14 Facts About Barbara Bach

Barbara Bach, Lady Starkey is an American actress and former model.

Barbara Bach played the Bond girl Anya Amasova in The Spy Who Loved Me.

Barbara Bach is married to former Beatles drummer Ringo Starr.

Barbara Bach graduated from Dominican Commercial High School, an all-girls school, in 1964.

Barbara Bach was one of the most sought-after faces of the 1960s, working with the Eileen Ford Agency in New York, appearing on catalogs and the front covers of several international fashion magazines such as Seventeen, Vogue USA photographed by Richard Avedon, ELLE France, Gioia Italy, and Figurino Brazil.

Barbara Bach's acting career started in Italy, where she played Nausicaa in L'Odissea in 1968, an eight-hour long TV adaptation of Homer's epic poem The Odyssey, directed by Franco Rossi and produced by Dino de Laurentiis.

In 1977, Barbara Bach portrayed the Russian spy Anya Amasova in the James Bond film The Spy Who Loved Me.

Barbara Bach lost a role to actress Shelley Hack when she auditioned for season four of the television series Charlie's Angels.

Barbara Bach was featured in a pictorial in Playboy in January 1981.

Barbara Bach had a cameo in a September 1987 special issue on the Bond girls.

In 1991, Barbara Bach co-founded the Self Help Addiction Recovery Program with Pattie Boyd, the former wife of George Harrison and Eric Clapton, both of whom assisted in the venture.

Barbara Bach married British musician Ringo Starr, formerly of the Beatles, at Marylebone Town Hall on April 27,1981.

Barbara Bach struggled with alcoholism and heavy drug use and, along with her husband, Ringo Starr, checked into a rehab in 1988 for four weeks.

Barbara Bach is fluent in Italian and has a working knowledge of French and Spanish.