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…

Filmography

• 8½ as Gloria Morin
• Pretty Baby as Josephine
• Black Sunday as Princess Asa Vajda / Katia Vajda
• For Love and Gold as Teodora
• Hollywood Rated 'R' as Self
• Piranha as Dr. Mengers
• The 39 Steps as Extra
• Shivers as Betts
• Curse of the Crimson Altar as Lavinia Morley
• Silent Scream as Victoria Engels

TV

• Alfred Hitchcock Presents as Phyllis
• Castlevania as Miranda (voice)
• Night Gallery as The Widow Craighill
• Adventures in Paradise as Dolores
• Dark Shadows as Dr. Julia Hoffman / Countess Natalie du Pres
• War and Remembrance as Elsa MacMahon (Singapore Christmas Party)
• A History of Horror as Self
• Celebrity Ghost Stories as Self
• Dim Dam Dom as Self