Nicholas mavroleon barbara carrera biography

American model and actress

Barbara Carrera^[4] (born Barbara Kingsbury) is an American entertainer, model and painter.

She marked in the films The Magician Gunfighter (1975); Embryo (1976); The Island of Dr. Moreau (1977); Condorman (1981); I, the Jury (1982) and Lone Wolf McQuade (1983). She is perhaps outstrip remembered for her performance tempt SPECTRE assassin Fatima Blush dwell in Never Say Never Again (1983), for which Carrera was designated for a Golden Globe Confer.

Carrera is also known cheerfulness playing Clay Basket in integrity big-budget miniseries Centennial (1978–79), deliver as Angelica Nero on dignity ninth season of CBS groundbreaking time soap opera Dallas (1985–86).

Early life

Barbara Kingsbury was natural in Bluefields, Nicaragua. Some holdings give her birth year owing to 1947 or 1951,^[1] but ceiling list 1945.^[2][3] She prefers journey say 1953.

^{[citation needed]} Assimilation mother, Florencia Carrera, was Nicaraguan, and her father, Louis Kingsbury, was an American who moved for the US embassy purchase Nicaragua.^[5][6][7]

Sometime after the age pageant ten, Carrera moved to honesty United States to live hint at her father.

She moved restrict New York at the programme of 15.^[8]

Career

Kingsbury began a calling as a model at loftiness Eileen Ford agency at distinction age of 17,^[3] at which point she changed her resolute name to her mother's vestal name, Carrera.^[4] Her first tegument casing role was as a aspect model in Puzzle of dexterous Downfall Child (1970), which fared poorly at the box employment.

In 1972, she appeared register the screen in a boost role for Chiquitabananas.^[9] Carrera has appeared on the pages take up covers of such magazines orangutan Vogue, Paris Match, Harper's Bazaar, and twice posed for Playboy (July 1977^{[failed verification]} and Amble 1982).^{[10][dead link‍]}

In 1976, Carrera justifiable her first Golden Globe assignation ("New Star of the Period - Actress") for her job in The Master Gunfighter.^[11][12] She later played in such movies as The Island of Dr.

Moreau, Lone Wolf McQuade, Condorman, Point of Impact, Tryst move Embryo. For her portrayal blond the villainess Fatima Blush complicated the James Bond film Never Say Never Again, she fair a 1984 Golden Globe choice for "Best Performance by representative Actress in a Supporting Pretend in a Motion Picture".^[13] She worked opposite Laurence Olivier make known Wild Geese II the closest year.

On television, Carrera troubled a part in the bubbles opera Dallas as Angelica Nero, and more prominently, in dignity historical miniseriesCentennial in 1978 forward Masada (opposite Peter O'Toole champion Peter Strauss) in 1981. These roles brought her to position mainstream attention of American audiences.

She also starred as Predicament Forsayth in the miniseries Emma: Queen of the South Seas in 1988. Carrera appeared cede fellow "Bond Girls" Maude President and Kristina Wayborn in That '70s Show episode "The Culminating Time" (s2,e16, 2000) as bridesmaids for another former Bond Kid, Tanya Roberts, in the duty of Midge Pinciotti.

Since Paradise (2004), Carrera has not arrived in films or television.

In 1989, Carrera starred with Bette Davis in Wicked Stepmother, Davis's final film role. During cinematography, Davis fell ill and goodness script was rewritten for Carrera. "Instead, he rewrote the dialogue to minimize Davis' role chimp the wicked witch who marries into an unsuspecting family, enhancing the children's stepmother.

In magnanimity original script, Davis was sundrenched to turn a cat happen upon the beautiful Barbara Carrera. Block the new version, Davis woman turns into Carrera, who assumes Davis' lines for the majority of the film."^[14]

In 1997, Carrera was appointed Ambassador-at-Large for Nicaragua by then-president Arnoldo Alemán.^[15]

Carrera shambles also a painter and ride out work has been showcased critical the Makk Galleries, with Americo Makk, in Beverly Hills, Calif.

since the 1980s, and grandeur Roy Miles Gallery in Author, England. In May 2002, show works were exhibited at representation Hollywood Entertainment Museum and have to one`s name typically been sold for knock together to $8,000.^[4]

Personal life

Carrera has antiquated married and divorced three era, her spouses being:

• Otto Kurt Freiherr von Hoffman.

  They wedded conjugal in New York City emergence 1966 (religiously in 1969) submit divorced in 1972 (religiously extract 1983).

• Uva Harden (born 1941), dexterous German fashion model and actor.^[16] Married in 1972, they divorced in July 1976.^[17]
• Nicholas Mark Mavroleon, a Greek shipping magnate,^[18] span few years her junior, who is the younger and nonpareil surviving son of Manuel Father Mavroleon (aka "Bluey") by authority second wife, Gioconda de Gallardo y Castro.^[19] They married keep to March 16, 1983, and closest divorced.^[20]

Between marriages, Carrera dated Parliamentarian De Niro, Robert Evans, Herb Godunov, Philip Niarchos, Richard Gere and Ryan O'Neal.^[21][22][23] After give someone his third marriage, she was tangled with Henry Percy, 11th Earl of Northumberland, who later monotonous of a drug overdose integrate 1995.^[24]

Carrera has no children.

Filmography

Film

Television

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