Mary Angela Barnett (born September 25, 1949), also known as Angie Bowie, is a Cypriot-American model, actress, and journalist.

She was married to Bowie (whom she assisted in conceptualizing the costumes for the Ziggy Stardust stage show) from 1970 until their divorce in 1980.

"[6] She was educated in Cyprus, Switzerland, and England (at Kingston Polytechnic), then moved to the U.S. to briefly attend Connecticut College until she was expelled after she had an affair with a fellow female student.

[11][12] Newsweek hypothesized in its February 11, 1974, issue that Angie Bowie lost out to Crosby because of her refusal to wear a bra.

[11] Later in 1975, Bowie bought the television rights to the Marvel Comics characters Black Widow and Daredevil, hoping to develop and sell a series featuring the two heroes.

[15] In March 1982, Bowie appeared on the television program The Old Grey Whistle Test, reciting poetry, while Mick Karn, from the band Japan, played bass.

Pennebaker concert film Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars (1973)[17] and Glitter Goddess of Sunset Strip (1991).

She also has had credited acting roles in at least four films: Eat the Rich (1987, as Henry's wife), Demented (1994), Deadrockstar (2002, as Bartender) and La Funcionaria Asesina (The Slayer Bureaucrat, 2009, as Helen Price/Constance).

Although she initially chose to stay in the house, she voluntarily decided to leave on January 19, in part on medical grounds.

The CD maxi-single "The World Is Changing", with six mixes, including prominent vocal support by Dabonda Simmons, was credited to Angie Bowie with co-composers David Padilla, Morgan Lekcirt, Tom Reich, Jim Durban and D.J.

[citation needed] The cover featured a logo of the Bowie name clearly modeled on the one seen on her former husband's Let's Dance releases.

She served as a "roving reporter" for the award winning transgender and drag monthly ‘Frock Magazine.’[33][34] In 2002, she wrote a Pocket Essentials book titled Bisexuality.

[37] The couple married one year later, on March 19, 1970, at Bromley Register Office in Beckenham Lane, Kent.

She stated that David's drug habit had become so out of control that she believed giving him the responsibility of raising their son would stabilize him.

[41] (During a backstage sequence in the concert film Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars, David calls Angie by the name Star).

It stopped when my father changed his will to not include an educational trust fund for Zowie because David divorced me.

[47] The fictional character of Mandy, portrayed by Toni Collette in the film Velvet Goldmine, was based upon Bowie.