Barbara Carrera

Barbara Carrera
Born	Barbara Kingsbury c. 1945–51 [note 1] Bluefields, Nicaragua
Occupation(s)	Actress, model
Years active	1970–2004
Spouses	Otto Kurt Freiherr von Hoffman ​ ​ (m. 1966;div. 1972)​ Uva Harden ​ ​ (m. 1972;div. 1976)​ Nicholas Mark Mavroleon ​ ​ (m. 1983,divorced)​
Website	barbaracarreraart.com

Barbara Carrera ^[4] (born Barbara Kingsbury) is an American actress, model and painter. She starred in the films The Master Gunfighter (1975); Embryo (1976); The Island of Dr. Moreau (1977); Condorman (1981); I, the Jury (1982) and Lone Wolf McQuade (1983). She is perhaps best remembered for her performance as SPECTRE assassin Fatima Blush in Never Say Never Again (1983), for which Carrera was nominated for a Golden Globe Award. Carrera is also known for playing Clay Basket in the big-budget miniseries Centennial (1978–79), and as Angelica Nero on the ninth season of CBS prime time soap opera Dallas (1985–86).

Early life

Barbara Kingsbury was born in Bluefields, Nicaragua. Some sources give her birth year as 1947 or 1951, ^[1] but most list 1945. ^{[2] [3]} She prefers to say 1953. ^{[ citation needed ]} Her mother, Florencia Carrera, was Nicaraguan, and her father, Louis Kingsbury, was an American who worked for the US embassy in Nicaragua. ^{[5] [6] [7]}

Sometime after the age of ten, Carrera moved to the United States to live with her father. She moved to New York at the age of 15. ^[8]

Career

Kingsbury began a career as a model at the Eileen Ford agency at the age of 17, ^[3] at which point she changed her last name to her mother's maiden name, Carrera. ^[4] Her first film role was as a fashion model in Puzzle of a Downfall Child (1970), which fared poorly at the box office. In 1972, she appeared on the screen in a publicity role for Chiquita bananas. ^[9] 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^{[ failed verification ]} and March 1982). ^{[10] [ dead link ]}

In 1976, Carrera earned her first Golden Globe nomination ("New Star of the Year - Actress") for her role in The Master Gunfighter . ^{[11] [12]} 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". ^[13] She worked opposite Laurence Olivier in Wild Geese II the following year.

On television, Carrera 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 appeared with fellow "Bond Girls" Maude Adams and Kristina Wayborn in That '70s Show episode "The First Time" (s2,e16, 2000) as bridesmaids for another former Bond Girl, Tanya Roberts, in the role of Midge Pinciotti. Since Paradise (2004), Carrera has not appeared in films or television.

In 1989, Carrera starred with Bette Davis in Wicked Stepmother , Davis's final film role. During filming, Davis fell ill and the script was rewritten for Carrera. "Instead, he rewrote the script to minimize Davis' role as the wicked witch who marries into an unsuspecting family, becoming the children's stepmother. In the original script, Davis was going to turn a cat into the beautiful Barbara Carrera. In the new version, Davis herself turns into Carrera, who assumes Davis' lines for the bulk of the film." ^[14]

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

Carrera is also a painter 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. ^[4]

Personal life

Carrera has been married and divorced three times, her spouses being:

• Otto Kurt Freiherr von Hoffman. They married in New York City in 1966 (religiously in 1969) and divorced in 1972 (religiously in 1983).
• Uva Harden (born 1941), a German fashion model and actor. ^[16] Married in 1972, they divorced in July 1976. ^[17]
• Nicholas Mark Mavroleon, a Greek shipping magnate, ^[18] a few years her junior, who is the younger and only surviving son of Manuel Basil Mavroleon (aka "Bluey") by his second wife, Gioconda de Gallardo y Castro. ^[19] They married on March 16, 1983, and later divorced. ^[20]

Between marriages, Carrera dated Robert De Niro, Robert Evans, Alexander Godunov, Philip Niarchos, Richard Gere and Ryan O'Neal. ^{[21] [22] [23]} After her third marriage, she was involved with Henry Percy, 11th Duke of Northumberland, who later died of a drug overdose in 1995. ^[24]

Carrera has no children.

Filmography

Film

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1970	Puzzle of a Downfall Child	T.J. Brady
1975	The Master Gunfighter	Eula	Nominated — Golden Globe Award for New Star of the Year – Actress
1976	Embryo	Victoria Spencer
1977	The Island of Dr. Moreau	Maria
1980	When Time Ran Out	Iolani
1981	Condorman	Natalia Rambova
1982	I, the Jury	Dr. Charlotte Bennett
1983	Lone Wolf McQuade	Lola Richardson
1983	Never Say Never Again	Fatima Blush	Nominated — Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress – Motion Picture
1985	Wild Geese II	Kathy Lukas
1987	Love at Stake	Faith Stewart
1987	The Underachievers	Katherine
1989	Loverboy	Alex Barnett
1989	Wicked Stepmother	Priscilla
1993	Point of Impact	Eva Largo
1994	Tryst	Julia
1994	Night of the Archer	Victoria de Fleury
1995	Russian Roulette: Moscow 95	Caroline White
1996	Love Is All There Is	Maria Malacici
1998	Waking Up Horton	Isadora
1999	Alec to the Rescue	Madam Wong
2000	Coo Coo Café	Lola
2002	Panic	Bernadette
2004	Paradise	Katherine
2005	Twenty	Maria	Short film

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1978-1979	Centennial	Clay Basket	Miniseries
1981	Masada	Sheva	Miniseries
1982	Matt Houston	Serena Gambacci	Episode: "X-22"
1984	Sins of the Past	Terry Halloran	Television film
1985-1986	Dallas	Angelica Nero	Special Guest Star, 25 episodes
1987	Mike Hammer	Claire Morgan	Episode: "Lady Killer"
1988	Emma: Queen of the South Seas	Emma Coe	Miniseries
1990	Murder in Paradise	Emma Danton	Television film
1992	Lakota Moon	Still Water	Television film
1994	Fortune Hunter	President Isabella Duarte	Episode: "Countdown"
1995	Sawbones	Rita Baldwin	Television film
1996	The Rockford Files: Godfather Knows Best	Elizabetta Fama	Television film
1998	JAG	Marcella Paretti	Episode: "Going After Francesca"
1999	Lakota Moon	Still Water	Television film
2000	That '70s Show	Barbara	Episode: "The First Time"
2004	Judging Amy	Francesca Messina	Episodes: "Baggage Claim" and "My Little Runaway"

Notes

1. Sources give conflicting dates on Carrera's birth year. Some cite 1947 or 1951, ^[1] others claim 1945. ^{[2] [3]}

References

1. "Barbara Carrera". Movie Actors. Archived from the original on January 1, 2008. Retrieved January 18, 2008.
2. Halliwell, Leslie; Walker, John (2003). Halliwell's Who's Who in the Movies . HarperCollins. ISBN   0-06-053423-0.
3. Hal Erickson (2011). "Barbara Carrera". Movies & TV Dept. The New York Times . Archived from the original on May 19, 2011. Retrieved August 10, 2006.
4. Hall, Ken (2004). "Barbara Carrera". McElreath Printing & Publishing, Inc. Archived from the original on September 27, 2007. Retrieved September 23, 2007.
5. Staff (May 8, 1977). "New Face: Beauty and the Beasts". The New York Times. Retrieved July 3, 2008.
6. Anonymous. "Barbara Carrera Biography (1945-)". Film Reference. Retrieved July 3, 2008.
7. Keller, Gary D. (1997). A biographical handbook of Hispanics and United States film. Bilingual Press/Editorial Bilingüe. p. 27. ISBN   0-927534-65-7.
8. Reyes, Luis; Rubie, Peter (2000). Hispanics in Hollywood: a celebration of 100 years in film and television. Lone Eagle Publishing. p. 437. ISBN   1-58065-025-2.
9. Soluri, John (2005). Banana Cultures: Agriculture, Consumption, & Environmental Change in Honduras & the United States. University of Texas Press. p. 186. ISBN   0-292-71256-1.
10. "Barbara Carrera". Yahoo TV. Retrieved September 23, 2006.
11. "Search: Barbara Carrera". Hollywood Foreign Press Association. Archived from the original on December 15, 2009. Retrieved June 14, 2009.
12. "Barbara Carrera Awards". Fandango. 2007. Archived from the original on September 28, 2007. Retrieved September 23, 2007.
13. "Barbara Carrera". www.goldenglobes.com.
14. "Bette Davis Smoking over 'Stepmother'". Los Angeles Times . January 3, 1989.
15. "Biography for Barbera Carrera". Turner Classic Movies. 2009. Retrieved June 7, 2009.
16. Haden-Guest, Anthony (1998). The last party: Studio 54, disco, and the culture of the night. Harper Perennial. p. 26. ISBN   978-0-688-16098-2. They were married in 1973, and lasted for three years.
17. Date of marriage and divorce accessed in the California Divorce Index on ancestry.com on March 14, 2013
18. "Barbara Carrera". India Today. 12: 80. 1987.
19. Rhodes, Michael (March 17, 2009). "Manuel Basil (Bluey) Mavroleon 1927-2009". Peerage News. blogger.com. Retrieved February 11, 2011.
20. Marriage record accessed on ancestry.com on March 14, 2013
21. Murry Frymer (August 15, 1981). "A woman of mystery, except for her goals". The Philadelphia Inquirer .
22. Levy, Shawn (October 28, 2014). De Niro: A Life. Crown. ISBN   9780307716804.
23. Green, Michelle (November 18, 1985). "From the Jet Set to Your TV Set, Dallas' Barbara Carrera Knows Her Role—Lady of Mystery". people.com.
24. The Duke of Northumberland | Herald Scotland

External links

• Barbara Carrera at IMDb
• Barbara Carrera at the TCM Movie Database
• Barbara Carrera at AllMovie
• Chun, Gary (September 28, 2007). "Bravo! A film festival at the Honolulu Academy of Arts celebrates Italy". Star Bulletin. Archived from the original on February 12, 2008. Retrieved January 18, 2008.