Barbara Steele

What happens when you take one of the most beautiful actresses of the 1960’s and cast her in Italian horror films? This formula turned out to be a success for Barbara Steele, especially for her performance in Black Sunday. Her other successful Italian films include The Ghost, Castle of Blood, The Horrible Dr. Hitchcock, Nightmare Castle, The Long Hair of Death, and Terror-Creatures from the Grave. Despite being part of several Italian films, she was actually born in the UK, where she studied and pursued a degree at the Chelsea Art School before moving to Paris to study at the Sorbonne.

Steele also appeared in several other films in the 2010s, with an outstanding performance in a lead role in the Italian thriller-horror, The Butterfly Room, and a supporting role in the 2014 mystery drama Lost River directed by Ryan Gosling. The British film actress also worked on TV in the miniseries Dark Shadows.