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Angie Bowie
Mary Angela Barnett (born September 25, 1949), also known as Angie Bowie, is an American model, actress, and journalist. Alongside her ex-husband David Bowie, she influenced the glam rock culture and fashion of the 1970s. She was married to Bowie (whom she assisted in conceptualizing the costumes for the Ziggy Stardust stage show) from 1970 until their divorce in 1980. They had one child, the film director Duncan Jones.
Mary Angela Barnett was born in Ayios Dhometios (then in British Cyprus) on September 25, 1949, the daughter of Canadian mother Helena Maria Galas Barnett and American father George Milton Barnett. Her father was a U.S. Army colonel who later worked as a mining engineer and ran a mill for the Cyprus Mines Corporation. She has a brother who is 16 years older than her. Both of her parents died in 1984.
Barnett is of English and Polish descent, and was raised Roman Catholic. She has identified as Cypriot due to the circumstances of her birth and early life, writing in 2000, "I am a Cypriot by disposition. I don't have a passport or Cypriot nationality but my heart is Cypriot, not Greek or Turkish Cypriot, just Cypriot." She was educated in Cyprus, Switzerland, and England (at Kingston Polytechnic), then moved to the U.S. to briefly attend Connecticut College until she was expelled after she had an affair with a fellow female student.
During the 1970s, Barnett occasionally appeared as a guest on television talk shows. On November 16, 1973, she appeared on The Tonight Show, hosted by Johnny Carson. She also performed on The Mike Douglas Show in early 1975.
She auditioned for the title role in the 1974 television movie Wonder Woman, with Cathy Lee Crosby getting the part. Newsweek hypothesized in its February 11, 1974, issue that Angie Bowie lost out to Crosby because of her refusal to wear a bra.
Later in 1975, Bowie bought the television rights to the Marvel Comics characters Black Widow and Daredevil, hoping to develop and sell a series featuring the two heroes. She planned to play Black Widow, with actor Ben Carruthers as Daredevil. The series failed to secure a studio deal, and it never went beyond the development stage.
Bowie was slated to portray Ruth Ellis in a 1979 film that was ultimately never produced. In the 1995 biography Ruth Ellis, My Mother, Ellis's daughter Georgie described herself as "indignant" about the casting, stating that "[Bowie's] credentials for the role seemed to me to be non-existent".
In March 1982, Bowie appeared on the television program The Old Grey Whistle Test, reciting poetry, while Mick Karn, from the band Japan, played bass. Her performance was lambasted by the British media.
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Angie Bowie
Mary Angela Barnett (born September 25, 1949), also known as Angie Bowie, is an American model, actress, and journalist. Alongside her ex-husband David Bowie, she influenced the glam rock culture and fashion of the 1970s. She was married to Bowie (whom she assisted in conceptualizing the costumes for the Ziggy Stardust stage show) from 1970 until their divorce in 1980. They had one child, the film director Duncan Jones.
Mary Angela Barnett was born in Ayios Dhometios (then in British Cyprus) on September 25, 1949, the daughter of Canadian mother Helena Maria Galas Barnett and American father George Milton Barnett. Her father was a U.S. Army colonel who later worked as a mining engineer and ran a mill for the Cyprus Mines Corporation. She has a brother who is 16 years older than her. Both of her parents died in 1984.
Barnett is of English and Polish descent, and was raised Roman Catholic. She has identified as Cypriot due to the circumstances of her birth and early life, writing in 2000, "I am a Cypriot by disposition. I don't have a passport or Cypriot nationality but my heart is Cypriot, not Greek or Turkish Cypriot, just Cypriot." She was educated in Cyprus, Switzerland, and England (at Kingston Polytechnic), then moved to the U.S. to briefly attend Connecticut College until she was expelled after she had an affair with a fellow female student.
During the 1970s, Barnett occasionally appeared as a guest on television talk shows. On November 16, 1973, she appeared on The Tonight Show, hosted by Johnny Carson. She also performed on The Mike Douglas Show in early 1975.
She auditioned for the title role in the 1974 television movie Wonder Woman, with Cathy Lee Crosby getting the part. Newsweek hypothesized in its February 11, 1974, issue that Angie Bowie lost out to Crosby because of her refusal to wear a bra.
Later in 1975, Bowie bought the television rights to the Marvel Comics characters Black Widow and Daredevil, hoping to develop and sell a series featuring the two heroes. She planned to play Black Widow, with actor Ben Carruthers as Daredevil. The series failed to secure a studio deal, and it never went beyond the development stage.
Bowie was slated to portray Ruth Ellis in a 1979 film that was ultimately never produced. In the 1995 biography Ruth Ellis, My Mother, Ellis's daughter Georgie described herself as "indignant" about the casting, stating that "[Bowie's] credentials for the role seemed to me to be non-existent".
In March 1982, Bowie appeared on the television program The Old Grey Whistle Test, reciting poetry, while Mick Karn, from the band Japan, played bass. Her performance was lambasted by the British media.