Where Are They Now - Friday, March 27, 2015

Hello fans,

Well, it's spring in Chicago, which means it's been chilly and gloomy all week long! We even got a couple more inches of snow last weekend...guess I put the snow boots away too quickly.

This week we are catching up with actress Barbara Carrera who is known for her roles in Never Say Never Again and the soap opera Dallas.

Take care,
Melissa

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--DEAD OR ALIVE?--
See if you know if the following celebrities have had a visit from the "Grim Reaper":

Chuck Mangione: Jazz musician, known for playing the flugelhorn and the trumpet

Tiny Tim: Ukelele-playing, falsetto-singing icon of the 1960s known for his signature song "Tiptoe Through the Tulips"

Roberta Flack: Singer, "The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face", "Killing Me Softly"

(Answer at the bottom)
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Barbara Carrera

Learn More About Barbara Carrera on Celebrity Nooz

BIRTH DATE: December 31, 1945, San Carlos, Río San Juan, Nicaragua

BIRTH NAME: Barbara Kingsbury.

CLAIM TO FAME: She is best known for her roles as Bond girl Fatima Blush in Never Say Never Again and as Angelica Nero on the soap opera Dallas.

FAMILY LIFE: She has been married three times. First, to German nobleman Otto Kurt Freiherr von Hoffman form 1966 to 1972. Next, she was married to German fashion model and actor Uva Harden from 1972-1976. She was then married to Greek shipping magnate Nicholas Mark Mavroleon.

INFO: Her career began as a model at the Eileen Ford Agency at the age of 17. Her first film role was as a fashion model in Puzzle of a Downfall Child (1970).

She earned a Golden Globe nomination in 1976 for her role in the 1976 film The Master Gunfighter. In 1984, she earned another Golden Globe nomination, this time for her portrayal of the villainess Fatima Blush in the James Bond film Never Say Never Again.

She played Angelica Nero in the soap opera Dallas. She also appeared in the historical miniseries Centennial in 1978 and Masada in 1981.She also starred as Emma Forsayth in the miniseries Emma: Queen of the South Seas in 1988.

TRIVIA: Had at least one elder half-sibling, a sister, Maisie Kingsbury.

Has appeared on the pages and covers of such magazines as Vogue, Paris Match, Harper's Bazaar, and twice posed for Playboy (July 1973 and March 1982).

In 1997, she was appointed ambassador-at-large for Nicaragua by then-president Arnoldo Aleman.

Attended the Saint Joseph Academy, a convent school in Memphis, Tennessee.

Changed her last name from "Kingsbury" to "Carrera" when embarking upon a career in show business.

WHERE IS SHE NOW: Carrera hasn't acted since 2004. She is an artist and her work has been showcased in the Makk Galleries in Beverly Hills, California since the 1980s, and the Roy Miles Gallery in London, England. Some of her works have been sold for up to $8,000.

WRITE TO BARBARA CARRERA:
Barbara Carrera
P.O. Box 7631
Beverly Hills, CA 90212-7631

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CREDITS:

2004 Illusion Infinity...Katherine

2004 Judging Amy (TV Series)...Francesca Messina
- My Little Runaway (2004)
- Baggage Claim (2004)

2002 Panic...Bernadette

2000 Coo Coo Cafe

2000 That '70s Show (TV Series)...Barbara
- The First Time (2000)

1999 Alec to the Rescue...Madam Wong

1998 Waking Up Horton...Isadora

1998 JAG (TV Series)...Marcella Paretti
- Going After Francesca (1998)

1996 Love Is All There Is...Maria Malacici

1996 The Rockford Files: Godfather Knows Best (TV Movie)...Elizabetta Fama

1995 Russian Roulette - Moscow 95

1995 Sawbones (TV Movie)...Rita Baldwin

1994 Night of the Archer...Victoria de Fleury

1994 Tryst...Julia

1994 Fortune Hunter (TV Series)...President Isabella Duarte
- Countdown (1994)

1993 Point of Impact...Eva Largo

1992 Lakota Moon (TV Movie)...Still Water

1990 Murder in Paradise (TV Movie)...Emma Danton

1989 Loverboy...Alex Barnett

1989 Wicked Stepmother...Priscilla

1988 Emma: Queen of the South Seas (TV Mini-Series)...Emma Coe

1987 The Underachievers...Katherine

1987 Love at Stake...Faith Stewart

1987 The New Mike Hammer (TV Series)...Claire Morgan
- Lady Killer (1987)

1985-1986 Dallas (TV Series)...Angelica Nero

1985 Wild Geese II...Kathy Lukas

1984 Sins of the Past (TV Movie)...Terry Halloran

1983 Never Say Never Again...Fatima

1983 Lone Wolf McQuade...Lola Richardson

1982 Matt Houston (TV Series)...Serena Gambacci
- X-22 (1982)

1982 I, the Jury...Dr. Charlotte Bennett

1981 Condorman...Natalia

1981 Masada (TV Mini-Series)...Sheva

1980 When Time Ran Out...Iolani

1978-1979 Centennial (TV Mini-Series)...Clay Basket

1977 The Island of Dr. Moreau...Maria

1976 Embryo...Victoria Spencer

1975 The Master Gunfighter...Eula

1970 Puzzle of a Downfall Child...T.J. Brady

To see Then & Now pictures of Barbara Carrera, visit: Celebrity Nooz

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--Answers to DEAD OR ALIVE--
Chuck Mangione - ALIVE
Born: 11/29/1940

Tiny Tim - DEAD (Heart attack)
Born: 04/12/1932 Died: 11/30/1996

Roberta Flack - ALIVE
Born: 02/10/1939

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WHO PASSED ON THIS WEEK...
3/25
George Fischbeck, 92, American television weatherman (KABC-TV).

3/24
Yehuda Avner, 86, Israeli diplomat, ambassador to Australia and the United Kingdom, cancer.
Richard Butson, 92, Canadian explorer and physician, recipient of the George Cross.
Scott Clendenin, 47, American bassist (Death, Control Denied).
Moncef Ben Salem, 62, Tunisian politician.
Notable people killed in the crash of Germanwings Flight 9525:
Oleg Bryzhak, 54, Kazakh-born German opera singer.
Maria Radner, 34, German opera singer.

3/23
Mahdi Abdul-Zahra, 19, Iraqi footballer, car bomb.
Roy Douglas, 107, British composer.
Earl Harris, 73, American politician, member of the Indiana House of Representatives (since 1982).
Herberto Helder, 84, Portuguese poet.
Lee Kuan Yew, 91, Singaporean politician, Prime Minister (1959-1990), pneumonia.
Ted Lester, 92, English cricket player (Yorkshire).
Lil' Chris, 24, British singer-songwriter, actor and television personality.
Bobby Lowther, 91, American basketball player and athlete (LSU Tigers), All-American (1946).
Nick Peters, 75, American journalist (Sacramento Bee) and baseball beat writer (San Francisco Giants), recipient of the J. G. Taylor Spink Award (2009).
Alan Seymour, 87, Australian playwright (The One Day of the Year).
Geoff Tunbridge, 82, Australian VFL football player (Melbourne).
Warren Womble, 95, American basketball coach.

3/22
Luis Abreu (es), 67, Venezuelan actor and playwright, heart attack.
Arkady Arkanov, 81, Russian writer and satirist.
Horst Buhtz, 91, German football player (Torino) and manager.
William Campbell, 79, American politician, member of the California Senate (1976-1990) and Assembly (1966-1974).
Derek Chinnery, 89, English radio controller (BBC Radio 1).
Cláudio Marzo (pt), 74, Brazilian actor, pneumonia.
Peter Pistanek, 54, Slovak writer, suicide.
Norman Scribner, 79, American choral conductor.
Julieta Marín Torres, 71, Mexican politician, MP for Puebla (2009-2012), lung cancer.

3/21
Perro Aguayo Jr., 35, Mexican professional wrestler, stroke from vertebral artery dissection.
Moncho Alpuente (es), 65, Spanish journalist, writer and musician.
Ishaya Bakut, 67, Nigerian military Governor of Benue State (1986-1987).
Chuck Bednarik, 89, American NFL Hall of Fame football player (Philadelphia Eagles).
James C. Binnicker, 76, American air force officer, Chief Master Sergeant (1986-1990).
Betty Brey, 83, American Olympic swimmer (1956), heart attack.
Milen Dobrev, 35, Bulgarian weightlifter, Olympic gold medalist (2004), heart attack.
Hans Erni, 106, Swiss painter, designer and sculptor.
Jack Ford, 67, American politician, Mayor of Toledo, Ohio (2002-2005).
Malachy John Goltok, 49, Nigerian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Bauchi (since 2011).
Jørgen Ingmann, 89, Danish musician ("Apache"), 1963 Eurovision Song Contest winner.
Yusufali Kechery, 81, Indian poet and film producer.
Vince Kendrick, 63, American football player (Atlanta Falcons), cancer.
Arnost Klimcik, 69, Czechoslovak Olympic handball player (1972).
Jack W. Peltason, 91, American scholar, President of the University of California (1992-1995), Parkinson's disease.
Thomas Scallen, 89, American businessman.
Sir James Spicer, 89, British politician, MP for West Dorset (1974-1997).
Bele Tabalala, 32, Fijian rugby union player.
Jackie Trent, 74, English singer-songwriter and actress.
Alberta Watson, 60, Canadian actress (La Femme Nikita, 24, The Sweet Hereafter), cancer.

3/20
Jim Berry, 83, American cartoonist (Berry's World).
Eva Burrows, 85, Australian Salvation Army General (1986-1993).
María del Socorro Bustamante (es), 70, Colombian lawyer and politician, Senator (1994-2002).
Cincinnati Red, 40, American professional wrestler, heart attack.
A. James Clark, 87, American billionaire engineer, heart failure.
Lisa Colagrossi, 49, American news anchor (WABC), brain aneurysm.
Ellen Conford, 73, American children's writer, heart ailment.
Malcolm Fraser, 84, Australian politician, Prime Minister (1975-1983).
Walter Grauman, 93, American director (633 Squadron, Murder, She Wrote).
Harley Hisner, 88, American baseball player (Boston Red Sox).
Paul Jeffrey, 81, American jazz saxophonist.
Robert Kastenmeier, 91, American politician, member of United States House of Representatives from Wisconsin (1959-1991), heart failure.
Nugzar Mikeladze, 57, Russian-Georgian journalist, one of the founders of Novaya Gazeta, cancer.
Josef Mikolás, 77, Czech ice hockey player, world championship silver medalist (1961).
Steve Mokone, 82, South African footballer (Heracles Almelo).
Eddie Mulheron, 72, Scottish footballer (Clyde, Durban United)
A. J. Pero, 55, American drummer (Twisted Sister, Adrenaline Mob), heart attack.
Russell Pettigrew, 94, New Zealand businessman and sports administrator.
Shahir Krishnarao Sable, 92, Indian Marathi folk singer-songwriter.
Petr Vopenka, 79, Czech mathematician and politician.
Gregory Walcott, 87, American actor (Plan 9 from Outer Space, Norma Rae, Every Which Way but Loose).
Gerald Lee Warren, 84, American journalist, White House deputy press secretary.
Viktor Viktorovych Yanukovych, 33, Ukrainian politician, People's Deputy (2006-2014), drowned.

3/19
Margarete Bagshaw, 50, American artist, brain tumor.
Leandra Becerra Lumbreras, 127?, Mexican longevity claimant, unverified oldest living person.
Yosef Ben-Jochannan, 96, American writer and historian.
Michael Brown, 65, American musician (The Left Banke) and songwriter ("Walk Away Renée").
Gus Douglass, 88, American politician, West Virginia Commissioner of Agriculture (1965-1989, 1993-2013), fall.
Richard Gruenther, 90, American Olympic modern pentathlete (1948).
Gerda van der Kade-Koudijs, 91, Dutch sprint athlete, Olympic champion (1948).
Peter Katin, 84, British pianist.
Carlos Mijares Bracho, 84, Mexican architect.
Irma Palmieri, 83, Venezuelan film and television actress.
Providencia Paredes, 90, Dominican Republic political figure, personal assistant of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis.
Safet Plakalo, 65, Bosnian playwright and poet.
Stanislav Prýl, 72, Czech ice hockey player.
Danny Schechter, 72, American journalist and filmmaker.
Joy Tamblin, 89, British WRAF officer.
Eino Uusitalo, 90, Finnish politician, Deputy Prime Minister (1979-1982).
Matthew Wuest, 35, Canadian journalist, founder of CapGeek, colon cancer.

3/18
Samuel Charters, 85, American music historian and musician, myelodysplastic syndrome.
Chiang Chung-ling, 92, Taiwanese general and politician, Minister of Defense (1994-1999), heart failure.
Roy Doty, 92, American cartoonist and illustrator.
Harry Heijnen, 74, Dutch footballer (ADO, national team).
Thomas Hopko, 75, American Eastern Orthodox priest and theologian.
H. Allen Jerkens, 85, American horse trainer.
Grace Ogot, 84, Kenyan writer and politician.
Roberto Parga (es), 78, Uruguayan judge, member of the Supreme Court (2000-2007).
Galina Petrova (ru), 101, Russian ballet dancer, choreographer and teacher, Meritorious Artist, was Bolshoi Theatre's oldest ballerina.
Don Rowlands, 88, New Zealand rower.
Oleg Sakirkin, 49, Kazakh triple jumper.
Lyle E. Schaller, 91, American church consultant and writer.
Bernice Steadman, 89, American aviator, member of Mercury 13 team.
Shaw Taylor, 90, British actor and television presenter.
Zhao Dayu, 54, Chinese footballer (Guangzhou, national team), liver cancer.