Acting credits
75
Prolific
Very extensive acting filmography.
Actor
Barbara Steele
Acting
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Movies: 66Series: 9Crew credits: 1
TMDB ID: 5685
IMDb ID: nm0824489
Known for: Acting
Born: December 29, 1937
Age: 88
Place of birth: Birkenhead, Cheshire, England, UK
Gender: Female
Adult content flag: No
Career span: 1955 - 2025
Years active: 71
Average TMDB rating: 6.52
Wikidata: Q266240
Also known as
芭芭拉·斯蒂尔 • Барбара Стіл • Barbara Steel
Other jobs
Producer (1)
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).
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Movies
Movie credits linked with Barbara Steele.
Theatre of Horrors: The Sordid Story of Paris' Grand Guignol
as (Voice)
2025 Movie
6.4
Fellinopolis
as Self - Actress (archive footage)
2021 Movie
8.5
Hangmen, Masques and Secrets: Italian Horror in the Sixties
as Self
2019 Movie
9.1
Master of Dark Shadows
as Self
2019 Movie
4.8
Minutes Past Midnight
as The Apparition of the Mill (segment 'The Mill At Calder's End')
2016 Movie
6.3
The Phantom
as The Widow
2016 Movie
5.7
Lost River
as Belladonna
2015 Movie
6.5
The Mill at Calder's End
as The Apparition of the Mill
2015 Movie
6.3
The Shutterbug Man
as Narrator
2014 Movie
5.5
Parasite Memories: The Making of 'Shivers'
as Self
2014 Movie
6.7
Lost Soul: The Doomed Journey of Richard Stanley's Island of Dr. Moreau
as Self (archive footage)
2014 Movie
Behind the Swinging Blade
as Self
2014 Movie
House of Wax: Unlike Anything You've Seen Before!
as Self
2013 Movie
5.7
The Butterfly Room
as Ann
2012 Movie
Barbara Steele in Conversation
as Self
2009 Movie
5.3
The Boneyard Collection
as Vanessa Peabody (segment "Her Morbid Desires")
2008 Movie
6.0
Mario Bava: Operazione paura
as Self
2004 Movie
6.0
Italian Kings Of B
as Self
2003 Movie
6.8
The American Nightmare
as Self
2000 Movie
4.2
The Capitol Conspiracy
as Agent Oakley
1998 Movie
4.8
Hollywood Rated 'R'
as Self
1997 Movie
Deep Above
as Mrs. Wagner
1994 Movie
10.0
Fear in the Dark
as Self
1991 Movie
6.1
Be Pretty and Shut Up!
as Self
1981 Movie
Series
Series
Series credits linked with Barbara Steele.
8.3
Castlevania
as Miranda (voice) • 3 eps
2017 Series
7.1
A History of Horror
as Self • 3 eps
2010 Series
7.3
Celebrity Ghost Stories
as Self • 1 eps
2009 Series
7.7
Dark Shadows
as Dr. Julia Hoffman / Countess Natalie du Pres • 12 eps
1991 Series
7.8
War and Remembrance
as Elsa MacMahon (Singapore Christmas Party) • 1 eps
1988 Series
7.8
Night Gallery
as The Widow Craighill • 1 eps
1970 Series
6.0
Dim Dam Dom
as Self • 1 eps
1965 Series
5.7
Adventures in Paradise
as Dolores • 1 eps
1959 Series
7.8
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
as Phyllis • 1 eps
1955 Series