Barbara Trentham
| Barbara Trentham | |
|---|---|
| Born |
August 27, 1944 Brooklyn, New York, U.S. |
| Died | August 2, 2013 (aged 68) Chicago, Illinois, U.S. |
| Cause of death | Leukaemia |
| Occupation | Actress, model, artist |
| Years active | 1972–1982 |
| Spouse(s) |
Giles Trentham (m. 1967; div. 1970) John Cleese (m. 1981; div. 1990) George Covington (m. 1998; her death 2013) |
Barbara Trentham (August 27, 1944 – August 2, 2013) was an American actress, whose notable film credits included the 1975 film, Rollerball. Trentham was also the second wife of John Cleese from 1981 to 1990.
She was born in 1944 in Brooklyn and moved with her parents as a child to Weston, Connecticut and graduated from Staples High School in Westport in 1962. She then attended the Mount Holyoke College in South Hadley, Massachusetts in 1966, where she graduated and then moved the same year to England to study at the Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art at the University of Oxford. At Oxford she met fellow student Giles Trentham; they married in 1967 and she retained his name after their divorce in 1970.
In the early 1970s Trentham worked as a model in London. Her photo appeared several times on the cover pages of British magazines including Seventeen and Vogue.
in 1972 she landed a supporting role alongside Shirley MacLaine, Perry King and David Elliott in Waris Hussein's horror thriller The Possession of Joel Delaney. She then moved to Los Angeles to pursue her acting career. She starred in Norman Jewison's science fiction classic Rollerball alongside James Caan, John Houseman, Maud Adams and John Beck. In 1976 she was seen in the action drama Sky Riders with James Coburn and Susannah York. In the same year she also had a cameo in the British-German television series The Girl from Outer Space with Pierre Brice. In 1978, she appeared in the produced-for-television horror film Wolf Moon and 1979 in an episode of the adventure series A Man Called Sloane.
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