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Baramulla (film)

Baramulla is a 2025 Hindi supernatural horror thriller on Netflix, directed by Aditya Suhas Jambhale, starring Manav Kaul as a cop probing child disappearances in Kashmir, tied to the Kashmiri Pandit exodus; 54% on Rotten Tomatoes.

Baran (باران)

Baran (باران, "Rain") is Majid Majidi's 2001 Iranian drama about Lateef, an Iranian worker who falls for Rahmat, an Afghan girl disguised as a boy; it won six Fajr Crystal Simorghs and the Montreal Grand Prize and was Iran's Oscar entry.

Baran bo Odar

Baran bo Odar, born 1978 in Olten, Switzerland, is a director and screenwriter; with Jantje Friese he created Dark, the first German Netflix series (2017–2020), and 1899 (2022), after the features The Silence and Who Am I.

Barb and Star Go to Vista Del Mar

Barb and Star Go to Vista Del Mar (Barb & Star Go to Vista Del Mar) is a 2021 American comedy directed by Josh Greenbaum, written by and starring Kristen Wiig and Annie Mumolo of Bridesmaids, with Jamie Dornan; released on PVOD February 12, 2021, it holds 81% on Rotten Tomatoes and became a pandemic cult favorite.

Barb Wire (1996 film)

Barb Wire (1996), David Hogan action-science-fiction film starring Pamela Anderson as the bounty hunter Barb Wire, based on the Dark Horse Comics character by Chris Warner; released May 3, 1996, grossed $3,793,614 against its budget and was panned by critics.

Barbara (2012 film)

Barbara is Christian Petzold's 2012 German drama, also known as Barbara (2012), starring Nina Hoss as an East German doctor punished for an exit visa application. It won the Silver Bear for Best Director at Berlin 2012 and was Germany's Oscar nominee.

Barbara Alyn Woods

Barbara Alyn Woods (born 1962, Chicago) is an American actress known as Diane Szalinski in Honey, I Shrunk the Kids: The TV Show and Deb Scott on One Tree Hill, later in Chucky, and mother of actresses the Lind sisters.

Barbara Anderson (actress)

Barbara Jeanne Anderson (born 1945), American retired actress; former Miss Memphis; played Officer Eve Whitfield on Ironside (1967–1971), winning a 1968 Emmy; also Star Trek's Lenore Karidian and Mission: Impossible's Mimi Davis; distinct from the ex-Jehovah's Witness activist of the same name.

Barbara Babcock

Barbara Babcock (born 1937) is an American retired character actress who won the 1981 Emmy for playing Grace Gardner on Hill Street Blues, and later Dorothy Jennings on Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman.

Barbara Bach

Barbara Bach (Barbara Ann Goldbach), American actress and model, Bond girl Anya Amasova in The Spy Who Loved Me (1977), Force 10 from Navarone; married Ringo Starr in 1981; retired from acting in 1986.

Barbara Bain

Barbara Bain, American actress (born Mildred Fogel), Emmy-winning Cinnamon Carter on Mission: Impossible (1966-69, three consecutive Emmys) and Dr. Helena Russell on Space: 1999; also stage actress and Book PALS literacy founder.

Barbara Barrie

Barbara Barrie (Barbara Ann Berman, born 1931) is an American actress and author, Cannes Best Actress winner for One Potato, Two Potato (1964), Oscar-nominated for Breaking Away, and the original Sarah in Company.

Barbara Bel Geddes

Barbara Bel Geddes (1922–2005), American stage, film, and TV actress; Miss Ellie on Dallas (1978–1990, Emmy 1980), Oscar-nominated for I Remember Mama, originated Maggie in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof.

Barbara Billingsley

Barbara Billingsley (Barbara Lillian Combes, 1915-2010), American actress, June Cleaver on Leave It to Beaver (1957-1963), Airplane! jive cameo (1980), Nanny voice on Muppet Babies; distinct from any namesake.

Barbara Bouchet

Barbara Bouchet, born 1943 in Reichenberg, is a German-born Italian actress, Hollywood starlet of the 1960s, icon of 1970s commedia sexy, and 2026 Nastro d'Argento winner for Finale: Allegro.

Barbara Broccoli

Barbara Broccoli (Barbara Dana Broccoli, born 1960) is an American film and theatre producer who, with half-brother Michael G. Wilson, produced the James Bond films from GoldenEye (1995) to No Time to Die (2021), won the 2024 Thalberg Award, and ceded creative control of Bond to Amazon MGM in 2025.

Barbara Carrera

Barbara Carrera (born Barbara Kingsbury) is a Nicaraguan-born former model, actress, and painter, famous as Fatima Blush in Never Say Never Again (1983) and Angelica Nero on Dallas; birth year disputed (1945 vs 1952).

Barbara Colby

Barbara Colby (1939-1975), American stage, film, and TV actress; Broadway's The Devils, A Doll's House; Columbo's Lilly La Sanka; murdered in Venice, California. Not Barbara Heinzen Colby, CIA director's wife.

Barbara Crampton

Barbara Crampton (born 1962) is an American actress and producer, a horror-genre mainstay since Re-Animator (1985) and From Beyond (1986) with Stuart Gordon, also known for soap roles on The Young and the Restless and Guiding Light and her 2010s–2020s revival in You're Next and Jakob's Wife.

Barbara Dare

Barbara Dare, stage name of Stacy Mitnick (born 1963), American retired pornographic actress of the 1980s video era; first Essex Video and Vivid contract star, 1987 AVN Best New Starlet, AVN and XRCO Hall of Fame inductee.

Barbara Dunkelman

Barbara Julie Dunkelman (born 1989, Montreal) is a Canadian voice actress and podcaster, the voice of Yang Xiao Long in RWBY, Rooster Teeth's first community manager and later creative director, host of Always Open, and co-founder of the independent Stinky Dragon podcast company.

Barbara Eden

Barbara Eden (born Barbara Jean Morehead, 1931, Tucson) is an American actress and singer best known as Jeannie in NBC's I Dream of Jeannie (1965-1970), later Harper Valley P.T.A., Dallas, and Jeannie reunion films.

Barbara Feldon

Barbara Feldon (Barbara Anne Hall, born 1933), American actress and former model, best known as Agent 99 on the spy sitcom Get Smart (1965-70) opposite Don Adams; two Emmy nominations, $64,000 Question winner, author of Getting Smarter.

Barbara Flynn

Barbara Flynn (Barbara Jay McMurray), English actress born 1948 in Hastings, known for A Family at War, the Beiderbecke trilogy, Cracker, Cranford, Kate & Koji, and Beyond Paradise.

Barbara Forever

Barbara Forever (2026) is Brydie O'Connor's debut documentary about lesbian experimental filmmaker Barbara Hammer (1939-2019), built from her five-decade archive. It won the Sundance Jonathan Oppenheim Editing Award and the Berlinale Teddy Award for Best Documentary.

Barbara Goodson

Barbara Goodson (Barbara Dale Goodson) is an American voice actress, born 1949 in Brooklyn, best known as the English voice of Rita Repulsa in Power Rangers, Laharl in Disgaea, Mother Talzin in Star Wars: The Clone Wars, and Turbo Granny in Dandadan.

Barbara Hale

Barbara Hale (1922–2017), American actress, Emmy winner 1959, played Della Street on CBS's Perry Mason (1957–1966) with Raymond Burr and in 29 TV movies (1985–1995); film career began at RKO in 1943; wife of actor Bill Williams, mother of William Katt.

Barbara Harris (actress)

Barbara Densmoor Harris (1935-2018), American actress and improv pioneer; co-founder of The Second City, 1967 Tony winner for The Apple Tree, Oscar-nominated for Who Is Harry Kellerman, star of Freaky Friday and Hitchcock's Family Plot.

Barbara Hershey

Barbara Hershey (born Barbara Lynn Herzstein, 1948) is an American actress of Hannah and Her Sisters, Black Swan, and The Portrait of a Lady. She won Cannes Best Actress two years running (Shy People 1987, A World Apart 1988), an Emmy, and an Oscar nomination, and briefly used the stage name Barbara Seagull.

Barbara Knox

Barbara Knox, also known as Barbara Mullaney, is an English actress best known for playing Rita Tanner on ITV's Coronation Street, a role she has held continuously since 1972.