Barbara Bain, 3x Emmy Winner, Star on Walk of Fame!
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Born in Chicago on September 13th, Barbara Bain graduated from the University of Illinois with a Bachelor’s Degree in Sociology before relocating to New York City. Once in the Big Apple, Bain found gainful employment as a high fashion model and explored her life-long love of dance by studying with master of American Modern Dance, the renowned Martha Graham. Further exploring her interest in the arts, Bain joined the legendary Actors’ Studio, studying with the most famous and respected of all acting teachers, Lee Strasberg.
Only a year or so after Bain accepted the invitation to join The Actors’ Studio, some of the most popular television shows of the day came calling. Bain appeared opposite Barry Sullivan and Larry Hagman in ZIV’s Harbormaster and with Darrin McGavin in the wildly popular Mike Hammer series. Perhaps her first real big break came, however, when she was cast in the recurring role of Karen Wells in the seminal detective series, Richard Diamond, Private Detective. As Wells, Bain played the love interest of the well-regarded David Janssen.
Bain continued to work steadily, appearing in numerous television series: Tightrope (created by The Pink Panther’s Blake Edwards), The Law and Mr. Jones, Straightaway and Adventures in Paradise. She also got to flex her comedy skills in one of the most memorable episodes of the classic The Dick Van Dyke Show, “Will You Two Be My Wife.” Cast as “Dorie-doo,” a blonde bombshell with whom Van Dyke must break up in order to marry the ever-perky Mary Tyler Moore, Bain turned in an hysterical performance, delivering some of the most memorable lines in the series’ history: “My Robbie-bobbie-boo!” and “Who the devil is Laura!?” Bain also showed off her comedic abilities as Alma Sutton in the spy-comedy, Get Smart.
In between the two sit-com appearances, Bain continued to be in demand, appearing in the wildly popular The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis, Hawaiian Eye, 77 Sunset Strip, Wagon Train, Ben Casey and Perry Mason. But it was in 1966 that Bain would create the role that would make her an international star.
Created by Bruce Geller, Mission: Impossible was an espionage-thriller series the likes of which had never appeared on television. Bain played Cinnamon Carter, a secret agent with beauty and the brains to match. It was a role for which she would become the first actress in television history to win three consecutive Emmy Awards for Best Dramatic Actress, a record that would stand for nearly two decades. She would revisit the Cinnamon Carter role in 1997 on Diagnosis Murder, appearing alongside Phil Morris, the adult son of her Mission: Impossible co-star Greg Morris, and reuniting with her one-time co-star, Dick Van Dyke.
In 1969, Bain left the Impossible Mission Force and began appearing in a number of well-regarded television movies: Murder Once Removed with John Forsythe, Goodnight, My Love directed by Peter Hyams and A Summer Without Boys. In 1973, however, Bain and Martin Landau accepted producers Gerry and Sylvia Anderson’s invitation to appear in their exciting new television series, Space: 1999. Bain appeared in 1999 for two seasons as Doctor Helena Russell, a role which has garnered her millions of fans worldwide.
Following Space: 1999, Bain continued to appear in feature films and make guest appearances in some of televisions hottest shows: The New Mike Hammer, Moonlighting, The Scarecrow and Mrs. King, Murder, She Wrote, My So-Called Life, Walker, Texas Ranger, Millennium, Strong Medicine, CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, the murder-mystery comedy Likely Suspects and Ben 10: Alien Force.
But it is her stage and charitable works that have been the main focus of Bain’s post-1999 life. Her stage work has garnered her Los Angeles Critic’s Circle and DramaLogue Awards for her work in Arthur Kopit’s Wings, Samuel Beckett’s Happy Days and Eugène Ionesco’s The Chairs. Most recently she has garnered rave reviews for her performances in the plays We Have a Body and Lovestruck.
Bain’s greatest passion, however, is her work as founder of the Screen Actors Guild’s BookPals Program that currently has some 300 of Bain’s colleagues reading to children in Los Angeles schools. Following the success of the program in Los Angeles, she has helped to develop the program in other major cities throughout North America.
Most recently, Bain appeared in the well-reviewed feature film Nothing Special playing Catherine, a trail-blazing business executive who is estranged from her daughter. A cancer patient, Catherine develops a surrogate mother-daughter relationship with a young protégé, and Bain turns in a moving and forceful performance.