Barbara Bach (b August 27, 1947) is an American model and actress, best known as the Bond girl from the James Bond film The Spy Who Loved Me.

Barbara Bach in ‘The Spy Who Loved Me’.

In 1977, Bach’s role as Anya Amasova in The Spy Who Loved Me gained her recognition and awareness as an international sex symbol. Although her character Anya is seen as the first Bond girl who is an equal to Bond, since she is also an experienced spy, Bach still walked away from the film saying that Bond is “a chauvinist pig who uses girls to shield him against bullets.”

In 1978 she played a role in the film Force 10 from Navarone. British musician Ringo Starr and Bach met on the set of the film Caveman in 1980. They were married on April 27, 1981, just a few weeks after the film’s release.