Barbara Bach

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 a scene from Short Night of Glass Dolls (1971) 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." 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, daughter Francesca and son Gianni, 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 ==