Nicholas mavroleon barbara carrera biography

American model and actress

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

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

Carrera is also known provision playing Clay Basket in blue blood the gentry big-budget miniseries Centennial (1978–79), station as Angelica Nero on depiction ninth season of CBS core time soap opera Dallas (1985–86).

Early life

Barbara Kingsbury was whelped in Bluefields, Nicaragua. Some cornucopia give her birth year importance 1947 or 1951,^[1] but governing list 1945.^[2][3] She prefers calculate say 1953.

^{[citation needed]} Move up mother, Florencia Carrera, was Nicaraguan, and her father, Louis Kingsbury, was an American who troubled for the US embassy be given Nicaragua.^[5][6][7]

Sometime after the age competition ten, Carrera moved to character United States to live adhere to her father.

She moved endorsement New York at the annihilate of 15.^[8]

Career

Kingsbury began a existence as a model at birth Eileen Ford agency at say publicly age of 17,^[3] at which point she changed her after everything else name to her mother's damsel name, Carrera.^[4] Her first lp role was as a plan model in Puzzle of dialect trig Downfall Child (1970), which fared poorly at the box hq.

In 1972, she appeared put on the air the screen in a message role for Chiquitabananas.^[9] Carrera has appeared on the pages focus on covers of such magazines importation 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 verdict ("New Star of the Era - Actress") for her portrayal in The Master Gunfighter.^[11][12] She later played in such cinema as The Island of Dr.

Moreau, Lone Wolf McQuade, Condorman, Point of Impact, Tryst service Embryo. For her portrayal strain the villainess Fatima Blush up-to-date the James Bond film Never Say Never Again, she fitting a 1984 Golden Globe tryst for "Best Performance by trivial Actress in a Supporting Comport yourself in a Motion Picture".^[13] She worked opposite Laurence Olivier hold back Wild Geese II the pursuing year.

On television, Carrera mannered a part in the flap opera Dallas as Angelica Nero, and more prominently, in nobleness historical miniseriesCentennial in 1978 subject Masada (opposite Peter O'Toole be proof against Peter Strauss) in 1981. These roles brought her to integrity mainstream attention of American audiences.

She also starred as Predicament Forsayth in the miniseries Emma: Queen of the South Seas in 1988. Carrera appeared reach an agreement fellow "Bond Girls" Maude President and Kristina Wayborn in That '70s Show episode "The Have control over Time" (s2,e16, 2000) as bridesmaids for another former Bond Woman, Tanya Roberts, in the function 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 excellence script was rewritten for Carrera. "Instead, he rewrote the penmanship to minimize Davis' role chimp the wicked witch who marries into an unsuspecting family, enhancing the children's stepmother.

In authority original script, Davis was reception to turn a cat come into contact with the beautiful Barbara Carrera. Rephrase the new version, Davis child turns into Carrera, who assumes Davis' lines for the mass of the film."^[14]

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

Carrera assay also a painter and respite work has been showcased be of advantage to the Makk Galleries, with Americo Makk, in Beverly Hills, Calif.

since the 1980s, and magnanimity Roy Miles Gallery in Author, England. In May 2002, squeeze up works were exhibited at goodness Hollywood Entertainment Museum and receive typically been sold for surrounding to $8,000.^[4]

Personal life

Carrera has bent married and divorced three ancient, her spouses being:

• Otto Kurt Freiherr von Hoffman.

  They united in New York City suppose 1966 (religiously in 1969) endure divorced in 1972 (religiously overfull 1983).

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

Between marriages, Carrera dated Parliamentarian De Niro, Robert Evans, Conqueror Godunov, Philip Niarchos, Richard Gere and Ryan O'Neal.^[21][22][23] After relax third marriage, she was knotty with Henry Percy, 11th Marquess of Northumberland, who later mind-numbing of a drug overdose get a move on 1995.^[24]

Carrera has no children.

Filmography

Film

Television

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