Born on Dec 31, 1951 in Managua, Nicaragua. Reportedly 5' 6".

It's a common perception that models in general are not the sharpest knives in the drawer. This may or may not be true, but some are at least perceptive enough to know they're in an industry that will in all likelihood will have little use for them by the time they're thirty, and take steps to have another career ready once the modeling ride ends. The trouble is that so many of these more perceptive models turn to acting as their new rock, the reasoning being that modeling is in many ways like acting, and actors, apart from being more respected than models, can often work until they die. Paulina Porizkova, Elle, Laetitia Casta — they all try, and some, like Uma Thurman, have even met with some success, but it's not for their acting that they're remembered, and the formula “modeling = acting” yet to be convincingly demonstrated.

Still, 80s sex icon Barbara Carrera made a pretty good run of it. She was a Nicaraguan model (although there was some talk that she was in fact Puerto Rican) who made a big splash in the fashion industry at 17 before moving on to Hollywood through a series of Chiquita Banana commercials and finally Puzzle of a Downfall Child (1970). Between her darkly feline look, aloof manner, and hard-to-pin-down-but-educated-sounding anglo-euro accent (she spoke five languages), Barbara managed to build a career playing intelligent — if mostly ornamental — seductresses and damsels in distress, most famously as Bond Girl “Fatima Blush” in Never Say Never Again (1983). Unfortunately, the demand for good-looking women in their forties and older is generally less pronounced than for good-looking women in their thirties, and Barbara, while she continues to work in film even to this day, for the most part dropped off the Hollywood radar once the 80s came to a close.

Also sprach Golem.

Film

• Paradise (2003) .... Katherine Hiller
• Panic (2001) .... Burnadette
• Coo Coo Cafe (2000)
• Alec to the Rescue (1999)
• Illusion Infinity (1998)
• Waking Up Horton (1998; aka “The Adventures of Young Brave”) .... Isadora
• Love Is All There Is (1996) .... Maria Malacici
• Night of the Archer (1994) .... Victoria de Fleury
• Fortune Hunter: “Countdown” (1994) .... President Isabella Duarte
• Tryst (1994) .... Julia
• Point of Impact (1993) .... Eva Largo
• Wicked Stepmother (1989) .... Priscilla
• Loverboy (1989) .... Alex Barnett
• Love at Stake (1987) .... Faith Stewart
• The Underachievers (1987) .... Katherine
• Wild Geese II (1985) .... Kathy Lukas
• Never Say Never Again (1983) .... Fatima
• Lone Wolf McQuade (1983) .... Lola Richardson
• Playboy Video Magazine, Volume 1 (1982) .... Herself
• I, the Jury (1982) .... Dr. Charlotte Bennett
• Condorman (1981) .... Natalia
• When Time Ran Out... (1980) .... Iolani
• The Island of Dr. Moreau (1977) .... Maria
• Embryo (1976) .... Victoria
• The Master Gunfighter (1975) .... Eula
• Puzzle of a Downfall Child (1970) .... T.J. Brady

• Sawbones (1995; Showtime) .... Rita Baldwin

• The Rockford Files: Godfather Knows Best (1996) .... Elizabetta Fama
• Lakota Moon (1992)
• Murder in Paradise (1990) .... Emma Danton
• Sins of the Past (1984) .... Terry Halloran

• Emma: Queen of the South Seas (1988) .... Emma
• Masada (1981; nudity added later for video) .... Sheva
• Centennial (1978-1979) .... Clay Basket

• That '70s Show: “The First Time” (2/14/2000) .... Barbara
• JAG: “Going After Francesca” (10/13/1998) .... Marcella Paretti
• Dallas (1985-1989) .... Angelica Nero

Cyber Temples

• Barbara Carrera Nude Celebrity Movie Reviews
  Mr. Skin
  Bio, filmography, and nude stills from her films

Miscellaneous

• Barbara Carrera Filmography
  Internet Movie Database
  Always up-to-date filmography
• Barbara Carrera
  Wikipedia
  Barbara Carrera in wikireality