Barbara Shelley

Barbara Shelley (born 15 August 1933) is an English film and television actress. She is now retired, but was at her busiest in the late 1950s (Blood of the Vampire) and 1960s when she became Hammer Horror's number one female star, with The Gorgon (1964), Dracula, Prince of Darkness (1965), Rasputin, the Mad Monk (1965), and Quatermass and the Pit (1967) among her credits. Although she is known as a scream queen, in fact her most famous scream (in... more

Barbara Shelley (born 15 August 1933) is an English film and television actress. She is now retired, but was at her busiest in the late 1950s (Blood of the Vampire) and 1960s when she became Hammer Horror's number one female star, with The Gorgon (1964), Dracula, Prince of Darkness (1965), Rasputin, the Mad Monk (1965), and Quatermass and the Pit (1967) among her credits. Although she is known as a scream queen, in fact her most famous scream (in the aforementioned Dracula film) was dubbed by co-star Suzan Farmer. She also appeared in Village of the Damned (1960) and in an episode of Doctor Who, "Planet of Fire", in 1984. less