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18 Facts About Barbara Carrera

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Barbara Carrera starred in the films The Master Gunfighter ; Embryo ; The Island of Dr Moreau ; Condorman ; I, the Jury and Lone Wolf McQuade.

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Barbara Carrera is perhaps best remembered for her performance as SPECTRE assassin Fatima Blush in Never Say Never Again, for which Carrera was nominated for a Golden Globe Award.

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Barbara Carrera's mother, Florencia Carrera, was Nicaraguan, and her father, Louis Kingsbury, was an American who worked for the US embassy in Nicaragua.

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Sometime after the age of ten, Barbara Carrera moved to the United States to live with her father.

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Barbara Carrera moved to New York at the age of 15.

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Barbara Carrera has appeared on the pages and covers of such magazines as Vogue, Paris Match, Harper's Bazaar, and twice posed for Playboy.

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In 1976, Barbara Carrera earned her first Golden Globe nomination for her role in The Master Gunfighter.

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Barbara Carrera later played in such films as The Island of Dr Moreau, Lone Wolf McQuade, Condorman, Point of Impact, Tryst and Embryo.

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Barbara Carrera worked opposite Laurence Olivier in Wild Geese II the following year.

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On television, Barbara Carrera played a part in the soap opera Dallas as Angelica Nero, and more prominently, in the historical miniseries Centennial in 1978 and Masada in 1981.

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Barbara Carrera starred as Emma Forsayth in the miniseries Emma: Queen of the South Seas in 1988.

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Barbara Carrera appeared with fellow "Bond Girls" Maude Adams and Kristina Wayborn in That '70s Show episode "The First Time" as bridesmaids for another former Bond Girl, Tanya Roberts, in the role of Midge Pinciotti.

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Since Paradise, Barbara Carrera has not appeared in films or television.

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In 1989, Barbara Carrera starred with Bette Davis in Wicked Stepmother, Davis's final film role.

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In 1997, Barbara Carrera was appointed Ambassador-at-Large for Nicaragua by then-president Arnoldo Aleman.

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Barbara Carrera is a painter and her work has been showcased in the Makk Galleries, with Americo Makk, in Beverly Hills, California since the 1980s, and the Roy Miles Gallery in London, England.

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Barbara Carrera has been married and divorced three times, her spouses being:.

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Between marriages, Barbara Carrera dated Robert De Niro, Robert Evans, Alexander Godunov, Philip Niarchos, Richard Gere and Ryan O'Neal.