- Was separated from second husband Warren Cowan in 1969 at the time she learned of first husband Jeffrey Hunter's sudden death following brain surgery after falling down a flight of stairs.
- Attended and graduated from the University of California, Santa Barbara, in 1948.
- Is mentioned in Shampoo (1975), when hairdresser Warren Beatty says, "I do Barbara Rush's hair".
- Along with Leonard Nimoy, David McCallum, Cliff Robertson and Peter Breck, she is one of only five actors to appear in both The Outer Limits (1963) and The Outer Limits (1995) and the only woman to do so. She played Leonora Edmond in The Forms of Things Unknown (1964) and Barbara Matheson in The Balance of Nature (1998). She was the last survivor of the five actors.
- As of May 1997 resided in the Harold Lloyd estate in Beverly Hills, CA, where her next-door neighbor was David Geffen.
- Mother of Christopher Hunter and Claudia Cowan.
- Daughter Claudia Cowan is a journalist for the television channel Fox News.
- Graduated from the Pasadena Playhouse School for Performing Arts in Pasadena, California.
- Appears in No Down Payment (1957) with ex-husband Jeffrey Hunter, both portraying married characters, but not married to each other.
- Aunt of Carolyn Hennesy.
- Turner Classic Movies honored her with the "Barbara Rush Memorial Tribute" on 3 September 2024, a day-long showing of her films.
- Under contract to Paramount Pictures in 1951, she was part of the studio's illustrious "Golden Circle of Newcomers".
- Broke her leg in a skiing accident in 1972, causing her to walk with crutches for almost two months.
- Is one of the oldest and most faithful clients of Carrie White's hair salon.
- Sister-in-law of Dale Hennesy
- Co-starred in a TV movie called The Night the Bridge Came Down. Incidentally, she died a few days after a notable bridge collapse (the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore, Maryland).
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