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Barbara Steele (born December 29, 1937 in Birkenhead) is an English actor. She's best known as the scream queen of Italian gothic horror movies of the 1960s. Her breakthrough role came in Italian director Mario Bava's Black Sunday (1960). It's now hailed as a masterpiece of the Italian gothic horror film.[1] Steele starred in a string of horror classics including: The Horrible Dr. Hichcock (1962), The Ghost directed by Riccardo Freda, as well as the Roger Corman adaptation of Edgar Allan Poe's short story "The Pit and the Pendulum."
According to Kim Newman's Nightmare Movies, she is on record as saying that she never wanted "to climb out of another fucking coffin again".
R. H. W. Dillard entitled his first collection of poems The Day I Stopped Dreaming About Barbara Steele (1966)
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