Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Birthdate
1937-12-29 (Age: 89)
Place of Birth
Birkenhead, Cheshire, England, UK
Barbara Steele
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.
Filmography (72)
Theatre of Horrors: The Sordid Story of Paris' Grand Guignol
2025Ulalume - A Ballad
2023
Fellinopolis
2021
Executioners, Masks, Secrets: Italian Horror in the Sixties
2019
Master of Dark Shadows
2019
Minutes Past Midnight
2016
The Phantom
2016
Lost River
2015
The Mill at Calder's End
2015
The Shutterbug Man
2014
Parasite Memories: The Making of 'Shivers'
2014
Lost Soul: The Doomed Journey of Richard Stanley's Island of Dr. Moreau
2014
Behind the Swinging Blade
2014
House of Wax: Unlike Anything You've Seen Before!
2013
