Barbara Carrera Biography

Barbara Carrera is a Nicaraguan American film and television actress and former model. She is known for her roles as spectre assassin Fatima Blush in Never Say Never Again, as Natalia Rambova in Condorman, and as Angelica Nero on the soap opera Dallas.

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Barbara Carrera Age

Barbara Carrera born as Barbara Kingsbury was born in Bluefields, Nicaragua, America on 31st December 31, 1945. As of 2018, she is 73 years and is of American Nationality.

Barbara Carrera Family

Barbara Kingsbury was born in Bluefields, Nicaragua, to Florencia Carrera, who was a Nicaraguan of European, and Louis Kingsbury, who was a U.S. employee of the American embassy in Nicaragua. Her parents separated when she was seven.
She had an elder half-sister, Maisie Kingsbury. At the age of ten, she moved to the United States to live with her father, she was placed in a school in Memphis. At the age of fifteen, She moved to New York.

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Barbara Carrera Husband

With her sprouting beauty in her younger years, Carrera met with different people. She has been married thrice;

In 1966 she married Otto Kurt Freiherr von Hoffman, a German nobleman. They married in New York City religiously in 1969 and later divorced in 1972 religiously in 1983.
In 1972, she married Uva Harden (born 1941), a German fashion model and actor. They later divorced in July 1976.
On March 16, 1983, she married Nicholas Mark Mavroleon, a Greek shipping magnate. He was a few years her junior, who is the younger and only surviving son of Manuel Basil Mavroleon (aka “Bluey”) by his second wife, Gioconda de Gallardo y Castro. They later divorced.

From the three marriages, she did not have any children. Additionally, after her third marriage, she was involved with Henry Percy, 11th Duke of Northumberland and, later, with Cameron Docherty, a Scottish-born biographer, and journalist.

Barbara Carrera Career

In modeling, she was one of the few top models to successfully make the transition from the fashion pages to the silver screen. Barbara started modeling as a teenager and has graced the covers of more than 300 fashion magazines, including Vogue, Harper’s Bazaar, Cosmopolitan & Elle.

In 1970, she had her first film role as a fashion model in Puzzle of a Downfall Child. In 1976, she earned her first Golden Globe nomination (“New Star of the Year — Actress”) for her role in The Master Gunfighter. Later she played in films such as The Island of Dr. Moreau, Lone Wolf McQuade, Condorman, Point of Impact, Tryst and Embryo.

For her portrayal of the in the She also appeared in James Bond film Never Say Never Again, as villainess Fatima Blush. This earned her a 1984 Golden Globe nomination for Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role in a Motion Picture The following year, she worked opposite Laurence Olivier in Wild Geese II.

She played a part in the soap opera Dallas as Angelica Nero, and in the historical miniseries Centennial in 1978 and in 1981, Masada (opposite Peter O’Toole and Peter Strauss). In 1988, She starred as Emma Forsayth in the miniseries Emma: Queen of the South Seas. She has appeared on the pages and covers of magazines such as Vogue, Paris Match, Harper’s Bazaar, and twice posed for Playboy. In 1997, she was appointed ambassador-at-large for Nicaragua by then-president Arnoldo Alemán.

Additionally, she has received several Golden Globe nominations and awards for her work in film, as well as being the only actor to ever receive a nomination for her work in a James Bond movie.

As an artist, her work has been showcased in the Makk Galleries, with Americo Makk, in Beverly Hills, California since the 1980s, and the Roy Miles Gallery in London, England. her works were also exhibited at the Hollywood Entertainment Museum in may 2002, and have typically been sold for up to $8,000. Since 2004, Carrera has not appeared in films or television.

Some of the legendary actors she painted were actors with whom she has worked. When she started in the film business, she vowed to work with some of the old-time greats. Some of the ones she did manage to work with are, Sean Connery (with whom she co-starred in the James Bond film, Never Say Never Again), Bette Davis (whom she starred within the black comedy, Wicked Stepmother) and Paul Newman, (When Time Ran Out).

Some of the other great actors that Miss Carrera also worked with include Laurence Olivier in Wild Geese, Burt Lancaster, and Michael York in The Island of Dr. Moreau, and Peter O’Toole in Masada.

Barbara also painted past legends such as Audrey Hepburn, Grace Kelly, Marilyn Monroe, Elizabeth Taylor, Greta Garbo, Charlie Chaplin, Anthony Quinn, James Dean, Gary Cooper, Cary Grant, Humphrey Bogart, Vivien Leigh (As Scarlet O’Hara) and Clark Gable(As Rhett Butler). In addition to portraits, Barbara Carrera paints visionary landscapes with insightful images.

Dedicated to daily meditation, Miss Carrera draws inspiration for her art from hours of introspection. She becomes intensely involved with her subjects and seeks to capture their inner essence.

Barbara Carrera Movies And TV Shows

Some of the movies she has appeared in include:

Murder in Paradise (1990, TV Movie) as Emma Danton
Lakota Moon (1992, TV Movie) as Still Water
Point of Impact (1993) as Eva Largo
Tryst (1994) as Julia
Night of the Archer (1994) as Victoria de Fleury
Fortune Hunter (1994, TV Series) as President Isabella Duarte
Sawbones (1995, TV Movie) as Rita Baldwin
Russian Roulette – Moscow 95 (1995) as Caroline White
The Rockford Files: Godfather Knows Best (1996, TV Movie) as Elizabetta Fama
Love Is All There Is (1996) as Maria Malacici
JAG (1998, TV Series) as Marcella Paretti
Waking Up Horton (1998) as Isadora
Alec to the Rescue (1999) as Madam Wong
That ’70s Show (2000, TV Series) as Barbara
Coo Coo Café (2000) as Lola
Panic (2002) as Bernadette
Don’t Hurt Me (2003)
Judging Amy (2004, TV Series) as Francesca Messina
Paradise (2004) as Katherine (final film role)

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