Barbara Rhoades

Born and raised in Poughkeepsie, New York, Rhoades is the daughter of Sherry Rhoades.^{[citation needed]}

She attended Our Lady of Lourdes High School.^[1]

She began taking dancing lessons when she was 7 years old.^[2]

Rhoades began acting in the late 1960s, appearing in guest roles on several television series, including It Takes a Thief, Ironside, Mannix, McMillan & Wife, Columbo, Kojak, Starsky & Hutch, Alias Smith and Jones, Love, American Style, The Odd Couple, The Six Million Dollar Man, Sanford and Son, Bewitched, Maude, Trapper John, M.D.,The Partridge Family, Murder, She Wrote, Cagney & Lacey, and Law & Order. She was a regular cast member of the 1977 situation comedy Busting Loose, portraying Melody Feebeck, and in 1989, as Jessica Gardner on Generations^[3]

In 1967, Rhoades signed a long-term exclusive contract with Universal Pictures.^[4]

Rhoades appeared in a number of films during the 1970s, including There Was a Crooked Man... (1970), opposite Kirk Douglas and Henry Fonda, and Up the Sandbox (1972) starring Barbra Streisand. She played a police officer, "No Balls" Hadley, in 1977's The Choirboys and a Las Vegas hooker who picks up Art Carney along the road during his Oscar-winning performance in Harry and Tonto (1974). She also had roles in Scream Blacula Scream (1973) and The Goodbye Girl (1977) and was a frequent panelist on the popular 1970s game show Match Game, hosted by Gene Rayburn. In 2007, she appeared in First Born with Elisabeth Shue.^{[citation needed]}

In 2011, she had a recurring role on the American soap opera One Life to Live as Irene Manning, childhood best friend of Victoria Lord (Erika Slezak).

For 18 months^[4] on Broadway, Rhoades had the role of a showgirl in the musical Funny Girl (1964).^[5] She gained other stage experience in summer stock productions at the Cecilwood Theater in Fishkill, New York.^[4]

Rhoades married Bernie Orenstein, a television producer.^[6]

• Barbara Rhoades at IMDb
• Barbara Rhoades at the TCM Movie Database