Barbara Carrera

Nefertiti · January 1, 2010

Barbara Carrera (born December 31, 1945) is a Nicaraguan-born American film and TV actress as well as a former model. She is known for her roles as Bond girl Fatima Blush in Never Say Never Again and Angelica Nero on the television series Dallas.

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. Her first film role was as a fashion model in Puzzle of a Downfall Child (1970), which fared poorly at the box office. In 1976 she earned her first Golden Globe nomination for her role in The Master Gunfighter.

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 March 1982). She was nominated for a Golden Globe for her role in The Master Gunfighter in 1975. In 1997 she was appointed ambassador-at-large for Nicaragua by then President Arnoldo Alemán. 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 have typically been sold for up to $8,000.

Carrera has married (and divorced) model Uva Harden,Baron Otto von Hoffman, Greek shipowner Nicholas Mavroleon (the younger but only surviving son of Manuel Basil Mavroleon, alias Bluey Mavroleon (1927-2009) by his 2nd wife Gioconda de Gallardo y Castro),and photographer Cameron Docherty.

She has no children.

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Barbara Carrera, born Barbara Kingsbury is a Nicaraguan-born American film and television actress as well as a former model. She is best known for her roles as Bond girl Fatima Blush in Never Say Never Again and as Angelica Nero on the soap opera Dallas.

Barbara Carrera was a top fashion model before turning to a career as an actress in films and television. The statuesque Nicaraguan-born beauty's dark looks graced the pages and covers of such magazines as VOGUE, PARIS MATCH, HARPER'S BAZAAR, PLAYBOY in the 1960s. She broke into features portraying a model in "Puzzle of a Downfall Child" (1970), starring Faye Dunaway. Her first role of substance in "Master Gunfighter" (1976) saw Carrera as little more than window dressing for co-star Tom Laughlin before essaying the role of a tiger-woman involved with Michael York in the 1977 remake of "The Island of Dr. Moreau". The actress had what was perhaps her best known role, however, as Bond Girl Fatima Blush opposite Sean Connery in "Never Say Never Again" (1983). She also was seen as Patrick Dempsey's first adult sexual conquest in "Loverboy" (1989). Dropping out of film work for several years, Carrera returned opposite Louise Fletcher in "Tryst" (1995), and in "Love Is All There Is" (1996), paired with Paul Sorvino in a modern spin on Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet".

On the small screen, Carrera debuted as the Native American Clay Basket in the NBC miniseries "Centennial" (1978-79). She went on to portray Sheva, the woman who does what needs to be done to survive, in "Masada" (ABC, 1981) and starred as "Emma: Queen of the South Seas", a 1988 syndicated miniseries playing the real-life woman who saved the Samoan Islands from colonization in the 19th Century. Carrera was featured in the 1982 pilot for ABC's "Matt Houston" and played a former call girl looking back over 20 years in "Sins of the Past" (ABC, 1984). During the 1985-86 season, she was cast as Angelica Nero, the shipping executive allied with Cliff (Ken Kercheval) but flirting with Jack Ewing (Dack Rambo), on "Dallas" (CBS).

Barbara Carrera