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 8Β½ (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 (1988β89). 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 abo...
Pretty Baby
1978
Sapphire
1959
8Β½
1963
Fear in the Dark
1991
Lost River
2015
Theatre of Horrors: The Sordid Story of Paris' Grand Guignol
2025
Piranha
1978
Fellinopolis
2021
The Ghost
1963
Shivers
1975
Caged Heat
1974
Parasite Memories: The Making of 'Shivers'
2014
For Love and Gold
1966
The 39 Steps
1959
The Pit and the Pendulum
1961
Houseboat
1958
Castle of Blood
1964
Black Sunday
1960
The Butterfly Room
2012
Young TΓΆrless
1966
Upstairs and Downstairs
1959
Lost Soul: The Doomed Journey of Richard Stanley's Island of Dr. Moreau
2014
The Long Hair of Death
1964
Curse of the Crimson Altar
1968
The Capitol Conspiracy
1998
Master of Dark Shadows
2019
Nightmare Castle
1965
Be Pretty and Shut Up!
1981
Terror-Creatures from the Grave
1965
The She Beast
1966
Mary Woronov: Cult Queen
N/A
Hollywood Rated 'R'
1997
The Heart of a Man
1959
Silent Scream
1979
The American Nightmare
2000
Deep Above
1994
The Mill at Calder's End
2015
The Hours of Love
1963
Italian Kings Of B
2003
Minutes Past Midnight
2016