Barbara Carrera
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Barbara Carrera (born December 31, 1951) is a film and TV actress as well as a former model.
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.
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[edit] Career
Carrera began a career as a model at the Eileen Ford agency at the age of 17,[1] 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 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 and the 1978 TV miniseries Centennial, 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".
[edit] Recognition
Barbara Carrera has graced the pages and covers of such magazines as Vogue, Paris Match, Harper's Bazaar, and posed nude in Playboy in the 1960s.[2] She is also an artist and her work has been showcased in the Makk Galleries in Beverly Hills in California since the 1980s, and the Roy Miles Gallery in London, England. In May 2002 her work was exhibited at the Hollywood Entertainment Museum and are typically sold for up to $8,000.[3]
She was nominated for the Golden Globe for her role in Never Say Never Again in 1983 and in "Master Gunfighter" in 1973.[4]
[edit] Filmography
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