Barbara Bain

Barbara Bain

Infobox actor
name = Barbara Bain


caption = Barbara Bain (2006)
birthname = Millicent Fogel
birthdate = birth date and age|1931|9|13
birthplace = Chicago, Illinois, USA
occupation = Actor
spouse = Martin Landau (1957-1993)
children = Juliet Landau
Susan Bain Landau Finch
emmyawards = Best Actress - Drama Series
1967 '
Best Actress - Drama Series
1968
'
Best Actress - Drama Series
1969 ""

Barbara Bain (born 13 September 1931) is a American actress.

Bain was born Millicent Fogel into a Jewish family 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 became an actress.

Bain is best known for her work in the television series ' as Cinnamon Carter; she played this role from 1966 until 1969 and again in one 1997 episode of '. She was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for 'Actress in a Television Series' for her performance in "Mission: Impossible" in 1968. She won three consecutive Emmys for Best Dramatic Actress for that series in 1967, 1968, and 1969. [ [http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0151533.html "1967-1968 Emmy Awards"] . Infoplease.com.] Her husband, 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, "" (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. Bain also appeared in Season 2 of the TV series "The Dick Van Dyke Show" in the episode "Will You Two Be My Wife?".

In 2006, Bain had a minor role in an episode of "" ("Living Legends") which featured a suspect, played by another actor, who used stretch rubber face masks similar to those used in the old "Mission: Impossible" series in which Bain starred.

Bain has worked to further the cause of many charities, including literacy.

Private life

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.

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