Barbara Eden

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Female

Birthday

1931-08-23 (94 years old)

Place of Birth

Tucson, Arizona, USA

Barbara Eden

Biography

Barbara Eden is an American film, stage, and television actress and singer. She is best known for her starring role of "Jeannie" in the sitcom I Dream of Jeannie. Eden was born Barbara Jean Morehead in Tucson, Arizona, the daughter of Alice Mary (née Franklin) and Hubert Henry Morehead. Her parents divorced when she was three; she and her mother, Alice, moved to San Francisco, where later her mother married Harrison Connor Huffman, a telephone lineman. The Great Depression deeply affected the Huffman family, and as they were unable to afford many luxuries, Barbara's mother entertained the children by singing songs. This musical background lef...

Acting

1961

Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea

as Lieutenant Cathy Conners

2003

Carolina

as Daphne St. Claire

1964

The New Interns

as Nurse Laura Rogers

1964

7 Faces of Dr. Lao

as Angela Benedict

1960

From the Terrace

as Clemmie Shreve

1964

Ride the Wild Surf

as Augie (Augusta) Poole

1962

1964

The Brass Bottle

as Sylvia Kenton

1960

Flaming Star

as Roslyn Pierce

1957

Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter?

as Miss Carstairs (uncredited)

2003

Loco Love

as Jackie

1999

Hollywood Screen Tests: Take 1

as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

1961

All Hands on Deck

as Sally Hobson

1976

1978

Harper Valley P.T.A.

as Stella Johnson

1989

1973

1975

Let's Switch!

as Lacy Colbert

1996

Dead Man's Island

as Henrietta O'Dwyer Collins

1972

The Woman Hunter

as Dina Hunter

1990

Opposites Attract

as Charlie McKeon

1956

Back from Eternity

as Student Newspaper Photographer

2009

Always and Forever

as Mary Anderson

1959

A Private's Affair

as Sgt. Katie Mulligan

1993

Visions of Murder

as Dr. Jesse Newman

1971

A Howling in the Woods

as Liza Crocker

1964

The Confession

as Pia Pacelli

1960

1971

1974

The Stranger Within

as Ann Collins

1987

The Stepford Children

as Laura Harding

1957

Bailout at 43,000

as Blonde with Mike at Nightclub (uncredited)

1963

The Yellow Canary

as Lissa Paxton

1991

Her Wicked Ways

as Tess O'Brien

1984

Chattanooga Choo Choo

as Maggie Jones

1974

1979

1981

Return of the Rebels

as Mary Beth Allen

1991

Hell Hath No Fury

as Terri Ferguson

2019

1996

A Very Brady Sequel

as Jeannie (uncredited)

1967

Kismet

as Lalumne

1957

1961

Swingin' Along

as Carol Walker

1994

Eyes of Terror

as Dr. Jesse Newman

Production

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