Barbara Trentham
Barbara Trentham ( born August 27, 1944 in Brooklyn, New York; † August 2, 2013 in Chicago, Illinois ) was an American actress in film and television. She starred in the 1970s, various roles in international film and television productions. Among them in Rollerball, On the Trail of the Eagle, The girl from outer space, or Wolf Moon. Since the late 1980s, she worked as a painter.
Life and career
Barbara Trentham, born in 1944 Brooklyn, moved with her parents as a child to Weston in the state of Connecticut and graduated from Staples High School in 1962, Westport. She then attended the Mount Holyoke College in South Hadley, Massachusetts in 1966, where she graduated and then moved later that year to England to art at the Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art at Oxford University to study. During her time at Oxford she met her future husband, fellow students Giles Trentham ( Marriage 1967) know and decided on the name after her divorce in 1970 to keep them.
In the early 1970s, Barbara Trentham worked as a model in London. My photo appeared several times on the cover front pages of British magazine, first in magazines such as Seventeen and later featured in Vogue and other magazines. Their attractiveness, their fame and talent helped her in 1972 for her first supporting role alongside Shirley MacLaine, Perry King, David Elliott and Lisa Kohane in Waris Hussein's horror thriller The Possession of Joel Delaney.
Mid-1970s, she moved to Los Angeles to pursue an acting career. She starred in Norman Jewison's science fiction classic Rollerball with James Caan, John Houseman, Maud Adams and John Beck. In 1976 she was seen in the action drama On the Trail of the Eagle with James Coburn and Susannah York, directed by Douglas Hickox. In the same year she also had an appearance in the British- German television series The girl from outer space with Pierre Brice and Christian Quadflieg. In 1978, she appeared in Bruce Kessler was produced for TV horror film Wolf Moon and 1979 in an episode of the adventure series A Man Called Sloane. In parallel, she worked in television until 1980 in Los Angeles as a reporter and producer of Those Amazing Animals. There she met her second husband, British actor and comedian John Cleese know. The two married in February 1981, their daughter Camilla Cleese came in 1984 to the world. In 1990, the couple separated again. Barbara and John Cleese, however, remained a life long friendly relationship.
During her marriage to John Cleese their great love for art was reawakened and she began a third career as a painter. She painted preferably in oil. In 1993, she moved to Chicago, where she met the lawyer George Covington. The two married in 1998 and lived in Lake Bluff, Illinois. Barbara Trentham built in their home to an art studio, which became the meeting place and source of inspiration for local artists. She was also co-founder addition, a local organization for artists. In 2003 she began to spend a substantial portion of each year in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, where the landscape inspired her art. She was a member of the Art Association of Jackson Hole, organized and led by events and art fairs.
Barbara Trentham died on August 2, 2013 in Northwestern Memorial Hospital in Chicago at the age of 68 years from leukemia.