Barbara Leigh

Barbara Leigh (born Barbara Ann Kish; November 16, 1946) is a former American actress and fashion model. Her breakthrough role came in 1972 with the film Junior Bonner, in which she starred alongside her then-boyfriend Steve McQueen. She became the first model to wear the Vampirella costume on the cover of the original Warren Publishing Vampirella magazine, #67 (March 1975).

Early life Barbara Leigh was born in Ringgold, Georgia. Leigh married at age 15. At the age of 17, she gave birth to her first son, Finley Gerald "Gerry" Haynes Jr. on July 8, 1964, in Tennessee. He died on February 20, 1994, in Riverside, California at age 29. Her second child Tony Haynes was born in 1967 and died a few hours after he was born.

Career She starred in two films for director Stephanie Rothman, The Student Nurses and Terminal Island.

In 2002, she published a memoir titled The King, McQueen, and The Love Machine , which accounts for her romances with McQueen, Elvis Presley, and Jim Aubrey in the early 1970s.

In January 2014, Leigh retired from Playboy Enterprises Inc. after working with the company for almost 17 years.

She developed hyperthyroidism (Graves' disease) and has been a spokeswoman for the National Graves' Disease Foundation.

Filmography Year Title Role Notes1969 The Ballad of Andy Crocker Mia 1970 The Most Deadly Game Karen TV series: 1 Episode 1970 The Student Nurses Priscilla 1971 Pretty Maids All in a Row Jean McDrew 1971 The Christian Licorice Store 1st Starlet 1972 Junior Bonner Charmagne 1973 Terminal Island Bunny 1973 The President's Plane is Missing WAF TV movie 1974 Smile Jenny, You’re Dead Mildred TV movie 1975 Boss Nigger Miss Pruitt 1975 Baretta Karen Dennsion TV series: 1 Episode 1975 Harry O Gina TV series: 2 episodes 1978 The Rockford Files Sylvia TV series: 1 Episode 1978 CHiPs Paula TV series: 1 Episode 1978 The Incredible Hulk June Tobey TV series: 1 Episode 1979 Swim Team Mrs. Mandrake, the Biorhythms Coach 1979 Seven Alexa 1979 Mistress of the Apes Laura