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Barbara Bach, Lady Starkey (born Barbara Goldbach; August 27, 1946 or 1947)[lower-alpha 1] is an American actress and model. She played the Bond girl Anya Amasova in The Spy Who Loved Me. She is married to former Beatles drummer Ringo Starr.

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Barbara Bach
Bach in 1978
Born	Barbara Goldbach New York City, New York, U.S.
Occupation	Actress, model
Years active	1965–present
Spouse(s)	Count Augusto Gregorini ​ ​ (m. 1966; div. 1975)​ Ringo Starr ​ ​ (m. 1981)​
Children	2, including Francesca Gregorini

Early life

Barbara Goldbach was born in the Queens neighborhood of Rosedale in New York City, to Howard Irwin Goldbach, a police officer of Austrian Jewish heritage, and Marjorie Mary Goldbach (née McKnight), a homemaker of Irish ancestry.[3] She is the second of four children, with one younger sister, one younger brother, and one elder brother.[3]

She was raised Roman Catholic,[2] and in 1964, graduated from Dominican Commercial High School, an all-girls Catholic school in Queens.[4] The following year, she shortened her surname to Bach and began modeling professionally, appearing in catalogs and fashion magazines.

Career

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 (1965 and 1966), Vogue USA (July 1966) photographed by Richard Avedon, ELLE France (1966), Gioia Italy (1967–1970), and Figurino Brazil (1970).^{[citation needed]}

Her 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 1971, Bach co-starred with two other Bond girls, Claudine Auger and Barbara Bouchet, in the mystery Black Belly of the Tarantula (a giallo film) and appeared in other Italian films.^{[citation needed]}

In 1977, Bach portrayed the Russian spy Anya Amasova in the James Bond film The Spy Who Loved Me. Bach remarked after the film that Bond is "a chauvinist pig who uses girls to shield him against bullets."[5] The following year she appeared in the movie Force 10 from Navarone. She lost a role to actress Shelley Hack when she auditioned for season four of the television series Charlie's Angels.[6] During an interview with Johnny Carson on May 9, 1979, she said that she lost the audition for Charlie's Angels because they felt she was too sophisticated in attitude and look, and thought that she was not American, even though she was born in Rosedale and grew up in Jackson Heights, both in Queens, New York City. They asked her manager if she could play an American.[7]

Bach has 28 films to her credit. She was featured in a pictorial in Playboy in January 1981. She also had a cameo in a September 1987 special issue on the Bond girls.^{[citation needed]}

Charity work

In 1991, Bach co-founded the Self Help Addiction Recovery Program (SHARP) with Pattie Boyd, the former wife of George Harrison and Eric Clapton,[8] both of whom assisted in the venture.[9] Bach and Ringo Starr created The Lotus Foundation, a charity with many sub-charities.^{[citation needed]}

Personal life

Bach's first marriage was to Italian businessman Augusto, Count Gregorini di Savignano di Romagna. The couple had two children together, daughter Francesca and son Gianni, before divorcing in 1975.[6] Bach married British musician Ringo Starr, formerly of the Beatles, at Marylebone Town Hall on April 27, 1981.[10][11] The two met in 1980, on the set of the film Caveman (1981).[6]

Bach struggled with alcoholism and heavy drug use and, along with her husband, checked into a rehab in 1988 for four weeks. The couple have remained sober ever since.[12]

According to the International Vegetarian Union, Bach and Starr practice vegetarianism.[13]

She is fluent in Italian and has a working knowledge of French and Spanish.[7]

Filmography

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1968	Odissea	Nausicaa
1971	Mio padre Monsignore	Chiara
	The Black Belly of the Tarantula	Jenny
	Short Night of Glass Dolls	Mira Svoboda
	A Few Hours of Sunlight	Héloïse / Elvire
1973	The Sensual Man	Anna
	Il maschio ruspante	Rema
	Stateline Motel	Emily
1974	Street Law	Barbara
1975	Legend of the Sea Wolf	Maud Brewster
1977	Ecco noi per esempio	Ludovica
	The Spy Who Loved Me	Major Anya Amasova
1978	Force 10 from Navarone	Maritza Petrovich
1979	Island of the Fishmen	Amanda Marvin
	The Humanoid	Lady Agatha
	Jaguar Lives!	Anna Thompson
	The Great Alligator River	Alice Brandt
1980	Up the Academy	Bliss
1981	Caveman	Lana
	The Unseen	Jennifer Fast
1983	Princess Daisy	Vanessa Valerian
1984	Give My Regards to Broad Street	Journalist	Cameo
1986	To the North of Katmandu	Polo Player	Cameo

Notes

References

Sources

• Willis, John; Monush, Barry (1998). Screen World 1997. New York City, New York: Applause Books. ISBN 978-1-557-83320-4.

External links

• Barbara Bach at IMDb

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[de] Barbara Bach

Barbara Bach (* 27. August 1947 in Queens, New York; eigentlich Barbara Goldbach) ist eine ehemalige US-amerikanische Schauspielerin und ehemaliges Model.

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- [en] Barbara Bach

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[es] Barbara Bach

Barbara Ann Goldbach (Queens, Nueva York, 27 de agosto de 1947), conocida artísticamente como Barbara Bach, es una modelo y actriz estadounidense con ascendencia europea. Fue la chica Bond de la película La espía que me amó. Está casada con quien fue baterista de The Beatles, Ringo Starr.

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[ru] Бах, Барбара

Барбара Бах, леди Старки (англ. Barbara Bach, Lady Starkey, при рождении Гольдбах (англ. Goldbach); род. 27 августа 1947 года, Куинс, Нью-Йорк, США) — американская актриса и модель. Исполнила роль девушки Джеймса Бонда в фильме «Шпион, который меня любил». Жена Ринго Старра, барабанщика группы The Beatles.

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