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).
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Filmography
Acting Credits (85)
Theatre of Horrors: The Sordid Story of Paris' Grand Guignol
(Voice)
2025
Ulalume - A Ballad
Narrator: opening credits (voice)
2023
Fellinopolis
Self - Actress (archive footage)
2021
Executioners, Masks, Secrets: Italian Horror in the Sixties
Self
2019
Master of Dark Shadows
Self
2019
