Barbara Carrera
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Barbara Carrera (born December 31, 1951) is a film and TV actress.
She was born in Bluefields, Nicaragua, the daughter of a US ambassador and a Nicaraguan mother, and thus probably holds dual US/Nicaraguan citizenship.
Barbara Carrera has married (and divorced):
- model Uva Barden
- Baron Otto von Hoffman
- Greek shipowner Nicholas Mavroleon.
She has no children.
At some point she was involved with Scientology, but left shortly afterward. She is currently friends with journalist Cameron Docherty.
[edit] Career
Carrera began a career as a model at the Eileen Ford agency at the age of 17, and was much sought due to her toned physique and beautiful features.
Her first appearance on the screen was a publicity role for the Chiquita bananas. Her first film role was as a fashion model in Puzzle of a Downfall Child (1970), which fared poorly at the box office. She also appeared in Playboy.
She later played in such films as The Island of Dr. Moreau, Lone Wolf McQuade, Condorman, Point of Impact, Tryst, and Embryo. But she is perhaps best known for her role as the villainess Fatima Blush in the James Bond movie Never Say Never Again, which earned her a Golden Globes nomination for Best Performance by an Actress In A Supporting Role in a Motion Picture in 1984. She also played a part in the television series Dallas as "Angelica Nero", and more prominently, she was in the historical 1981 TV miniseries Masada, which brought her to the mainstream attention of American audiences. She also starred as Emma Coe Forsayth in the television miniseries "Emma, Queen of the South Seas".
She is an artist, and her paintings have been hung in the Hollywood Entertainment Museum.
