Barbara Steele
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.
Known For
Castlevania
Miranda (voice)
Night Gallery
The Widow Craighill
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
Phyllis
Celebrity Ghost Stories
Self
Adventures in Paradise
Dolores
War and Remembrance
Elsa MacMahon
Pretty Baby
Josephine
The Winds of War
Mrs. Stoller
Dark Shadows
Dr. Julia Hoffman / Countess Natalie du Pres
Dark Shadows
Dr. Julia Hoffman
Dark Shadows
Countess Natalie du Pres
8½
Gloria Morin
Lost River
Belladonna
Shivers
Betts
Piranha
Dr. Mengers
Dim Dam Dom
Self
The Pit and the Pendulum
Elizabeth Barnard Medina
Caged Heat
Supt. McQueen
Deep Above
Mrs. Wagner
Black Sunday
Princess Asa Vajda / Katia Vajda
Fellinopolis
Self - Actress (archive footage)
Minutes Past Midnight
The Apparition of the Mill (segment 'The Mill At Calder's End')
Houseboat
Minor Role (uncredited)
For Love and Gold
Teodora
Sapphire
Student
A History of Horror
Self
Money
Ciao, Federico!
Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
Curse of the Crimson Altar
Lavinia Morley
The 39 Steps
Extra
Young Törless
Bozena
Terror-Creatures from the Grave
Cleo Hauff
The She Beast
Veronica
The Butterfly Room
Ann
White Voices
Guilia
Silent Scream
Victoria Engels
Nightmare Castle
Muriel Arrowsmith / Jenny Arrowsmith
Easy Love
Contessa Bardi-Stucchi (segment "Divorzio italo-americano")
Lost Soul: The Doomed Journey of Richard Stanley's Island of Dr. Moreau
Self (archive footage)
Dracula in the Movies
(archive footage)