Barbara Carrera

Barbara Carrera is a Nicaraguan-born American actress and former model who began her career at the Eileen Ford modeling agency and took her mother's maiden name as her professional name. She first appeared on screen playing herself in Puzzle of a Downfall Child (1970). She earned a Golden Globe nomination as New Star of the Year for The Master Gunfighter, and a second for her role as the villainess Fatima Blush in Never Say Never Again (1983), a James Bond film. Her other films include The Island of Dr. Moreau (1977), Condorman (1981), I, the Jury (1982), Lone Wolf McQuade (1983) and Wicked Stepmother (1989), in which she starred with Bette Davis. On television she appeared in the miniseries Centennial and Masada and as Angelica Nero on Dallas, and she is also a painter whose work has been exhibited in Beverly Hills and London.