Trivia

Claims to have turned down the title role in Octopussy (1983) with Roger Moore as James Bond, because she wanted to work with Sean Connery, who was returning as James Bond after 12 years, in Jamais plus jamais (1983).

Changed her surname from "Kingsbury" to "Carrera" when embarking upon a career in show business. In a 2004 interview with the Daily Mail in the United Kingdom, she expressed that the reasons for changing her surname were due to not being satisfied with herself and her looks during adolescence.

Parents are Louis Kingsbury and Florencia Carrera; they separated when she was seven years old. She has one older half-sister: Maisie Kingsbury.

When the crime drama J'aurai ta peau (1982) was made and released, the role of Dr. Charlotte Bennett was her favorite role to date. She modeled the role on film noir femme fatales such as Bette Davis in L'insoumise (1938) and Barbara Stanwyck in Assurance sur la mort (1944).

Dated Alexander Godunov, Ryan O'Neal, Richard Gere, Robert Evans, Robert De Niro and Greek shipping heir Philippe Niarchos.

Is also an artist and her celebrity portraits were exhibited at the Hollywood Entertainment Museum in April-May 2002.

Best known by the public for her roles as assassin Fatima Blush in the James Bond film Jamais plus jamais (1983), and as the diabolical Angelica Nero on the primetime soap opera Dallas (1978).

She was considered for the title role in Les Yeux de Laura Mars (1978), but Faye Dunaway was cast instead because Barbara was not well-known enough to carry a picture on her own.

Moved to New York at age 16, where she would pursue a modeling career, guided by the designer Lilly Dache. Her exotic beauty brought her to the covers of more than 300 magazines, namely Vogue, Glamour, Harper's Bazaar, Playboy and Cosmopolitan, in America and abroad.

Attended the Saint Joseph Academy, a convent school in Memphis, Tennessee.

She was a model before becoming an actress and never had any issues with posing nude or performing nude in films. She posed nude in Playboy twice at the peak of her career: In 1977 to promote The Island of Dr Moreau that came out that year and again in 1982.

She and Bianca Jagger were in competition for a role in the film Roulette sandiniste (1983) but neither got a part.

A former model, she made her film debut playing - what else? - a fashion model in Portrait d'une enfant déchue (1970).

Born on the same date as Vernon Wells.