Barbara Niven
Barbara Niven was born in Portland, Oregon, United States on February 26th, 1953 and is the Soap Opera Actress. At the age of 71, Barbara Niven biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, TV shows, and networth are available.
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Barbara Niven (born February 26, 1953) is an American actress and producer, best known for her performances in Lifetime movies and Hallmark movies, and television roles in Pensacola: Wings of Gold, One Life to Live, Cedar Cove, and Chesapeake Shores.
Niven also had the leading role in the independent film A Perfect Ending (2012).
Early life
Barbara Lee Bucholz was born in 1953 in Portland, Oregon, to parents George and Edie Bucholz. She has two sisters, Shelley and Kim, and attended David Douglas High School. She has stated that she knew when she was five that she wanted to be an actress. She grew up hunting and fishing and was a senior in high school before she got involved in acting.
After high school, she attended college for six months, worked as export coordinator for a foundry, a general contractor, sold commercial real estate, and modelled. She married at twenty-one and had a business with her husband. Niven became a mother at twenty-six. After a divorce, and with no child support, she found a place to live with roommates to help with expenses.
Her ten-year high school reunion committee mailed a questionnaire, with the final inquiry being, "have you achieved everything in your life that you thought you would by now?" The realization that she had not started acting made Niven declare to herself that she was "going to be an actor" and "going to be in show business somehow." Acknowledging a penchant for being on camera and knowing that she enjoyed writing, she decided to look for a job in news reporting.
Personal life
Niven has been married three times, to Ronald Garrison (m. 1974, divorced), David Alexander (m. 1985, divorced), and David Niven Jr. (m. June 19, 1993, div. 1998). She has a daughter, Jessica, and three grandchildren. She obtained dual Canadian citizenship because her father was born there. Her favorite color is red, although she likes to wear black. She prefers sweats to fancy dresses.
For thirty years, between fifteen and forty-five, she suffered from bulimia. Her older sister asked about it, and she got help after her daughter fainted at cheerleading practice. Others on the squad were also bulimic/anorexic. Niven promptly got them both help. She says, "secrets are what kept me sick." Once the secret was out, it no longer controlled her. Eating disorders is a topic about which she gives presentations that garner positive feedback.
She supports human rights causes and programs that speak out against bullying. Niven appeared in She4ME ('She' for Marriage Equality), the 2014 five-minute public service video created in support. She has been a proponent of the 2012 seventeen-minute anti-bullying short Love is All You Need?, and its purpose in asking viewers to see themselves as a minority.
Niven is an animal rights activist and spokesperson. She has a four-legged family of dogs and cats at home, and fosters older pets. She has participated on an animal rescue team to save victims of a puppy mill, and is a National Ambassador for American Humane.
Career
Niven went to see the news director at KGW in Portland and asked for sample stories to read for him to discuss. If she had a fruitful career, she said she would 'pay it forward.' He agreed and wrote a standard script. She was later hired as an intern, and her account of the White House Easter Egg Roll made national television news.
She spent hours reading from Powell's Books' theater section and memorized a monologue from Neil Simon's Chapter Two. On One Life to Live, there was a national search to replace Tina Lord's character in the early 1980s. In Seattle, one audition was held. Niven rode in the freezing rain from Portland, taped the monologue, and then rode back home without telling anyone what she had done. She was one of many people selected to attend a computer science at New York City.
Marilyn Henry, then ABC casting director, told her in New York that she did not have star power and that her voice would only lead to victims' roles. She returned to Portland, Oregon, determined to concentrate on her voice and her art. She has hired a former radio man to be her voice coach. She appeared in Hallmark Hall of Fame's 1986 Promise, which was shot in Oregon. On this film, she received her SAG card. When her daughter was ten, she packed their possessions into a truck and trailer and rolled to Los Angeles.
She attended Milton Katselas at the Beverly Hills Playhouse for ten years. Barbara Lee Alexander (1986-1993) and Barbara Lee Niven for the film Lone Tiger (1994) Barbara Lee Alexander is a television actress who appeared in soap operas The Bold and the Beautiful as Barbara Dickerson, and as Liz Coleman Reynolds in One Life to Live.
She served on the National Board of Directors for the Screen Actors Guild for three years. She appeared on "Stre the Heart" from March 20 to September 8, 1989, as host Michael Burger. In 2000, she competed for St. Thomas on Search Party as a celebrity blue-team contestant.
Niven appeared on the syndicated drama series Pensacola: Wings of Gold (1998-2000). Niven has appeared on several television shows, including ER, Cold Case, Las Vegas, NCIS, Charmed, Eli Stone, and Parks and Recreation. In addition, she appeared on Silk Stalkings and played a regular role on Pacific Palisades.
Marilyn Monroe appeared in several films including Under Lock and Key (1995), Forest Warrior (1996), Fireman (1996), Chasing Ghosts (2004), Summer's Blood (2009). She was leading role in A Perfect Conclusion (2012) and co-starred with Kat Dennings and Ray Wise in the horror film Suburban Gothic (2014).
Niven has appeared in more than a dozen Lifetime films, including Stranger in My Bed (2005), Double Cross (2006), Murder in My House (2006), A Valentine Carol (2005), The Wife He Met Online (2010), and The Beatles (2004).
She has earned multiple awards for Hallmark, beginning with her first appearance in Hallmark Hall of Fame's Promise (1986), with James Garner and James Woods. A Carol Christmas (2004), Wedding Daze (2004), Back to You and Me (2004), "Wantletoe (2006)," and Moonlight & Mistletoe (2008) are among other performances. In 2013, Niven appeared in Hallmark Channel's first original drama series Cedar Cove, opposite Andie MacDowell and Bruce Boxleitner. Treat Williams and Diane Laddd, as Niven, is now appearing in the series Chesapeake Shores. She has appeared in the Murder, She Baked, and Crossword Mysteries films for Hallmark Movies & Mysteries.
Barbara Niven has made motivational speeches and said that if she could become an actress as a single mother at thirty, others would also fulfill their dreams. She has lectured in classrooms, industry groups, and television shows. "Giving up Perfect to Claim Your Dreams" (tips on how to avoid a stalker), "Eating Disorders & Pressures to be Fit" and "How to Be Thin in Hollywood") were among the topics.
She has worked with individuals and companies in media education. Niven has a studio and held workshops to inspire people to make a positive impression in terms of speaking, presentation, and media video. Her advice includes: prepare speeches, deliberately craft a voice, use good lighting, and connect heart to soul; and, when performing, be a personal trainer and the welcoming person in the room. "The older one gets the more sophisticated tools and equipment you'll need to add to your orchestra and your palette," she says.
She has described her writing process as "doing more than write, clear the desk, then write from the heart, and let the words flow."