Barbra Paskin

Barbra Paskin is a British journalist who has been writing, producing and broadcasting from Los Angeles since becoming the BBC's first Hollywood correspondent in the mid '70s. She is best recognized for her expansive coverage of arts and entertainment in Los Angeles. Her interviews have ranged from arts luminaries such as Luciano Pavarotti, Mikhail Baryshnikov, Placido Domingo, Zubin Mehta, David Hockney and Sir John Gielgud, to hundreds of legendary names from Hollywood's Golden Age, among them John Wayne, Henry Fonda, Cary Grant, George Raft, Danny Kaye, Sammy Davis Jr, Charlton Heston, Rock Hudson, David Niven, Bette Davis, Katharine Hepburn, George Cukor, Orson Welles, Mae West and Alfred Hitchcock. She has interviewed many of Hollywood's current stars and has worked on a vast number of prestigious and award-winning BBC documentary series that have been seen around the world. Her interviews have also been featured by American broadcasters, among them, Ted Turner's TNT documentaries