Barbara Bain
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| Barbara Bain | |
 Barbara Bain as Cinnamon Carter in Mission:Impossible |
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| Birth name | Millicent Fogel |
| Born | September 13, 1931 (age 75) Chicago, Illinois, USA |
| Spouse(s) | Martin Landau (1957-1993) |
Barbara Bain (born 13 September 1931) is an American actress.
Bain was born Millicent Fogel in Chicago, Illinois. She graduated from the University of Illinois with a Bachelor's Degree in Sociology and moved to New York City where she was a dancer and high fashion model. Bain studied with Martha Graham, thus cementing her interest in dancing. After attending Lee Strasberg's Actors' Studio, she changed careers to acting.
In 1957, she married actor Martin Landau, with whom she would later star on television. The couple have two children, actress Juliet Landau and film producer Susan Bain Landau Finch. Landau and Bain divorced in 1993.
Bain is best known for her role in the television series Mission Impossible in the role of "Cinnamon Carter" (1966 - 1969), a role she later reprised in one episode of Diagnosis: Murder. She was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for 'Actress in a Television Series' for her performance in Mission: Impossible, 1968. She won three consecutive Emmies for Best Dramatic Actress for that series, in 1967, 1968, 1969.[1] Martin Landau also starred in the series, and her departure from the series in 1969 coincided with his. Later, she starred opposite Landau again in the science fiction television series, Space: 1999 (1975 - 1977), as Dr. Helena Russell. Bain and Landau also performed together on screen in the 1981 made-for-TV film The Harlem Globetrotters on Gilligan's Island.
Bain appeared in the tenth episode of the TV series My So-Called Life, playing Angela Chase's grandmother.
Since then, Bain has worked to further the cause of many charities, including literacy.
[edit] Trivia
The pilot episode of her TV series Space: 1999 is set on September 13, 1999...Bain's 68th birthday.
