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Happy Birthday Barbara Bain!

Barbara Bain, the sultry Cinnamon Carter on Mission: Impossible celebrates her birthday today.

Bain was born Millicent Fogel in Chicago, the daughter of Russian-Jewish immigrants. She graduated from the University of Illinois with a bachelor’s degree in sociology. Developing an interest in dance, she moved to New York City, where she studied alongside Martha Graham. Dissatisfied with her career as a dancer, she went into modeling. Jobs with Vogue, Harper’s and other publications followed.

Still uninspired, however, Bain entered the Theater Studio to study acting; first under Curt Conway and then Lonny Chapman. Progressing to the Actors Studio, she was instructed by Lee Strasberg. Bain’s first acting role was in Paddy Chayevsky’s play Middle of the Night, which embarked on a national tour in October, 1957. Accompanying Bain was fellow actor and newly-acquired husband Martin Landau. The final leg of the tour brought the couple to Los Angeles, where they settled permanently.

After relocating, Bain established herself at the Actors Studio West, where she continues to teach classes and perform scene work. Bain’s earliest television appearances included CBS’s Tightrope, with Mike Connors, and three ABC series: The Law and Mr. Jones with James Whitmore, Adventures in Paradise with Gardner McKay and Straightaway with Brian Kelly and John Ashley. She guest-starred as Madelyn Terry in a 1960 episode of Perry Mason, “The Case of the Wary Wildcatter,” and in 1964 played the role of Elayna Scott in “The Case of the Nautical Knot.”

Between 1966 and 1969, Bain appeared — alongside her then husband, Martin Landau — in the major role of Cinnamon Carter in Mission: Impossible. She also starred as the character in a 1997 episode of Diagnosis: Murder. She won three consecutive Emmy Awards for Best Dramatic Actress for her performance in 1967, 1968 and 1969, in addition to a Golden Globe Award nomination in 1968. She starred opposite Landau again in the science-fiction TV series Space: 1999 (1975–77), as Dr. Helena Russell, and the made-for-TV film The Harlem Globetrotters on Gilligan’s Island (1981). Bain also appeared in The Dick Van Dyke Show, in the episode “Will You Two Be My Wife?” and My So-Called Life, playing the main character Angela Chase’s grandmother in one episode. Other appearances include “Matroyoshka,” an episode of the 1990s science-fiction series, Millennium.

so ive always wanted to have pen pals or bookpals

i love to read and i would love to send books to people with annotations and get some also

and also letter and little things and handwriting notes and all of those cute things penpals send tbh

im from the caribbean i'd like people from all over the world

and some interests are

book already mentioned

so many tv shows oml

music ( all types from rock to pop punk to kpop etc etc)

science

video games

i have a lot of interests tbh just message me!

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So I'm looking for a long distance book buddy, like a pen pal, but instead, we send fantabulous reads to each other, with cute hand written letters. Send me a message if interested and we can be friends! ☺️💕