Barbara Steele
Actor
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
Piranha
as Dr. Mengers 1978
Shivers
as Betts 1975
Lost River
as Belladonna 2015
Black Sunday
as Princess Asa Vajda / Katia Vajda 1960
Pretty Baby
as Josephine 1978
For Love and Gold
as Teodora 1966
The Pit and the Pendulum
as Elizabeth Barnard Medina 1961
Houseboat
as Minor Role (uncredited) 1958
The Butterfly Room
as Ann 2012
Lost Soul: The Doomed Journey of Richard Stanley's Island of Dr. Moreau
as Self (archive footage) 2014
Castle of Blood
as Elisabeth Blackwood 1964
Caged Heat
as Supt. McQueen 1974
Curse of the Crimson Altar
as Lavinia Morley 1968
Nightmare Castle
as Muriel Arrowsmith / Jenny Arrowsmith 1965
Minutes Past Midnight
as The Apparition of the Mill (segment 'The Mill At Calder's End') 2016
The Horrible Dr. Hichcock
as Cynthia Hichcock 1962