
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.
Awards & recognition
- Time Machine Award · 2012
Filmography32 titles

Master of Dark Shadows

Castlevania

8½

Dark Shadows

Night Gallery

Alfred Hitchcock Presents

Black Sunday

Celebrity Ghost Stories

Ciao, Federico!

Castle of Blood

Pretty Baby

Sapphire

The Pit and the Pendulum

Lost Soul: The Doomed Journey of Richard Stanley's Island of Dr. Moreau

Young Törless

Shivers

Houseboat

An Angel for Satan

The Long Hair of Death

The 39 Steps

The Ghost

Be Pretty and Shut Up!

Piranha

Terror-Creatures from the Grave

The Horrible Dr. Hichcock

Lost River

Nightmare Castle

Curse of the Crimson Altar

Caged Heat

The She Beast

Minutes Past Midnight

The Capitol Conspiracy