Angie Bowie
| Angie Bowie | |
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| Born |
Mary Angela Barnett September 25, 1949 Ayios Dhometios, Nicosia, Cyprus |
| Nationality | American |
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| Spouse(s) | David Bowie (m. 1970; div. 1980) |
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| Children | 2 |
Angela "Angie" Bowie (born Mary Angela Barnett; September 25, 1949) is an American model, actress and journalist who, along with her ex-husband David Bowie, influenced the glam rock culture and fashion of the 1970s, in part by demonstrating openness about personal bisexuality.
She was married to English singer David Bowie (whom she assisted in conceptualizing the costumes for the Ziggy Stardust stage show) from 1970 until their divorce in 1980. The couple had one child, film director Duncan Jones.
Angie Bowie was born as Mary Angela Barnett, an American citizen, on September 25, 1949 in Cyprus to Col. George M. Barnett, a United States Army veteran, and his wife, Helena Maria Galas Barnett, a naturalized Canadian. Her father was a mining engineer and ran a mill for Cyprus Mines Corporation. She has one brother, who is 16 years older than herself. Both her parents died in 1984.
She is of English and Polish descent, and she was brought up as a Roman Catholic. However, she has identified as a Cypriot, writing in 2000, "I am a Cypriot by disposition. I don't have a passport or Cypriot nationality but my heart is Cypriot, not Greek or Turkish Cypriot, just Cypriot."
Educated in Cyprus, Switzerland, and the UK (Kingston Polytechnic), she briefly attended Connecticut College until she was expelled after an affair with someone of the same sex, an event mentioned in her 1981 autobiography, Free Spirit.
During the 1970s, Angie Bowie occasionally appeared as a guest on television talk shows. She appeared on The Tonight Show, hosted by Johnny Carson on November 16, 1973. She also performed on The Mike Douglas Show in early 1975.
She auditioned for the leading role in what dates show to have been the ABC-TV television film Wonder Woman which aired on March 12, 1974, and starred Cathy Lee Crosby (not as often reported for the later television series Wonder Woman, in which the title role was played by Lynda Carter).Newsweek hypothesised in their February 11, 1974, issue that she lost the part because of her refusal to wear a bra.
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