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name: "Barbara Bain"
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born: "13 September 1931"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
updated: "2026-09-16T15:57:57.841693+00:00"
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# Barbara Bain

Actor. Born 13 September 1931 in Chicago, Illinois, USA.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 13 September 1931, Chicago, Illinois, USA
- **Also known as:** Barbara Monker, باربارا باین

## Biography

Barbara Bain is an American actress. She was born Mildred Fogel on 13 September 1931 in Chicago, Illinois.

She studied sociology at the University of Illinois and trained in dance with Martha Graham and acting at the Actors Studio with Lee Strasberg. Bain began her career as a model and dancer in New York before moving into acting in the late 1950s.

She is best known for playing Cinnamon Carter in the television series *Mission: Impossible* (1966–1969), for which she won three consecutive Primetime Emmy Awards, and as Dr Helena Russell in *Space: 1999* (1975–1977). Her other credits include guest roles in *Get Smart* (1965), *Murder, She Wrote* (1984) and *Moonlighting* (1985), and film appearances in *Panic* (2000), *Forget Me Not* (2009) and *On the Rocks* (2020).

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com, themoviedb.org.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Mission: Impossible* (1966), Fi1m 82, as Cinnamon Carter — [page](https://film.one/tv/mission-impossible-1966.md)

## Also known for

- *CSI: Crime Scene Investigation* (2000), Mrs. Iris Paul
- *Ben 10: Alien Force* (2008), Verdona (voice)
- *On the Rocks* (2020), Gran
- *Walker, Texas Ranger* (1993), Mother Superior
- *Murder, She Wrote* (1984), Nora Morgan, Ellen Lombard
- *Get Smart* (1965), Alma
- *Moonlighting* (1985), Emily Greydon
- *Millennium* (1996), Lilly Unser

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