Barbara Steele profile
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Barbara Steele

29th December 1937 Birkenhead, Cheshire, England, UK Acting

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.

67 Movies 12 TV Shows 85 Credits
Filmography

Movies & TV Shows

Fellinopolis poster
Fellinopolis 10th June 2021 as Self - Actress (archive footage)
Piranha poster
Piranha 3rd August 1978 as Dr. Mengers
Easy Love poster
Easy Love 3rd October 1964 as Contessa Bardi-Stucchi (segment "Divorzio italo-americano")
Les baisers poster
Les baisers 14th May 1964 as Thelma (Episode 3: 'Baiser du soir')
The Maniacs poster
The Maniacs 28th March 1964 as Barbara (segment "l'hobby") / Brugnoli's Wife (segment "la cambiale")
8½ poster
8½ 14th February 1963 as Gloria Morin
Black Sunday poster
Black Sunday 11th August 1960 as Princess Asa Vajda / Katia Vajda
Houseboat poster
Houseboat 19th November 1958 as Minor Role (uncredited)
Dark Shadows poster
Dark Shadows 13th January 1991 as Dr. Julia Hoffman / Countess Natalie du Pres