Mission: Impossible star, 93, unrecognisable nearly 60 years later-Meghna Amin-Entertainment – Metro

Barbara Bain was pictured in Los Angeles ahead of Christmas (Picture: BACKGRID)

Mission: Impossible star Barbara Bain has been pictured during a rare outing in Los Angeles.

The 93-year-old is best known for her role as Cinnamon Carter Crawford on the TV series Mission: Impossible, which aired from 1966 to 1973.

She starred alongside Steven Hill, Greg Morris and Peter Lupus for the first three seasons, as well as her husband Martin Landau who she married in 195 before divorcing in 1993.

Her role in the CBS action series, which inspired the Tom Cruise films, led to three Primetime Emmy awards and a Golden Globe nomination.

She also starred in British sci-fi show Space: 1999 as Dr Helena Russell, and in films Animals with the Tollkeeper, Panic, Forget Me Not and On The Rocks.

Her earlier TV appearances included in Tightrope, The Law and Mr Jones, Adventures in Paradise and Straightaway, and later in Walker, Texas Ranger, and an episode of CSI: Crime Scene Investigation.

Barbara was best known as Cinnamon Carter in Mission: Impossible (Picture: Silver Screen Collection/Getty Images)

She won three Primetime Emmy awards and a Golden Globe nomination (Picture: CBS via Getty Images)

The Mission: Impossible television star was spotted loading up her groceries in Los Angeles (Picture: BACKGRID)

She rose to fame in the 60s (Picture: BACKGRID)

Her most recent roles include in an episode of Space Command in 2020, and voicing a character in Ben 10: Alien Force, alongside her daughter Juliet Landau.

Pictured on Christmas Eve in Los Angeles, Barbara was seen loading up her car with groceries at Bristol Farms.

She wore dark grey trousers and a black hoodie, as well as a cream cap and sunglasses covering her face.

Following her pioneering role in Mission: Impossible as a leading agent, Barbara spoke about being a woman at the forefront of a TV show.

She wore a dark hoodie and trousers, and drove herself in a Mercedes after shopping (Picture: BACKGRID)

Her career has lasted over six decades (Picture: BACKGRID)

She starred alongside the likes of Peter Graves, Peter Lupis, Greg Morris and Martin Landeau, who she later married (Picture: Bettmann Archive)

She said: ‘There wasn’t a woman in that regard on television at the time.

‘Young women were writing to me and saying: “I never thought of becoming a so-and-so, but because of watching you on Mission: Impossible, I’m going to get my degree.

‘As the years have gone on, I have gotten a lot of comments like that.

‘For example, I just received a letter from a woman who has retired from NASA and said that she was inspired to pursue her dream because of watching me on Mission: Impossible.’

She added, according to MailOnline: ‘I’m just extraordinarily moved by all of this. You’re not sure of the impact you have while you’re doing it. I’m forever being stopped in markets and told these stories, which is just great.’

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