Barbara Bach Biography

Barbara Bach (born Barbara Goldbach; August 27, 1947) is an American actress and model known for playing the Bond girl Anya Amasova in the James Bond film The Spy Who Loved Me (1977). She subsequently starred in Force 10 from Navarone (1978) with Robert Shaw and Harrison Ford. She is married to former Beatle Ringo Starr.

Early life

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). She attended a Catholic high school, Dominican Commercial, in Jamaica, Queens. Bach left school at age 16 to become a model.

Career

In 1972, Bach co-starred with two other Bond girls, Claudine Auger and Barbara Bouchet in the mystery La 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 Me 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 credit. 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.

Personal life

Family

Bach met Italian businessman Augusto Gregorini on a flight to Rome in 1966. They were married in 1968 and moved to Italy where they had a daughter, singer-songwriter Francesca Gregorini (born August 7, 1968) and a son Gianni (born in 1972). In 1975, Bach separated from Gregorini and moved back to the United States with her two children.

Bach met Ringo Starr on the set of the film Caveman in February 1980, and they were married on April 27, 1981, a few weeks after the film's release. In recent years, Bach has accompanied Starr on his tours and has appeared in some of his music videos, playing on some of his songs. They live in the English village of Cranleigh.

Joe Walsh, guitarist with the bands the James Gang and the Eagles, married Barbara Bach's sister, Marjorie Bach, in Los Angeles on December 13, 2008.

Rehabilitation

In October 1988, Bach and Starr attended a detox clinic in Tucson, Arizona, each receiving a six-week treatment for alcoholism.

Education

Bach holds a Master's degree (UCLA, 1993) in Psychology. She started the Self Help Addiction Recovery Program (S.H.A.R.P.) 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.

Vegetarianism

Barbara Bach, along with her husband Ringo, is vegetarian.

Filmography

Year	Title	Role
1968	L'Odissea (a.k.a. The Adventures of Ulysses)	Nausicaa
1971	Mio padre Monsignore	Chiara
	La Tarantola dal ventre nero (a.k.a. Black Belly of the Tarantula)	Jenny
	La Corta notte delle bambole di vetro (a.k.a. Paralyzed / Short Night of Glass Dolls)	Mira Svoboda
	Un peu de soleil dans l'eau froide (a.k.a. A Few Hours of Sunlight / A Little Sun in Cold Water)	Hlose/Elvire
1972	I Predatori si muovono all'alba	Helen
1973	Paolo il caldo (a.k.a. The Sensual Man / The Sensuous Sicilian)	Anna
	Il maschio ruspante	Rema
	L' Ultima chance (a.k.a. Stateline Motel / Last Chance / Motel of Fear)	Emily
1974	Il Cittadino si ribella (a.k.a. Street Law / The Citizen Rebels)	Barbara
1975	Il Lupo dei mari (a.k.a. Legend of the Sea Wolf / Larsen, Wolf of the Seven Seas)	Maud Brewster
1977	Ecco noi per esempio	Ludovica
	The Spy Who Loved Me	Anya Amasova
1978	Force 10 from Navarone	Maritza Petrovich
1979	L' Isola degli uomini pesce (a.k.a. Island of the Fishmen / Screamers)	Amanda Marvin
	L' Umanoide (a.k.a. The Humanoid)	Lady Agatha
	Jaguar Lives	Anna Thompson
	Il Fiume del grande caimano (a.k.a. Alligators / The Big Alligator River / The Great Alligator)	Alice Brandt
1980	Up the Academy	Bliss
1981	Caveman	Lana
	The Unseen	Jennifer Fast
1982	The Cooler
1983	Princess Daisy	Vanessa Valerian
1984	Give My Regards to Broad Street	Journalist
1986	To the North of Katmandu