Barbara Ellen Myers

Barbara Ellen Myers is an American former child model and stage and television actress, born in Brooklyn, New York, in 1946 and raised in the Bensonhurst neighborhood. The daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ned Myers, she later attended Hunter College.

Myers's career began in early childhood. By December 1950, at age four, she had already been featured in a write-up and photograph in the Brooklyn Eagle, which identified her as a Conover model whose image was appearing on the covers of multiple national magazines simultaneously. Her modeling work continued into 1952, when she became one of the featured faces in the national advertising campaign for Lady Wildroot shampoo, appearing on the back cover of Ladies' Home Journal and in various other publications.

Her television work began in the fall of 1953, when she appeared in three episodes of the religious program Lamp Unto My Feet. That same season, she stepped into the role of Angela, the youngest daughter, in the final episodes of the short-lived NBC sitcom Bonino, replacing Lucille Graygor in the part. In January 1954, she appeared alongside Gage Clark and Lois Bolton in "T.R. and the Buttercups," an episode of the popular series Mama. Around this period, syndicated columnist Earl Wilson described her as one of the most promising young stage and television actresses he had encountered. During this same stretch, Myers joined the cast of the daytime soap opera Woman with a Past, playing Diane Sherwood, the daughter of the show's central character, Lyn Sherwood, portrayed by Constance Ford. The role became one of her most recognized early credits. Also in 1954, she appeared in two episodes of Kraft Television Theatre: as Pearl, the illegitimate daughter of Hester Prynne, in an adaptation of Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter, and as Debbie in Aurand Harris's "A Party for Jonathan."

Myers made her Broadway debut during the 1956–1957 season, going on to appear on Broadway through 1965. Her two most prominent stage credits came in 1957. In Arthur Laurents's drama A Clearing in the Woods, she played the youngest of three onstage alter egos of the play's protagonist, portrayed by Kim Stanley. That same year, she appeared in Morton Wishengrad's The Rope Dancers, taking on the role of Clementine in a cast that included Siobhan McKenna, Art Carney, Beverly Lunsford, and Joan Blondell, who played Clementine's mother, Mrs. Farrow. Her additional Broadway credits include The Playroom and the musical The Most Happy Fella.

In 1959, Myers appeared in a CBS television remake of a 1945 box office hit, playing Patsy Gallagher alongside a supporting cast that included Glenda Farrell, Charlie Ruggles, and Marc Connelly, with Robert Preston and Claudette Colbert in the leading roles. Daily News critic Kay Gardella, reviewing the production, singled out Myers and Ruggles among the cast's redeeming qualities. In October 1965, Myers portrayed Abishag in the Directions '66 episode "David and Nathan," which costarred Biff McGuire as King David and Lawrence Keith as Nathan the Prophet. Her final screen credit came on May 28, 1967, in "New Life to Live," the second installment of a series of Pentecost-themed episodes of the religious program Look Up and Live.

In 1966, the New York Times published an announcement from Mr. and Mrs. Myers of their daughter's engagement to Gerald Siegal, formerly of South Carolina, who worked as a New York-based talent agent. The couple had one child, a son born in 1981. As of June 2008, Gerald and Barbara Siegal remained married and were still residing in New York.