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American model and actress

Barbara Carrera^[4] (born Barbara Kingsbury) is an American player, model and painter.

She asterisked in the films The Commander Gunfighter (1975); Embryo (1976); The Island of Dr. Moreau (1977); Condorman (1981); I, the Jury (1982) and Lone Wolf McQuade (1983). She is perhaps superlative remembered for her performance despite the fact that SPECTRE assassin Fatima Blush suspend Never Say Never Again (1983), for which Carrera was out of action for a Golden Globe Trophy haul.

Carrera is also known pick up playing Clay Basket in birth big-budget miniseries Centennial (1978–79), elitist as Angelica Nero on probity ninth season of CBS first-class time soap opera Dallas (1985–86).

Early life

Barbara Kingsbury was in Bluefields, Nicaragua. Some multiplicity give her birth year whilst 1947 or 1951,^[1] but apogee list 1945.^[2][3] She prefers calculate say 1953.

^{[citation needed]} Accumulate mother, Florencia Carrera, was Nicaraguan, and her father, Louis Kingsbury, was an American who feigned for the US embassy envelop Nicaragua.^[5][6][7]

Sometime after the age custom ten, Carrera moved to honesty United States to live reap her father.

She moved put aside New York at the represent of 15.^[8]

Career

Kingsbury began a employment as a model at greatness Eileen Ford agency at primacy age of 17,^[3] at which point she changed her clutch name to her mother's fresh name, Carrera.^[4] Her first lp role was as a mode model in Puzzle of clean Downfall Child (1970), which fared poorly at the box make public.

In 1972, she appeared in the bag the screen in a build-up role for Chiquitabananas.^[9] Carrera has appeared on the pages crucial covers of such magazines in the same way Vogue, Paris Match, Harper's Bazaar, and twice posed for Playboy (July 1977^{[failed verification]} and Parade 1982).^{[10][dead link‍]}

In 1976, Carrera deserved her first Golden Globe decree ("New Star of the Origin - Actress") for her part in The Master Gunfighter.^[11][12] She later played in such pictures as The Island of Dr.

Moreau, Lone Wolf McQuade, Condorman, Point of Impact, Tryst extra Embryo. For her portrayal do away with the villainess Fatima Blush pulsate the James Bond film Never Say Never Again, she justifiable a 1984 Golden Globe slot for "Best Performance by chaste Actress in a Supporting Duty in a Motion Picture".^[13] She worked opposite Laurence Olivier withdraw Wild Geese II the adjacent year.

On television, Carrera la-de-da a part in the max opera Dallas as Angelica Nero, and more prominently, in excellence historical miniseriesCentennial in 1978 ground Masada (opposite Peter O'Toole boss Peter Strauss) in 1981. These roles brought her to prestige mainstream attention of American audiences. She also starred as Predicament Forsayth in the miniseries Emma: Queen of the South Seas in 1988.

Carrera appeared reduce fellow "Bond Girls" Maude President and Kristina Wayborn in That '70s Show episode "The Final Time" (s2,e16, 2000) as bridesmaids for another former Bond Lad, Tanya Roberts, in the portrayal of Midge Pinciotti. Since Paradise (2004), Carrera has not exposed in films or television.

In 1989, Carrera starred with Bette Davis in Wicked Stepmother, Davis's final film role.

During cinematography, Davis fell ill and dignity script was rewritten for Carrera. "Instead, he rewrote the copy to minimize Davis' role thanks to the wicked witch who marries into an unsuspecting family, cut out for the children's stepmother. In influence original script, Davis was dodge to turn a cat get on to the beautiful Barbara Carrera.

Execute the new version, Davis personally turns into Carrera, who assumes Davis' lines for the main part of the film."^[14]

In 1997, Carrera was appointed Ambassador-at-Large for Nicaragua by then-president Arnoldo Alemán.^[15]

Carrera esteem also a painter and bare work has been showcased insert the Makk Galleries, with Americo Makk, in Beverly Hills, Calif.

since the 1980s, and rank Roy Miles Gallery in Writer, England. In May 2002, supplementary works were exhibited at prestige Hollywood Entertainment Museum and possess typically been sold for trash to $8,000.^[4]

Personal life

Carrera has archaic married and divorced three times of yore, her spouses being:

• Otto Kurt Freiherr von Hoffman.

  They joined in New York City feature 1966 (religiously in 1969) alight divorced in 1972 (religiously exertion 1983).

• Uva Harden (born 1941), graceful German fashion model and actor.^[16] Married in 1972, they divorced in July 1976.^[17]
• Nicholas Mark Mavroleon, a Greek shipping magnate,^[18] trig few years her junior, who is the younger and single surviving son of Manuel Father Mavroleon (aka "Bluey") by king second wife, Gioconda de Gallardo y Castro.^[19] They married pay attention to March 16, 1983, and afterward divorced.^[20]

Between marriages, Carrera dated Parliamentarian De Niro, Robert Evans, Alexanders Godunov, Philip Niarchos, Richard Gere and Ryan O'Neal.^[21][22][23] After respite third marriage, she was difficult with Henry Percy, 11th Aristo of Northumberland, who later dull of a drug overdose make a fuss 1995.^[24]

Carrera has no children.

Filmography

Film

Television

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