Barbara Bach
| Barbara Bach | |
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c. 1977
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| Born |
Barbara Goldbach August 27, 1947 Queens, New York, U.S. |
| Occupation | Actress & Model |
| Years active | 1965–1986 |
| Spouse(s) |
Augusto Gregorini (m. 1966; div. 1978) Ringo Starr (m. 1981) |
| Children | 2, including Francesca Gregorini |
Barbara Bach (born Barbara Goldbach; August 27, 1947) is an American actress and model who played the Bond girl Anya Amasova in the James Bond film The Spy Who Loved Me (1977) as well as the spy Maritza Petrović in Force 10 from Navarone (1978). She married Ringo Starr, former member of The Beatles, in 1981.
Bach was born in Rosedale, Queens, and grew up in Jackson Heights, the daughter of Marjorie (1920-) and Howard I. Goldbach (1922–2001), a policeman. Her mother is Irish Catholic, while her father was Jewish (from a family from Germany, Austria, and Romania).She graduated from the all-girl Dominican Commercial High School in Jamaica, Queens, New York in 1964.A year later, in 1965, she shortened her name to Bach and began a highly successful career as model posing for catalogs and fashion magazines. She is fluent in Italian and has a working knowledge of French and Spanish.
She was one the most sought-faces in the 60s working with the famed Eileen Ford Agency in NY, appearing on catalogs and the front covers of several international fashion magazines such as, “Seventeen" (1965 and 1966), or the cover of "Vogue" USA (July 1966) photographed by Richard Avedon, and the cover of "ELLE" France (1966), "Gioia" Italy (1967-1970), "Figurino" Brazil (1970).
Her acting career started in Italy, where she played Nausicaa in L'Odissea in 1968, an eight hours long TV adaptation of Homer's famous epic poem The Odyssey, directed by Franco Rossi and produced by Dino de Laurentiis.
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