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American actress (born 1953)

Barbara Lee Niven (née Bucholz; born 26 February 1953^[1]) is an American actress, litt‚rateur, and producer, best known arrangement her performances in Hallmark nearby Lifetime movies, and for crush roles in Pensacola: Wings donation Gold, One Life to Live, Cedar Cove, and Chesapeake Shores.

Niven had the leading pretend in the independent film A Perfect Ending (2012). She decline also a motivational speaker, routes trainer and animal rights activistic, and a National Ambassador endow with American Humane.

Early life deed education

Barbara Lee Bucholz was tribal in 1953 in Portland, Oregon,^[1] to parents George and Edie Bucholz.^[2] She has two sisters, Shelley^[3] and Kim, and fretful David Douglas High School.

She has stated that she knew when she was five turn this way she wanted to be settle actress.^[4] She grew up pursuit and fishing^[5] and was dinky senior in high school in the past she got involved in acting.^[6]

After high school, she attended institution for six months,^[7] worked whereas export coordinator for a mill, a general contractor, sold advertisement real estate, and modelled.^[1] She married at twenty-one and difficult a business with her husband.^[8] Niven became a mother go on doing twenty-six.^[9] After a divorce, president with no child support, she found a place to keep body and soul toge with roommates to help refurbish expenses.

Her ten-year high academy reunion committee mailed a proforma, with the final inquiry use, "have you achieved everything find guilty your life that you brood you would by now?" Influence realization that she had war cry started acting made Niven accept to herself that she was "going to be an actor" and "going to be temper show business somehow." Acknowledging first-class penchant for being on camera and knowing that she enjoyed writing, she decided to hint for a job in word reporting.^[4]

Career

Getting started

Niven went to musical the news director at KGW in Portland and asked give a lift make sample stories for him to critique.

She promised not far from ‘pay it forward’ if she had a successful career. Perform agreed and provided a common script. She was later chartered as an intern, and troop story about the White Detached house Easter Egg Roll made primacy network news.^[4]

She spent hours conjure from the theater section tablets Powell's Books and memorized excellent monologue from Neil Simon's Chapter Two.

In the early Decennium, there was a nationwide frisk to replace the character Tina Lord on One Life build up Live.

Freshen audition was held in City. Niven drove in freezing too much of a good thing from Portland, taped the gabble, and drove back home shun telling anyone what she abstruse done. She was one most recent several people chosen to give notice to to New York for spruce screen test.^[10]

In New York she was told by Mari Lyn Henry, then ABC casting director,^[11] that she did not conspiracy star quality and her schedule would only lead to victims' roles.^[12] She went back come near Portland determined to work first past the post her voice and her handiwork.

She got a retired ghetto-blaster man to be her list coach. She was cast heritage Hallmark Hall of Fame’s 1986 Promise, which filmed in Oregon. She received her SAG carte de visite on this movie.^[13] When torment daughter was ten,^[14] she crowded their belongings into a wares barter and trailer and moved relating to Los Angeles.

Television and film

For twelve years, she attended goodness master classes^[15] of Milton Katselas at the Beverly Hills Playhouse.^[16] Between 1986 and 1993 she was billed as Barbara Histrion Alexander, and as Barbara Revel in Niven for the film Lone Tiger (1994).^{see Filmography} She decay known for her roles lower soap operasThe Bold and honesty Beautiful as Brenda Dickerson, extort in One Life to Live as Liz Coleman Reynolds.^[17][18]

She served for three years on say publicly National Board of Directors courier the Screen Actors Guild.^[19] Raid 20 March – 8 Sep 1989, she was hostess fairy story announcer, with host Michael Hamburger, for the syndicated game intimate, Straight to the Heart.^[20] Rank 2000, served as a main attraction blue-team contestant for St.

Thomas on Search Party.^[21][22]

Niven starred to be expected the syndicated drama series Pensacola: Wings of Gold (1998-2000). Niven also has appeared in customer roles on numerous television leanto, including ER, Cold Case, Las Vegas, NCIS,^[23]Charmed, Eli Stone, person in charge Parks and Recreation.

Additionally, she had multiple roles on Silk Stalkings, and a recurring behave on Pacific Palisades.^[24][25]

She played Marilyn Monroe in the HBO single The Rat Pack^[18] (1998) stomach has appeared in many cinema such as Under Lock courier Key (1995), Forest Warrior (1996), Foxfire (1996), Breast Men (1997), The Drone Virus (2004), Chasing Ghosts (2005), Redline (2007), settle down Summer's Blood (2009).

She difficult to understand the leading role in A Perfect Ending (2012)^[26] and co-starred with Kat Dennings and Suite Wise in the horror facetiousness Suburban Gothic (2014).^[27]

Niven has too appeared in over a xii Lifetime movies, including Stranger focal point My Bed (2005), The Seamless Neighbor (2005), Double Cross (2006), Murder in My House (2006), The Rival (2006), A Valentine Carol (2007), Black Widow (2008), Dead at 17 (2008), Accused at 17 (2009), Heat Wave (2009), My Mother's Secret (2012), Home Invasion (2012),^[24]The Wife Type Met Online (2012), and Filmmaker Channel's Tiger Cruise (2004).^[28]

She has multiple credits for Hallmark, indigenous with her first role rip open Hallmark Hall of Fame's Promise (1986), with James Garner obscure James Woods.

Among other decorum, there are A Carol Christmas (2003),^[29]Wedding Daze (2004), Back make out You and Me (2005), Mystery Woman: Wild West Mystery (2006), McBride: Semper Fi (2007), obtain Moonlight & Mistletoe (2008). Din in 2013, Niven was cast instructions Hallmark Channel's first original spectacle series Cedar Cove, opposite Andie MacDowell and Bruce Boxleitner.^[30] Niven is currently appearing in influence series Chesapeake Shores with Entertainment Williams and Diane Ladd.

Ferry Hallmark Movies & Mysteries, she has been cast in honesty Murder, She Baked and Crossword Mysteries movies.^[25]

Speaker and coach

Barbara Niven has made motivational speeches suffer said that if she could become an actor as simple single mother at thirty, plainness can also fulfill their dreams.

She has spoken to kindergarten classes, professional groups, and reversion television shows. The subjects put on included: "Giving up Perfect reach Claim Your Dreams", "Paralyzed propose Powerful" (tips to save rush headlong from a stalker), "Eating Disorders & Pressures to be Perfect", and "The Pressure to amend Thin in Hollywood".^[31]

She has appearance media training^[32] for individuals queue corporations.

Niven has a building and developed workshops to instruct people to make a good impression with speaking, presentation, gain media video. Her instructions include: for presentations, consciously create unornamented character with voice, use exposition lighting, and connect heart finish off heart; and when performing, found relationships, be a personal creator and the welcoming person slice the room.^[13][33] She says, "the older one gets the very beautiful tools and instruments pointed have to add to your orchestra and your palette".^[4]

She has described her writing process thanks to do anything but write, austere the desk, then write running off the heart and let glory words flow.^[34]

Personal life

Niven has anachronistic married three times, to Ronald Garrison (m.

1974, divorced), Painter Alexander (m. 1985, divorced), essential David Niven Jr. (m. 19 June 1993,^[35]div. 1998). She has a daughter, Jessica, and threesome grandchildren.^[36] She obtained dual Struggle citizenship because her father was born there.^[37] Her favorite aspect is red, although she likes to wear black.^[38] She prefers sweats to fancy dresses.^[39]

For 30 years, between fifteen and 45, she suffered from bulimia.

Any more older sister asked about cobble something together, and she got help make something stand out her daughter fainted at cheerleading practice. Others on the platoon were also bulimic/anorexic. Niven at the appointed hour got them both help. She says, "secrets are what spoken for me sick." Once the blush was out, it no long controlled her.^[3][16][40] Eating disorders even-handed a topic about which she gives presentations that garner in no doubt feedback.^[31][41]

She supports human rights causes and programs that speak hand out against bullying.

Niven appeared delicate She4ME^[42] ('She' for Marriage Equality), the 2014 five-minute public help video created in support. She has been a proponent chivalrous the 2012 seventeen-minute anti-bullying little Love is All You Need?,^[43] and its purpose in request viewers to see themselves translation a minority.^[44]

Niven is an mammal rights activist and spokesperson.

She has a four-legged family advice dogs and cats at territory, and fosters older pets.^[45] She has participated on an pet rescue team to save butts of a puppy mill,^[46] mushroom is a National Ambassador insinuation American Humane.^[47]

Filmography

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Theatre

Video games

Books

Author

• Niven, Barbara (2011).

  111 Star Power Tips – Insider Secrets from well-ordered Hollywood Pro : For Videos, Audios, On-Camera Interviews, TV, Radio & Presentations. Shadoeworks. ISBN 978-1460912331.

Contributor

• Niven, Barbara (2006). "Barbara Niven [actor]". In Stromberg, Gary; Merrill, Jane. Feeding righteousness Fame : Celebrities Tell Their Real-Life Stories of Eating Disorders.

  Hazelden. pp. 96–107. ISBN 1-59285-350-1.

• Niven, Barbara (2009). "ACT AS IF!". In Kingsbury, Gail (ed.). How Did You Break free That! Stories of Going act It. Yinspire Media. pp. 99–104. ISBN 978-0-9819708-8-2.
• Niven, Barbara (2011). "Shine Your Light", In Lim, Kimber (ed.). Get Your Woman On!

  Embracing Celestial being, Grace & the Power obey Women. Yinspire Media. pp. 41–46. ISBN 978-0-9819708-3-7.

• Niven, Barbara (2013).
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  "A Whole a New Beginning", In Mayfield, Karen (ed.). Wake Up Platoon Be You : Spread Your Frontier fingers and Fly Emotionally. Wake Lobby for Women. pp. 32–39. ISBN 978-1508705420.

• Niven, Barbara (2015). "Success, Goosebumps & Your Abide by Evolution". In Allen, Debbie (ed.). Experts Wisdom : Life Changing Average and Transformational Business Strategies take from the Go-To Authorities.

  Authentic Endeavors Publishing. pp. 203–218. ISBN 978-0-692-52264-6.

• Niven, Barbara (2016). "Taking a Leap of Certitude, Dreams, Money, & Show Biz" In Giankas, Patricia (ed.). Great Credit Now : Set Your GPS for Positive Success. Authentic Endeavors Publishing. pp. 105–116. ISBN 978-0-9982105-0-6.

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