Barbara Eden, who is 92 years old, has been an actress for seven decades and is still going strong.
The actress, singer, and producer had already been on our screens for 10 years before she got her most renowned role in the 1965 debut of “I Dream of Jeannie.”
The 1960s sitcom “I Dream of Jeannie,” in which an astronaut brings home a female genie who is actually almost 2,000 years old, has been watched by multiple generations of TV viewers.
Despite the potentially ridiculous premise, audiences were drawn in and kept watching because to Barbara Eden, who played Jeannie with both talent and beauty.
Many of Barbara’s fans probably won’t believe this, but the actress is actually 92 years old!
She’s still going strong and staying busy, even though it’s been a while since we last saw her in her signature harem attire on television.
Barbara hasn’t always had it easy, though.
Barbara Eden was born in 1931, in Tucson, Arizona, United States. After her parents’ divorce, she relocated to San Francisco, and there she began her career studying voice at San Francisco’s Conservatory of Music.
As a young woman, Barbara performed in Golden Gate City’s nightclubs with local bands. However, she, too, eventually decided to pursue acting training.
“My mother said, ‘Barbara, you don’t sound like you mean a word you’re singing. I think you should study acting, too,’” Eden recalled to Closer Weekly.
Her success as an actress led her to relocate to Hollywood, where she was featured in numerous popular 1950s television programs.
After making her television debut as a regular guest on The Johnny Carson Show in 1955, she became a household celebrity because to her starring part in the long-running fantasy comedy “I Dream of Jeannie.”
An Arizona native, she played Jeannie, a seductive genie who was freed from her bottle by Larry Hagman’s character, Captain Anthony “Tony” Nelson of the United States Air Force.
