy.

In "Guilt is for Insecure People", Sam's mother—Cristal's sister Iris (Elena Tovar)—is in trouble, but Anders has made it impossible for Cristal to send her money.

She is tempted by a diamond necklace worth millions, but Sam takes the initiative and secretly arranges the theft of Cristal's engagement ring and other valuables during a charity gala.

Learning that his illness is tied to an environmental scandal that Carrington Atlantic covered up, Cristal convinces Blake to go public with the truth in "Use or Be Used", but he later destroys her files on the coverup and uses a recording of her admitting guilt to keep her in line.

In "Dead Scratch", a resurrected Matthew helps Claudia escape the sanitarium, and they infiltrate the mansion during the preparations for Steven and Sam's wedding.

In season two, Celia/Cristal has died, and in "Twenty-Three Skidoo" several women appear claiming to be the person from whom Celia stole her assumed identity.

In "Even Worms Can Procreate", Alexis tries to convince Mark that the baby is his, and Blake tells Cristal that whatever the paternity test shows, he will raise the child as his own.

Mark shows up at the manor to get the truth from Cristal, and Blake asks him to stay with the Carringtons until the test results come back.

In "Miserably Ungrateful Men", Cristal resists Beto's demand that she hire one of her father's pet players for the Atlantix, but he refuses to leave Atlanta until she capitulates.

In "This Illness of Mine", Blake and Cristal succeed in getting gambling legalized in Atlanta, but Michael learns that they coerced politicians to secure the vote.

Nothing about this Cristal makes her seem like a worthy love interest for Blake or an intimidating adversary for the headstrong and disapproving Fallon, despite the attempts to give her a mysterious backstory.