Barbara Carrera (born December 31, 1945) is a Nicaraguan-born American film and TV actress as well as a former model. She is known for her roles as Bond girl Fatima Blush in Never Say Never Again and Angelica Nero on the television series Dallas.
Carrera was born Barbara Kingsbury in San Carlos, Nicaragua. Her mother, Dona Florencia, was a Nicaraguan of European and Native ancestry, and her father, Louis Kingsbury, was a U.S. employee of the Amer...
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Barbara Carrera (born December 31, 1945) is a Nicaraguan-born American film and TV actress as well as a former model. She is known for her roles as Bond girl Fatima Blush in Never Say Never Again and Angelica Nero on the television series Dallas.
Carrera was born Barbara Kingsbury in San Carlos, Nicaragua. Her mother, Dona Florencia, was a Nicaraguan of European and Native ancestry, and her father, Louis Kingsbury, was a U.S. employee of the American embassy in Nicaragua. There is some uncertainty regarding her year of birth, which some sources give as 1947 or 1951, but most list 1945. She apparently prefers to say 1953. Carrera came to the U.S. at age ten and studied at the St. Joseph Academy in Memphis. She moved to New York at the age of fifteen.
Carrera began a career as a model at the Eileen Ford agency at the age of 17, at which point she changed her last name to her mother's maiden name, Carrera. In 1972, she appeared on the screen in a publicity role for the Chiquita bananas....
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