Barbara Bain

Actor Sep 13 (age 94) Chicago, Illinois, USA 1951–2025 (74 year career)

6.2 avg rating

Biography

Barbara Bain (born Mildred Fogel; September 13, 1931) is an American actress. She is best known for her role as Cinnamon Carter on the action television series Mission: Impossible (1966–1969), which earned her three Primetime Emmy Awards, as well as a Golden Globe Award nomination. She also starred as Dr. Helena Russell on the science fiction television series Space: 1999 (1975–1977). Bain has also appeared in the films Animals with the Tollkeeper (1998), Panic (2000), Forget Me Not (2009) and …

Known For

Film

Mission: Impossible

Cinnamon Carter

Film

On the Rocks

Gran

Film

Space: 1999

Helena Russell

Film

Panic

Deidre

Film

Forget Me Not

Sister Dolores

Film

Ben 10: Alien Force

Verdona (voice)

Film

CSI: Crime Scene Investigation

Mrs. Iris Paul

Film

Gideon

Sarah

Filmography

Acting (74)

Movies (39)

Prisoners in Space

2025

as Dr. Helena Russell

Space 1999 - 50 Years Out of Orbit

2025

as Self

On the Rocks

2020

as Gran

6.1

The Matchmaker

2018

as Sarah

Reconnected

2018

as Gloria

Silver Skies

as Eve

Nothing Special

as Catherine

The Return of Victor Bergman

2010

as Doctor Helena Russell (archive footage)

Forget Me Not

2009

as Sister Dolores

5.4

Political Disasters

2009

as Elizabeth

Haunted Echoes

as Lenore Gitchell

Dangerous Isolation

as Elizabeth Kramer

Tracey Ullman in the Trailer Tales

as Judy Utermeyer

American Gun

as Anne Tillman

Smash Cuts! Super Sci-Fi Shorts Fest

2001

as Officer Ginlond (segment "Airtime")

Panic

as Deidre

Bel Air

Gideon

as Sarah

Animals with the Tollkeeper

as The Mother

The Spirit of '76

as Hipster

Skinheads

as Martha

Trust Me

as Mary Casal

Journey Through the Black Sun

1982

as Doctor Helena Russell

6.2

Cosmic Princess

1982

as Doctor Helena Russell

4.6

Don't Go Near the Park

1981

as Patty / Tra / Griffith's Wife / Petranella

4.0

The Harlem Globetrotters on Gilligan's Island

1981

as Dr. Olga Schmetner

4.6

Alien Attack

1980

as Doctor Helena Russell

6.1

Destination Moonbase-Alpha

1978

as Doctor Helena Russell

Space: 1999

as Helena Russell

Savage

as Gail Abbott

A Summer Without Boys

as Ellen Hailey

Goodnight, My Love

as Susan Lakely

Murder Once Removed

as Lisa Manning

The Mama Cass Television Program

1969

as Self

Mission: Impossible vs. the Mob

1969

as Cinnamon Carter

10.0

Mission: Impossible - The Bunker

1969

as Cinnamon Carter

Mission: Impossible - The Slave

1967

as Cinnamon Carter

Mission: Impossible - Old Man Out

1966

as Cinnamon Carter

The Eagle Obsession

as Self

Television (35)

Ben 10: Alien Force

2008

as Verdona (voice)

8.3

CSI: Crime Scene Investigation

as Mrs. Iris Paul

Strong Medicine

as Mrs. March

The Visitor

as Constance MacArthur

Millennium

as Lilly Unser

My So-Called Life

as Vivian Wood

Diagnosis: Murder

as Cinnamon Carter

Walker, Texas Ranger

as Mother Superior

CBS Summer Playhouse

as Julie Barrington

Moonlighting

as Emily Greydon

Murder, She Wrote

as Nora Morgan

Scarecrow and Mrs. King

Space: 1999

as Helena Russell

The Pet Set

as Self

Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In

1968

as Self (uncredited)

6.6

The Carol Burnett Show

as Self

Mission: Impossible

as Cinnamon Carter

Get Smart

My Mother the Car

The Greatest Show on Earth

1963

5.0

The Mike Douglas Show

1961

as Self

5.4

The Dick Van Dyke Show

as Dorothy

Ben Casey

Straightaway

The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis

1959

as Veronica Vanderheit

6.0

Adventures in Paradise

as (uncredited)

Hawaiian Eye

Mr. Lucky

as Prudence

Tightrope

as Sandra

77 Sunset Strip

Perry Mason

as Madelyn Terry

Wagon Train

as Lucy Garrison

State Trooper

as Nen Slausen

Summer Playhouse

The Red Skelton Show

as Self / Miss Mallory - Newspaperwoman

7.4