Barbara Bach

Barbara Bach, Lady Starkey (née Goldbach; born August 27 or 28, 1946) is an American retired actress and model. She played the Bond girl Anya Amasova in The Spy Who Loved Me. She is married to former Beatles drummer Ringo Starr.

Early life Bach was born Barbara Goldbach in Queens to Marjorie (née McKnight) and Howard Goldbach. Her father was Jewish and of Austrian-Jewish descent, while her mother was a Catholic of Irish descent; Bach and her siblings were raised in their mother's Catholic faith. Her father, who had recently retired from the United States Military at the time of her birth, worked as a police officer for the New York City Police Department. The following year, she shortened her surname to Bach and began modeling professionally, appearing in catalogs and fashion magazines.

Career Bach was one of the most sought-after faces of the 1960s, working with the Eileen Ford Agency in New York, appearing on catalogs and the front covers of several international fashion magazines such as Seventeen (1965 and 1966), Vogue USA (July 1966) photographed by Richard Avedon, ELLE France (1966), Gioia Italy (1967–1970), and Figurino Brazil (1970).

Her acting career started in Italy, where she played Nausicaa in L'Odissea in 1968, an eight-hour long TV adaptation of Homer's epic poem The Odyssey, directed by Franco Rossi and produced by Dino de Laurentiis.

In 1971, Bach co-starred with two other Bond girls, Claudine Auger and Barbara Bouchet, in the mystery Black Belly of the Tarantula (a giallo film) and appeared in other Italian films.

In 1977, Bach portrayed the Russian spy Anya Amasova in the James Bond film The Spy Who Loved Me. 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 season four of the television series Charlie's Angels. During an interview with Johnny Carson on May 9, 1979, she said that she lost the audition for Charlie's Angels because they felt she was too sophisticated in attitude and look, and thought that she was not American, even though she was born in Rosedale and grew up in Jackson Heights, both in Queens, New York City. They asked her manager if she could play an American.

Bach has 28 films to her credit. She was featured in a pictorial in Playboy in January 1981. She also had a cameo in a September 1987 special issue on the Bond girls.

Charity work In 1991, Bach co-founded the Self Help Addiction Recovery Program (SHARP) with Pattie Boyd, the former wife of George Harrison and Eric Clapton, both of whom assisted in the venture. Bach and Ringo Starr created The Lotus Foundation, a charity with many sub-charities.

Personal life Bach's first marriage was to Italian aristocrat and businessman Augusto, Count Gregorini di Savignano di Romagna. The couple had two children together, including Francesca, before divorcing in 1975. The two met in 1980, on the set of the film Caveman (1981).

According to the International Vegetarian Union, Bach and Starr practice vegetarianism.

She is fluent in Italian and has a working knowledge of French and Spanish.

Filmography Year Title Role Notes 1968 Odissea Nausicaa 6 episodes 1971 Mio padre Monsignore Chiara The Black Belly of the Tarantula Jenny Short Night of Glass Dolls Mira Svoboda A Few Hours of Sunlight Héloïse / Elvire 1973 The Sensual Man Anna Il maschio ruspante Rema Stateline Motel Emily 1974 Street Law Barbara 1975 Legend of the Sea Wolf Maud Brewster 1977 Ecco noi per esempio Ludovica The Spy Who Loved Me Major Anya Amasova 1977 The Mask of Alexander Cross Agent Judson TV film 1978 Force 10 from Navarone Maritza Petrovich 1979 Island of the Fishmen Amanda Marvin The Humanoid Lady Agatha Jaguar Lives! Anna Thompson The Great Alligator River Alice Brandt 1980 Up the Academy Bliss 1981 Caveman Lana The Unseen Jennifer Fast 1983 Princess Daisy Vanessa Valerian 2 episodes 1984 Give My Regards to Broad Street Journalist Cameo 1986 To the North of Katmandu Polo Player Cameo