Barbara Bouchet (born Bärbel Gutscher; 15 August 1943)
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actress and entrepreneur who lives and works in Italy. She has acted in more than 80 films and television episodes and founded a production company that has produced fitness videos and books. She also owns and operates a fitness studio. She appeared in '' Casino Royale'' (1967) as

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, in ''

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'' (1972) as Patrizia, in '' Sweet Charity'' (1969) as Ursula, in ''

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'' (1972) as Nelly Bordon, in '' The Scarlet and The Black'' (1983) as Minna Kappler, and in

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'' (2002) as Mrs. Schermerhorn.

Early life

Bärbel Gutscher was born in Reichenberg, Sudetenland, a part of Czechoslovakia that was ceded to National Socialist Germany and is today part of the

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. She had four siblings. Her father, Fritz, was a photographer, and her mother, Ingrid, was an actress. After

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, her family was placed in a resettlement camp in the

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in Germany. They were granted permission to emigrate to the United States under the humanitarian provisions of the

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. After arriving in the United States, the family lived in Five Points, California on the west side of the Central Valley and eventually settled in

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, where Gutscher was raised. During the early 1960s San Francisco Bay Area television station

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ran a show named '' The KPIX Dance Party'' and offered Gutscher the opportunity to become a member of the show's dance group. These were teenage dancers who danced live to the hit songs of the day and became locally known in their own right by being on television six days per week. She was on the show from 1959 until 1962, then moved to Hollywood to get into the film industry, changing her Germanic sounding name to the French sounding Barbara Bouchet.

Career

Barbara Bouchet in The Red Queen Kills Seven Times (1972)

Bouchet began her career modelling for magazine covers and appearing in television commercials, before eventually becoming an actress. Her first acting role was a minor part in '' What a Way to Go!'' (1964), which led to a series of other roles in the 1960s. She appeared in the films ''

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'' (1964), ''

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'' (1964), and '' Agent for H.A.R.M.'' (1966). She appeared, semi-nude, in two editions of ''

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'' magazine: May 1965 (stills from ''

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. She guest-starred in the '' Star Trek'' episode " By Any Other Name" (1968), and appeared in the musical film '' Sweet Charity'' (1969) playing Ursula. Tired of being typecast and unable to get starring roles in Hollywood, Bouchet moved to Italy in 1970 and began acting in Italian films, such as ''

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'', '' Amuck!'', '' The Man with Icy Eyes'', ''

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'' and '' Sex with a Smile''. She starred with Gregory Peck in '' The Scarlet and The Black'' (1983), a successful TV movie. In 1985, she established a production company and started to produce a successful series of fitness books and videos. In addition, Bouchet opened a fitness studio in Rome. In 2002, Bouchet appeared in ''

'', playing Mrs. Schermerhorn.

Personal life

In 1974, Bouchet married Luigi Borghese, a producer, with whom she has two sons:

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(b. 1976), a TV chef, and Massimiliano (b. 1989), a bartender. Her husband subsequently produced some of her later films. They separated in 2006, citing different aspirations.

Filmography

Films

Television

References

External links

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website dedicated to the Italian post-World War II cinema
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