Actress and model Barbara Bach appeared almost unrecognizable during a rare public outing in Los Angeles earlier this week.

Now 80, Bach remains best known for playing a memorable Bond girl in one of the James Bond franchise’s most celebrated films of the 1970s.

She also appeared alongside Harrison Ford at the early stage of his rise as a major Hollywood leading man.

Although Bach built her reputation as a film actress, she first found success as a model during the 1960s. She later auditioned for Charlie’s Angels but did not land a role in the series.

Away from the screen, she is married to one of the most influential rock stars of the 1960s.

Can you identify the star?

The star is model, actress and Bond girl Barbara Bach.

Bach achieved her biggest screen success in 1977, when she played a leading role in the James Bond adventure The Spy Who Loved Me.

She is also married to Ringo Starr, the former Beatles drummer.

The Daily Mail said it had contacted a representative for Starr for comment, but had not received a response at the time of publication.

During her outing, Bach looked remarkably youthful in a relaxed outfit consisting of a black linen jacket, coordinating T-shirt and olive cargo trousers.

She tucked her long black hair beneath a black baseball cap and completed the look with a black handbag.

Bach was born Barbara Goldbach in 1946 in the Rosedale neighborhood of Queens, New York.

After shortening her last name, she became a sought-after fashion model in the 1960s, appearing on the covers of publications including American Vogue, photographed by Richard Avedon, French ELLE and Seventeen.

Bach made the jump to acting in 1968, when she played Nausicaa in an adaptation of Homer’s Odyssey shot for Italian TV, with Franco Rossi directing and Dino de Laurentiis producing.

In the early ’70s, she primarily worked on Italian productions, including comedies, crime thrillers and giallo horror films.

Years before she starred in The Spy Who Loved Me, she appeared in the Italian horror film Black Belly of the Tarantula with fellow Bond girls Claudine Auger – of Thunderball fame – and Barbara Bouchet, who had appeared in the 1967 version of Casino Royale.

Bach’s role as Anya Amasova in The Spy Who Loved Me increased her stature, as the film was praised by fans and critics after a string of divisive Bond films in the late ’60s and ’70s.

A year later, she starred with Harrison Ford and Robert Shaw in the sequel Force 10 from Navarone.

However, even with her high-profile Bond film, Bach continued acting primarily in Italian and European films until the ’80s, and she largely stepped away from the screen by the middle of that decade.

In 1980, she met former Beatle Ringo Starr, and the two were married at Marylebone Town Hall in April 1981.

Bach and Starr later checked into rehab together in 1988 after she had struggled with drug and alcohol use for years, and the two have since remained sober. In 1991, she joined Pattie Boyd, the ex-wife of both George Harrison and his friend Eric Clapton, to co-found the Self Help Addiction Recovery Program (SHARP). 

Bach has largely been retired from acting since the mid-’80s, aside from an uncredited appearance in Paul McCartney’s 2007 music video for Nod Your Head. 

A Baldwin High School student has won a teacher’s long-running challenge after earning a perfect score on New York’s Chemistry Regents exam—and a $100 cash prize.

Jojo Yawson surprised his teachers when his test, the last one graded, returned with a score of 100 following the June end-of-year exam.

“When it came back with 100, my jaw almost hit the floor. Literally the last kid,” chemistry teacher Anthony Simonelli told CBS New York on Friday.

Yawson’s perfect result arrives as New York begins moving toward a redesigned science exam and prepares to phase out Regents testing required for a high school diploma by 2028.

For 25 years, Simonelli has offered his students the same incentive: Anyone who scores 100 percent on the final exam receives a $100 bill personally delivered to their home.

The veteran teacher created the challenge to encourage students facing what is widely considered one of New York’s toughest Regents-level tests.

“I said, all right, here’s some motivation. I’ll give you 100 bucks. Any kid who gets 100,” Simonelli told CBS New York.

Yawson, who was a sophomore at the time, embraced the challenge and approached it in straightforward terms.

“I definitely believed it was possible,” he told the Long Island Herald. “You know, you just have to get all the questions right. Like, it’s not impossible.”

The real challenge, he said, was avoiding even the smallest error. “It’s mostly about just being very careful and not making any mistakes,” Yawson explained. “That’s the hard part.”

Still, when the exam was over, Yawson went home convinced that his performance had fallen short.

“I thought I did terrible. I went home dejected. I thought, I don’t know, I thought I missed at least a few questions,” he recalled.

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His doubts proved unfounded. Yawson scored 100 on the exam, allowing Simonelli to make good on his promise by presenting the student with a signed $100 bill.

The reward was a major source of motivation. “It did matter a lot. It wasn’t in the back of my mind, it was in the front of my mind,” Yawson said. The bill was marked with a “Thank you” message and Simonelli’s signature.

“Of course, it’s about the money,” Yawson joked. “Getting a perfect score—if they gave me $100 for getting a 50, I would have got a 50. It’s about the money.”

Yawson briefly considered putting the cash in a frame, though he may spend it instead. After all, this is not his first perfect score on a Regents exam.

As a freshman, he also earned a 100 on the Biology Regents.

His mother, Ama Karikari, said she was especially proud that her son achieved both scores while using the learning accommodations available to him during testing.

“I believe that it should really inspire students with accommodations and their families to recognize that having a learning difference can mean learning with excellence,” Karikari told the outlet.

Simonelli said Yawson may be among the final students to have the opportunity to win the challenge on the current Chemistry Regents. The exam is being redesigned to align with New York’s P-12 Science Learning Standards.

“There’s no way that the last kid that I’ll ever have the chance to have a 100 literally did it,” he said.

Ex-Gov. George Pataki has ripped the change that dumbed down the state’s high school diploma requirements being phased out as the Board of Regents looks for alternative graduation requirements.

“Getting rid of the Regents is incredibly stupid,” Pataki told The Post last week.

“It seems like the Education Department’s main function right now is to disguise the fact that too many New York State schools are failing to educate our kids,” he said.

“So instead of doing the appropriate testing so that corrective measures could be taken to improve [performance], they simply get rid of the tests to hide their failure.”

The U.S. Coast Guard said Saturday that it had found debris from a missing medical transport plane and would continue searching the waters off Massachusetts overnight for the six people aboard.

The debris field was discovered off Nantucket and confirmed to be from the missing Gulfstream G-100, according to the Coast Guard.

The Federal Aviation Administration notified the Coast Guard that air traffic controllers lost contact with the flight at about 2 a.m. Saturday. The aircraft was traveling from Bermuda to Boston at the time, the Coast Guard said.

Four Canadians and two Bermudans were aboard the plane.

The Bermuda Skyport Corporation, operator of LF Wade International Airport, said the Canadian-registered aircraft departed the airport at approximately 12:41 a.m. Saturday. Four crew members and two passengers were on board.

The air ambulance jet was communicating with New York air traffic controllers when its crew declared an emergency, according to air traffic audio obtained by ABC News.