Barbara Carrera

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name = Barbara Carrera


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first=Leslie | last=Halliwell
coauthors=Walker, John | year=2003
title=Halliwell's Who's Who in the Movies
publisher=HarperCollins
isbn=0060534230 ]
birthplace = Bluefields, Nicaragua
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Barbara Carrera (born December 31 1945) is a Nicaraguan-born American film and TV actress as well as a former model.

Biography

Early life

Carrera was born Barbara Kingsbury in Bluefields, Nicaragua. Her mother, Dona Florencia, was a Nicaraguan of European and Native ancestry, and her father, Louis Kingsbury, was an American ambassador/courier of English ancestry. [cite news
author=Staff | date=1977-08-05
title=New Face: Beauty and the Beasts
publisher=New York Times
url=http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F20712FB3A5E16738DDDAC0894D0405B878BF1D3
accessdate=2008-07-03 ] [cite web
author=Anonymous
url=http://www.filmreference.com/film/9/Barbara-Carrera.html
title=Barbara Carrera Biography (1945-)
publisher=Film Reference | accessdate=2008-07-03 ] There is some uncertainty regarding her year of birth, which some sources give as 1947 or 1951, [cite web
url=http://www.movieactors.com/actors/barbaracarrera.htm
title=Barbara Carrera (1951 - )
publisher=Movie Actors | accessdate=2008-01-18 ] but most list 1945.cite web
url=http://movies.nytimes.com/person/11249/Barbara-Carrera/biography
title=Barbara Carrera | publisher=The New York Times
accessdate=2006-08-10 ] She apparently prefers to say 1953.cite web
year=2007 | url=http://www.nndb.com/people/839/000022773/
title=Barbara Carrera | publisher=Soylent Communications
accessdate=2007-09-23 ] Carrera came to the U.S. at age elevencite book
first=Norbert B.
last=Laufenberg
year=2005
title=Entertainment Celebrities
pages=p. 107
publisher=Trafford Publishing
id=ISBN 1412053358 ] and studied at a convent in Memphis for five years.cite web
author=Anonymous | year=2007
url=http://www.netglimse.com/celebs/pages/barbara_carrera/index.shtml
title=Barbara Carrera - Biography | publisher=Net Glimpse
accessdate=2008-01-18 ]

Career

Carrera 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. [cite book
first=John | last=Soluri | year=2005
title=Banana Cultures: Agriculture, Consumption, & Environmental Change in Honduras & the United States
pages=p. 186 | publisher=University of Texas Press
id=ISBN 0292712561 ] 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". For her portrayal of the villainess "Fatima Blush" in the James Bond movie "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 next year.

On the television screen, she played a part in the series "Dallas" as "Angelica Nero", and, more prominently, in the historical television 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 Coe Forsayth in the TV miniseries "Emma, Queen of the South Seas".

Carrera has appeared on the pages and covers of such magazines as "Vogue", "Paris Match", "Harper's Bazaar", and twice posed nude in "Playboy" (August 1977 and April 1982). [cite web
url=http://tv.yahoo.com/barbara-carrera/contributor/244901
title=Barbara Carrera
publisher=Yahoo TV
accessdate=2006-09-23] She was nominated for the Golden Globe for her role in Never Say Never Again in 1983 and in "Master Gunfighter" in 1973. [cite web
year=2007
url=http://www.fandango.com/barbara-carrera/awards/P+11249
title=Barbara Carrera Awards | publisher=Fandango
accessdate=2007-09-23 ] In 1997 she was appointed ambassador-at-large for Nicaragua by then President Arnoldo Alemán. [cite web
url=http://people.famouswhy.com/barbara_carrera
title=Barbara Carrera | publisher=Famous Why
accessdate=2008-01-18 ] 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.cite web
last=Hall | first=Ken | year=2004
url=http://www.go-star.com/framer/carrera.htm
title=Barbara Carrera
publisher=McElreath Printing & Publishing, Inc.
accessdate=2007-09-23 ]

Personal life

Carrera has married (and divorced) model "Uva Harden", Baron Otto von Hoffman and Greek shipowner Nicholas Mavroleon. She has no children. At some point she was involved with scientology, but left shortly afterwards.Fact|date=July 2008 She is currently friends with journalist Cameron Docherty.

Filmography

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* "Judging Amy" (2 episodes, 2004)
* Don't Hurt Me (2003)
* Paradise (2003)
* Panic (2001)
* "That '70s Show" (1 episode, 2000)
* Coo Coo Cafe (2000)
* Alec to the Rescue (1999)
* "JAG" (1 episode, 1998)
* Waking Up Horton (1998)
* Love Is All There Is (1996)
* The Rockford Files: Godfather Knows Best (1996) (TV)
* Sawbones (1995) (TV)
* Russian Roulette - Moscow 95 (1995)
* "Fortune Hunter" - (1 episode)
* Night of the Archer (1994)
* Tryst (1994)
* Point of Impact (1993)
* Lakota Moon (1992) (TV)
* Murder in Paradise (1990) (TV)
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* Wicked Stepmother (1989)
* Loverboy (1989)
* Love at Stake (1988)
* "Emma: Queen of the South Seas" (1988)
* The Underachievers (1987)
* "Dallas" (25 episodes, 1985-1986)
* Wild Geese II (1985)
* Sins of the Past (1984) (TV)
* Never Say Never Again (1983)
* Lone Wolf McQuade (1983)
* "Matt Houston" (pilot episode, 1982)
* I, the Jury (1982)
* Condorman (1981)
* "Masada" (1981)
* When Time Ran Out... (1980)
* "Centennial" (1978)
* The Island of Dr. Moreau (1977)
* Embryo (1976)
* The Master Gunfighter (1975)
* Puzzle of a Downfall Child (1970)

References

External links

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date=September 28, 2007
url=http://starbulletin.com/2007/09/28/features/story01.html
title=Bravo! A film festival at the Honolulu Academy of Arts celebrates Italy
publisher=Star Bulletin | accessdate=2008-01-18