Barbara Bach (born August 27, 1947) is an American actress and model, best-known as the Bond girl from the James Bond movie The Spy Who Loved Me (1977). She is married to musician Ringo Starr, former drummer of The Beatles.
Bach was born Barbara Goldbach in Queens, New York, the daughter of Marjorie and Howard Goldbach, a policeman. She was the oldest of five children. Her father was Austrian Jewish and her mother was Irish Catholic, and she attended a Catholic high school, Dominican Commercial in Jamaica, N.Y. Bach left school at sixteen to become a model, quickly rising to the ranks of top models.
Bach met Italian businessman Augusto Gregorini on a flight to Rome in 1966. They were married in 1968 and moved to Italy where they had a daughter, singer-songwriter Francesca Gregorini (born August 7, 1968) and a son Gianni (born in 1972). In 1981 she married ex-Beatle Ringo Starr.
In 1971, Bach co-starred with two other Bond girls, Claudine Auger and Barbara Bouchet in the mystery La Tarantola dal ventre nero giallo and had small roles in other Italian films.
In 1975, Bach separated from her first husband Augusto Gregorini and moved back to the United States with her two children. In 1977, her role as Anya Amasova in The Spy Who Loved Me gained her recognition as an international sex symbol and the following year she appeared in the movie Force 10 from Navarone. Bach has 28 films to her credit, although she has not worked as an actress since the mid-1980s.
Bach met Ringo Starr on the set of the film Caveman in February, 1980, and they were married on April 27, 1981, a few weeks after the film's release. Bach in recent years has accompanied Starr on his tours. Bach has appeared on some of Ringo's music videos, and played on some of his tracks.
Bach holds a Master's Degree (UCLA, 1993) in psychology. She started the Self Help Addiction Recovery Program (S.H.A.R.P.) with the help of Patti Boyd, Harrison and Clapton.
Bach and Starr created 'The Lotus Foundation', a charity with many sub-charites.
