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Barbara Steele

Dec 29, 1937 (87 years old) in Birkenhead, Cheshire, England, UK

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.

Known For

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House of Wax: Unlike Anything You've Seen Before!
Self
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Castlevania
Miranda (voice)
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Night Gallery
The Widow Craighill
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Lost Soul: The Doomed Journey of Richard Stanley's Island of Dr. Moreau
Self (archive footage)
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Adventures in Paradise
Dolores
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Behind the Swinging Blade
Self
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Alfred Hitchcock Presents
Phyllis
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Mary Woronov: Cult Queen
Self
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Boia, maschere e segreti: l’horror italiano degli anni sessanta
Self
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The Hours of Love
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