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Barbara Bain
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 Barbara Bain (2006) |
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| Birth name | Millicent Fogel | |||||
| Born | September 13, 1931 Chicago, Illinois, U.S. |
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| Occupation | actress | |||||
| Spouse(s) | Martin Landau (1957-1993) | |||||
| Children | Juliet Landau Susan Bain Landau Finch |
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Barbara Bain (born 13 September 1931) is an American actress.
Bain was born Millicent Fogel in Chicago, Illinois. She graduated from the University of Illinois with a Bachelor's Degree in Sociology and moved to New York City where she was a dancer and high fashion model. Bain studied with Martha Graham, thus cementing her interest in dancing. After attending Lee Strasberg's Actors' Studio, she changed careers to acting.
Bain is best known for her work in the television series Mission: Impossible as Cinnamon Carter, which role she originally acted out between 1966 and 1969, and which role she later reprised in one episode of Diagnosis: Murder. She was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for 'Actress in a Television Series' for her performance in Mission: Impossible, 1968. She won three consecutive Emmys for Best Dramatic Actress for that series, in 1967, 1968, 1969.[1] Martin Landau also starred in the series, and her departure from the series in 1969 coincided with his. Later, she starred opposite Landau again in the science fiction television series, Space: 1999 (1975-1977), as Dr. Helena Russell. Bain and Landau also performed together on screen in the 1981 made-for-TV film The Harlem Globetrotters on Gilligan's Island.
Bain appeared in the tenth episode of the TV series My So-Called Life, playing Angela Chase's grandmother.
Since then, Bain has worked to further the cause of many charities, including literacy.
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In 1957, she married actor Martin Landau, with whom she would later star on television. The couple have two children, actress Juliet Landau and film producer Susan Bain Landau Finch. Landau and Bain divorced in 1993.
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The pilot episode of her TV series Space: 1999, titled "Breakaway," is set on September 13, 1999, which was Bain's own 68th birthday.
In 2006, Bain had a minor role in an episode of CSI: Crime Scene Investigation ("Living Legends") which featured a suspect, played by another actor, who used stretch rubber face masks similar to those used in the old Mission: Impossible series in which Bain starred.
