Barbara Steele
Known For
Acting
Born
1937-12-29 in Birkenhead, Cheshire, England, UK
Biography
Barbara Steele (born 29 December 1937) is an English actress and producer, known for starring in Italian gothic horror films of the 1960s. She has been referred to as the "Queen of All Scream Queens" and "Britain's first lady of horror". She played the dual role of Asa and Katia Vajda in Mario Bava's landmark film Black Sunday (1960), and starred in The Pit and the Pendulum (1961), The Horrible Dr. Hichcock (1962), The Long Hair of Death (1964), and Castle of Blood (1964). Additionally, Steele had supporting roles in Federico Fellini's 8½ (1963), David Cronenberg's Shivers (1975), Joe Dante's Piranha and Louis Malle's Pretty Baby (both 1978), and appeared on television in the 1991 TV series Dark Shadows. She won a Primetime Emmy Award for producing the American television miniseries War and Remembrance (1988–89). Steele appeared in several films in the 2010s, including a lead role in The Butterfly Room (2012) and supporting role in Ryan Gosling's Lost River (2014). Description above from the Wikipedia article Barbara Steele, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Most Known For
Night Gallery
as The Widow Craighill
Castlevania
as Miranda (voice)
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
as Phyllis
Adventures in Paradise
as Dolores
Celebrity Ghost Stories
as Self
Dark Shadows
as Dr. Julia Hoffman / Countess Natalie du Pres
Sapphire
as Student
Pretty Baby
as Josephine
War and Remembrance
as Elsa MacMahon (Singapore Christmas Party)
Dim Dam Dom
as Self
8½
as Gloria Morin
Fellinopolis
as Self - Actress (archive footage)
Young Törless
as Bozena
Piranha
as Dr. Mengers
A History of Horror
as Self
The She Beast
as Veronica
Houseboat
as Minor Role (uncredited)
Shivers
as Betts
Caged Heat
as Supt. McQueen
White Voices
as Guilia