Barbara Babcock Biography

Fast Facts

• She and actress Ali MacGraw were classmates at Wellesley College
• Spent much of her childhood in Tokyo due to her father's career as a general in the U․S․ Army and learned to speak Japanese before English
• Many of her characters have a tough side, including her characters on "Hill Street Blues" and "Dr․ Quinn, Medicine Woman․"
• Once owned homes in both Carmel, California and Ireland
• Stated that her beauty routine included meditation, yoga, work outs, environmentally friendly beauty products and yogurt facials
• People magazine voted her one of the 50 Most Beautiful People in the World in 1994
• Sampled fried termites in Kenya and studied monkeys in the Amazon