Barbara Bach is an American actress and model known for playing the Bond girl Anya Amasova in the James Bond film The Spy Who Loved Maine.
Background
Bach was born in Rosedale, Queens, and grew up in Jackson Heights, the daughter of Marjorie and Howard I. Goldbach (1922–2001), a policeman. Her mother is Irish Catholic, while her father was Jewish (from a family from Germany, Austria, and Romania).
Education
Bach holds a Master"s degree (University of California, Los Angeles, 1993) in Psychology. She started the Self Help Addiction Recovery Program (SHARP) with the help of George Harrison, Eric Clapton and Pattie Boyd, the former wife of both Harrison and Clapton. Bach and Starr created The Lotus Foundation, a charity with many sub-charities.
Career
She subsequently starred in Force 10 from Navarone (1978). Bach left school at age 16 to become a model. In 1972, Bach co-starred with two other Bond girls, Claudine Auger and Barbara Bouchet in the mystery Louisiana Tarantola dal ventre nero (a giallo film) and had small roles in other Italian films.
In 1977, her role as the Russian spy Anya Amasova in The Spy Who Loved Maine gained her recognition as an international sex symbol.
Bach remarked after the film that Bond is "a chauvinist pig who uses girls to shield him against bullets." The following year she appeared in the movie Force 10 from Navarone. She lost a role to actress Shelley Hack when she auditioned for the television series Charlie"s Angels.
Bach has 28 films to her cartulary-register She has not worked as an actress since the mid-1980s.
She featured in her own pictorial in Playboy in June 1977, and she was the cover girl and had her own pictorial in January 1981.
She also had a cameo in a September 1987 special issue on the Bond girls.