Barbara Leigh

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title: "Barbara Leigh" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["american-film-actresses", "female-models-from-georgia-(u.s.-state)", "living-people", "1946-births", "actresses-from-georgia-(u.s.-state)", "people-from-ringgold,-georgia", "american-television-actresses", "21st-century-american-women"] description: "American actress" topic_path: "arts" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbara_Leigh" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0

::summary American actress ::

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Field	Value
image	Barbara Leigh (cropped and adjusted).jpg
caption	Leigh in 2004
birth_name	Barbara Ann Kish
birth_place	Ringgold, Georgia, U.S.
birth_date
years_active	1969–1979
occupation	Actress, model
spouse
children
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Barbara Leigh (born Barbara Ann Kish; November 16, 1946) 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).

Early life

Barbara Leigh was born in Ringgold, Georgia. Leigh married at age 15. At the age of 17, she gave birth to her first 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.

Career

She starred in two films for director Stephanie Rothman, The Student Nurses and Terminal Island.

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.

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.

Filmography

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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
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References

References

1. "Bio & Resume".
2. [http://www.vogworld.com/Richard%20Arndt/The%20Warren%20Magazines.htm The Warren Magazines] {{webarchive. link. (2011-07-17)
3. Manning, Michael. (January 29, 2009). "The Interview: Actress & Model Barbara Leigh (Conclusion)". The Interview.
4. Vagg, Stephen. (16 September 2025). "The Nurses Cycle Part 1: The Student Nurses".
5. (July 2002). "Interview with Barbara Leigh". Elvis Information Network.
6. "Barbara Leigh". Home.rmci.net.

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