Barbara Leigh should not be confused with Barbara Leigh-Hunt.
| Birth Name: | Barbara Ann Kish |
| Birth Place: | Ringgold, Georgia, United States |
| Birth Date: | 1946 11, mf=yes |
| Years Active: | 1969–1979 |
| Occupation: | Actress, model |
Barbara Leigh (born Barbara Ann Kish; November 16, 1946)[1] is a former American actress and fashion model. Her breakthrough role came in 1972 with the film Junior Bonner, in which she starred alongside her then-boyfriend Steve McQueen. She became the first model to wear the Vampirella costume on the cover of the original Warren Publishing Vampirella magazine, #67 (March 1975).[2]
Barbara Leigh was born in Ringgold, Georgia. Leigh married at age 15. At the age of 17, she gave birth to her fist son, Finley Gerald "Gerry" Haynes, Jr. on July 8, 1964 in Tennessee. He died on February 20, 1994 in Riverside, California at age 29. Her second child Tony Haynes was born in 1967 and died a few hours after he was born.[3]
In 2002, she published a memoir titled The King, McQueen, and The Love Machine, which accounts for her romances with McQueen, Elvis Presley, and Jim Aubrey in the early 1970s.[4]
In January 2014, Leigh retired from Playboy Enterprises Inc. after working with the company for almost 17 years.
She developed hyperthyroidism (Graves' disease) and has been a spokeswoman for the National Graves' Disease Foundation.[5]
| Year | Title | Role | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1969 | The Ballad of Andy Crocker | Mia | ||
| 1970 | The Most Deadly Game | Karen | TV series: 1 Episode | |
| 1970 | The Student Nurses | Priscilla | ||
| 1971 | Pretty Maids All in a Row | Jean McDrew | ||
| 1971 | The Christian Licorice Store | 1st Starlet | ||
| 1972 | Junior Bonner | Charmagne | ||
| 1973 | Terminal Island | Bunny | ||
| 1973 | The President's Plane is Missing | WAF | TV movie | |
| 1974 | Smile Jenny, You’re Dead | Mildred | TV movie | |
| 1975 | Boss Nigger | Miss Pruitt | ||
| 1975 | Baretta | Karen Dennsion | TV series: 1 Episode | |
| 1975 | Harry O | Gina | TV series: 2 episodes | |
| 1978 | The Rockford Files | Sylvia | TV series: 1 Episode | |
| 1978 | CHiPs | Paula | TV series: 1 Episode | |
| 1978 | The Incredible Hulk | June Tobey | TV series: 1 Episode | |
| 1979 | Swim Team | Mrs. Mandrake, the Biorhythms Coach | ||
| 1979 | Seven | Alexa | ||
| 1979 | Mistress of the Apes | Laura |