Barbara Rush

Barbara Rush
Rush as part of the Peyton Place cast, 1969
Born	(1927-01-04) January 4, 1927 (age 90) Denver, Colorado, U.S.
Residence	Beverly Hills, California, U.S.
Nationality	American
Education	University of California, Santa Barbara (1948)
Occupation	Actress
Years active	1950–present
Home town	Santa Barbara, California, U.S.
Spouse(s)	Jeffrey Hunter (m. 1950–55) Warren Cowan (m. 1959–70) Jim Gruzalski (m. 1971–73)
Children	2; including Claudia Cowan
Awards	1954 Golden Globe Award for Most Promising Newcomer – Female 1970 Sarah Siddons Award

Barbara Rush (born January 4, 1927) is an American Golden Globe Award-winning movie and television actress. In 1954, Rush won the Golden Globe Award as most promising female newcomer for her role in the 1953 American black-and-white science fiction film, It Came From Outer Space. Later in her career, Rush became a regular performer in the television series Peyton Place, and appeared in television movies, miniseries, and a variety of other television shows, including the soap opera All My Children.

Rush was born in Denver. Her father, Roy, was a lawyer for a Midwest mining company. She grew up in Santa Barbara, California. She attended the University of California, Santa Barbara and graduated in 1948.

Rush performed on stage at the Pasadena Playhouse before signing with Paramount Pictures. She made her screen debut in 1951. In 1952 she starred in Flaming Feather with Sterling Hayden and Victor Jory. In 1954 she won the Golden Globe Award for "Most Promising Newcomer – Female" for her performance in It Came from Outer Space.

Rush starred as the wife of James Mason in the acclaimed 1956 drama Bigger Than Life, in which a school teacher's use of an experimental drug results in his threatening harm to his family. She was the love interest of reluctant soldier Dean Martin in the war story The Young Lions and of ambitious lawyer Paul Newman in The Young Philadelphians.