Biographie

Was separated from second husband Warren Cowan in 1969 at the time she learned of first husband Jeffrey Hunter's sudden death following brain surgery after falling down a flight of stairs.

As of May 1997 resided in the Harold Lloyd estate in Beverly Hills, CA, where her next-door neighbor was David Geffen.

Is mentioned in Shampoo (1975), when hairdresser Warren Beatty says, "I do Barbara Rush's hair".

Attended and graduated from the University of California, Santa Barbara, in 1948.

Along with Leonard Nimoy, David McCallum, Cliff Robertson and Peter Breck, she is one of only five actors to appear in both Au-delà du réel (1963) and Au-delà du réel - l'aventure continue (1995) and the only woman to do so. She played Leonora Edmond in The Forms of Things Unknown (1964) and Barbara Matheson in The Balance of Nature (1998). She was the last survivor of the five actors.