Height 1.75 m Role Film actress | Name Barbara Carrera Years active 1970-present | |
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Full Name Barbara Kingsbury Website www.barbaracarreraart.com Spouse Uva Barden (m. 1972-1976), Otto von Hoffman (m. ?–1983) Parents Louis Kingsbury, Florencia Carrera Movies Similar People Kim Basinger, Klaus Maria Brandauer, Tia Carrere, Barbara Bach, Valerie Leon | ||
Barbara carrera actress
Barbara Carrera (born Barbara Kingsbury on December 31, 1945) 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 actress
Early life
Barbara Kingsbury was born in Bluefields, Nicaragua. Some sources give her birth year as 1947 or 1951, but most list 1945. Although she prefers to say 1953, public records state 1945. Her mother, Florencia Carrera, was a Nicaraguan of European and Native ancestry, and her father, Louis Kingsbury, was a U.S. employee of the American embassy in Nicaragua. Her parents separated when she was seven.
Carrera had at least one elder half-sibling, a sister, Maisie Kingsbury.
Sometime after the age of ten, Carrera moved to the United States to live with her father, who placed her in a school in Memphis. She moved to New York at the age of fifteen.
Career
Kingsbury began a career as a model at the Eileen Ford agency at the age of 17, at which point she changed her last name to her mother's maiden name, Carrera. In 1972, she appeared on the screen in 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. In 1976, she earned her first Golden Globe nomination ("New Star of the Year -- Actress") for her role in The Master Gunfighter. She later played in such films as The Island of Dr. Moreau, Lone Wolf McQuade, Condorman, Point of Impact, Tryst and Embryo. For her portrayal of the villainess Fatima Blush in the James Bond film Never Say Never Again, she earned a 1984 Golden Globe nomination for "Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role in a Motion Picture". She worked opposite Laurence Olivier in Wild Geese II the following year.
On television, she played a part in the soap opera Dallas as Angelica Nero, and more prominently, in the historical miniseries Centennial in 1978 and Masada (opposite Peter O'Toole and Peter Strauss) in 1981. These roles brought her to the mainstream attention of American audiences. She also starred as Emma Forsayth in the miniseries Emma: Queen of the South Seas in 1988.
Carrera has appeared on the pages and covers of such magazines as Vogue, Paris Match, Harper's Bazaar, and twice posed for Playboy (July 1977 and March 1982).
In 1997, she was appointed ambassador-at-large for Nicaragua by then-president Arnoldo Alemán.
She is also an artist and 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. In May 2002, her works were exhibited at the Hollywood Entertainment Museum and have typically been sold for up to $8,000.
Carrera has not appeared in films or television since 2004.
Personal life
Carrera has been married and divorced three times, her spouses being:
After her third marriage, Carrera was involved with Henry Percy, 11th Duke of Northumberland and, later, with Cameron Docherty, a Scottish-born biographer and journalist.