Barbara Bach
Born
August 27, 1947 (77 years old)
Known For
Acting
Place of Birth
Queens, New York USA
Barbara Ann Goldbach (born August 27, 1947) is an American actress and model. She was born to Howard and Marjorie Goldbach in Queens, New York. Her father was a policeman. Barbara is the oldest of five children. She met her first husband Augusto Gregorini in New York while she worked as a model and he was visiting from Italy for a business trip in 1966. Barbara followed him to Italy to be with him. In 1968, they married. They had two children, Francesca (b. 1969) and Gian Andrea (b. 1972). During Gianni's birth, he had the umbilical cord wrapped around his neck, nearly choking him, and was diagnosed with cerebral palsy, although a later operation improved his condition.
While in Italy, Barbara began her acting career, starting with the TV mini-series Odissea in 1968, where she was billed as Barbara Gregorini. Other roles followed in the giallo / horror films Black Belly of the Tarantula and Short Night of the Glass Dolls in 1971, the crime-thrillers Stateline Motel (1973) and Street Law (1974) and other films. In 1975, Barbara and Augusto Gregorini separated when she moved to Los Angeles, California to further her career. The couple would divorce in 1978 and share custody of their two children. As that was going on, Barbara received her most famous role as Russian secret agent Major Anya Amasova / Agent XXX in The Spy Who Loved Me (1977). She returned to Italian cinema in the late 70s for a supporting role in the sci-fi film The Humanoid (1979), starring roles in the horror films The Great Alligator and Screamers (1979) and more, which earned her the "Queen of the B Movies" label by some in the press. In 1979, Barbara was in consideration for the Tiffany Welles role, a replacement for Kate Jackson's character, in Charlie's Angels but ultimately lost out to Shelley Hack due to being deemed too attractive for the role. She then appeared in the comedy Up the Academy (1980), produced by her then-boyfriend Danton Rissner, and played a menaced TV reporter in the sleazy horror film The Unseen (1980).
The following year, Barbara met Ringo Starr on the set of Caveman (1981) in 1980, and they became a couple during the filming. Ringo and Barbara were on a holiday in December 1980 when her daughter called to inform them that John Lennon had been shot. Ringo and Barbara went to New York to console Yoko Ono and Sean Lennon. Ringo and Barbara married on April 27, 1981. By their own admission, the couple pretty much partied the 80s away and both entered a rehab clinic in Tucson, Arizona to straighten their lives out in 1988. By then, Barbara's show business career was over. She has since received her Master's degree in psychology from UCLA and focuses on charity work.
(Biography By: Jeannette, Pedro and Justin)
Known For

Top Gear: 50 Years of Bond Cars
Self
2012

Celebrity Nude Revue: The Saucy 70's Volume 1
2010

007 Stage Dedication
2006

The 50 Worst Movies Ever Made
Alice Brandt (archive footage)
2004
Best Ever Bond
Major Anya Amasova / Agent XXX (archive footage) (uncredited)
2002

Bond Girls Are Forever
Major Anya Amasova,'The Spy Who Loved Me' (archive footage)
2002

Tribute to Desmond Llewelyn
Anya Amasova (archive footage) (uncredited)
2000

One More Audience with Dame Edna Everage
Self (uncredited)
1988

An Audience with Billy Connolly
Self
1985

Give My Regards to Broad Street
Journalist
1984

Princess Daisy
Vanessa Valerian · (2 episodes)
1983

The Cooler
Head Prison Camp (uncredited)
1982

Caveman
Lana
1981

The Queen Special
Self
1980

The Unseen
Jennifer Fast
1980

Up the Academy
Bliss
1980
Okay
Self · (1 episode)
1979

The Great Alligator
Alice Brandt
1979

Jaguar Lives!
Anna Thompson
1979

The Humanoid
Lady Agatha
1979

Island of the Fishmen
Amanda Marvin
1979

Force 10 from Navarone
Maritza
1978

Here We for Example...
Ludovica
1977

The Making of 'The Spy Who Loved Me'
Self
1977

The Spy Who Loved Me
Major Anya Amasova
1977

Saturday Night Live
Self - Cameo (uncredited) · (1 episode)
1975

Legend of the Sea Wolf
Maud Brewster
1975

Street Law
Barbara
1974

The Sensual Man
Anna, nipote del farmacista
1973

Stateline Motel
Emily
1973

Il maschio ruspante
Rema
1973

A Little Sun in Cold Water
Héloïse / Elvire
1971

Short Night of Glass Dolls
Mira Svoboda
1971

The Black Belly of the Tarantula
Jenny
1971

My Father Monsignor
Chiara
1971

Odissea
Nausicaa
1968

The Odyssey
Nausicaa · (8 episodes)
1968