# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/barbara-steele
# Generated: 2026-08-12T18:59:59.276Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/barbara-steele"
name: "Barbara Steele"
slug: "barbara-steele"
description: "Barbara Steele 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)."
tagline: "British actress"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Barbara-steele-trailer.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Actors"
  slug: "actors"
profileType:
  name: "Actor"
  slug: "actor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1937-12-29"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           54.29
  momentum:             0
  historical:           22.23134666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0824489/"
    handle:    "nm0824489"
sources:
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    title: "バーバラ・スティール"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Barbara Steele"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Barbara Steele"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Barbara Steele"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Стил, Барбара"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/5685"
    title: "Barbara Steele"
    type:  "DATABASE"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump