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Barbara Steele
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.
As actor
Theatre of Horrors: The Sordid Story of Paris' Grand Guignol
Ulalume - A Ballad
Fellinopolis
Master of Dark Shadows
Boia, maschere e segreti: l’horror italiano degli anni sessanta
Minutes Past Midnight
The Phantom
The Mill at Calder's End
Lost River
Lost Soul: The Doomed Journey of Richard Stanley's Island of Dr. Moreau
Behind the Swinging Blade
The Shutterbug Man
Parasite Memories: The Making of 'Shivers'
House of Wax: Unlike Anything You've Seen Before!
The Butterfly Room
Barbara Steele in Conversation
The Boneyard Collection
Mario Bava Speaks
Mario Bava: Operazione paura
Italian Kings Of B
The American Nightmare
The Capitol Conspiracy
Hollywood Rated 'R'
Vampire Cult Queens from Hell
Deep Above
Dracula in the Movies
Fear in the Dark
Be Pretty and Shut Up!
Silent Scream
Piranha