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Barbara Kwiatkowska-Lass
Barbara Kwiatkowska-Lass (Barbara Lass), Polish film actress (1940–1995), debut star of Ewa chce spać, first wife of Roman Polański, later wife of Karlheinz Böhm, Radio Free Europe collaborator in Munich.
Barbara Loden
Barbara Loden, American actress and filmmaker, wife of Elia Kazan, wrote, directed, and starred in Wanda (1970), her only feature, which won the Venice Critics' Prize, was later reclaimed as a feminist landmark, and ranked in the 2022 Sight and Sound poll.
BarBara Luna
BarBara Luna is an American actress whose career spans Broadway, films, and television, best remembered as Marlena Moreau in the 1967 Star Trek episode "Mirror, Mirror".
Bárbara Mori
Bárbara Mori (Bárbara Mori Ochoa), Uruguayan-Mexican actress born 1978 in Montevideo, star of the telenovela Rubí (2004), the film Kites, and Apple TV+'s Las Azules; producer via Lua Producciones and breast cancer survivor.
Barbara Nichols
Barbara Nichols (Barbara Marie Nickerauer, 1928-1976), American character actress of brassy comic roles; known for Sweet Smell of Success, Pal Joey, The Pajama Game (1957), Broadway's Let It Ride, and TV guest roles; died of liver failure at 47.
Barbara Niven
Barbara Niven (Barbara Lee Bucholz), American actress, writer, and producer born 1953 in Portland, Oregon; Hallmark staple known as Megan O'Brien in Chesapeake Shores, Peggy Beldon in Cedar Cove, Delores in Hannah Swensen Mysteries, and Marilyn Monroe in The Rat Pack.
Barbara Parkins
Barbara Parkins is a Canadian actress and photographer, born in 1942 in Vancouver, best known for Peyton Place and the 1967 film Valley of the Dolls.
Barbara Payton
Barbara Payton (Barbara Lee Redfield, 1927-1967), American film actress of 1949-1955, star of Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye with James Cagney, whose career collapsed after the 1951 Tom Neal-Franchot Tone brawl and who died at 39.
Barbara Pepper
Barbara Pepper, born Marion Pepper, was an American actress known for brassy Hollywood film roles of the 1930s and 1940s and for playing Doris Ziffel on Green Acres.
Barbara Rhoades
Barbara Rhoades (born 1946 or 1947, Poughkeepsie, New York), also credited as Barbara Rhodes, is an American actress known for Penelope 'Bad Penny' Cushings in The Shakiest Gun in the West (1968), Donna in The Goodbye Girl, and Soap's Maggie Chandler.
Barbara Ruick
Barbara Ruick (Barbara Joan Ruick, 1932-1974), American actress and singer, MGM contract player, Carrie Pipperidge in Carousel (1956), stepsister Esmerelda in Cinderella (1965), wife of composer John Williams, died of a cerebral hemorrhage in Reno.
Barbara Rush
Barbara Rush (1927–2024), American film, TV, and stage actress; Golden Globe-winning star of It Came from Outer Space, Magnificent Obsession, The Young Philadelphians, and Peyton Place.
Barbara Shelley
Barbara Shelley (Barbara Teresa Kowin, 1932-2021), British actress known as the "Queen of Hammer" for 1960s horror films including Dracula: Prince of Darkness, The Gorgon, and Quatermass and the Pit, plus Village of the Damned and Doctor Who.
Barbara Stanwyck
Barbara Stanwyck (Ruby Stevens, 1907–1990), American actress of stage, film, and TV; four-time Oscar nominee, honorary Oscar 1982, three Emmys; star of Double Indemnity, The Lady Eve, and TV's The Big Valley.
Barbara Steele
Barbara Steele, British actress born in Birkenhead, star of Mario Bava's Black Sunday (1960) and the iconic face of Italian gothic horror; also appeared in Fellini's 8½, Corman's The Pit and the Pendulum, and Cronenberg's Shivers.
Barbara Trentham
Barbara Trentham (Barbara Lynn Schilling, 1944-2013), American model and actress, cover model in London, played Daphne in Rollerball (1975), married John Cleese, mother of Camilla Cleese, died in Chicago of leukemia.
Barbara Turner (screenwriter)
Barbara Turner (Gloria Rose Turner), American screenwriter and actress (1936–2016), mother of Jennifer Jason Leigh; wrote Petulia, Georgia, Pollock, The Company, Hemingway & Gellhorn; Emmy and WGA nominee.
Barbara Windsor
Barbara Windsor (Barbara Ann Deeks, 1937–2020), English actress, star of nine Carry On films and Peggy Mitchell in EastEnders 1994–2016; BAFTA and Tony nominee, made Dame in 2016.
Barbara Wright (Doctor Who)
Barbara Wright (Doctor Who) is a fictional First Doctor companion, a Coal Hill School history teacher played by Jacqueline Hill from An Unearthly Child (1963) to The Chase (1965), the first human woman to travel in the TARDIS.
Barbarella (film)
Barbarella (1968), Roger Vadim's French-Italian sci-fi comedy starring Jane Fonda, adapted from Jean-Claude Forest's comic; produced by Dino De Laurentiis, released by Paramount, now a camp cult classic.
Barbarian (2022 film)
Barbarian is a 2022 American horror film written and directed by Zach Cregger in his solo feature directorial debut, starring Georgina Campbell, Bill Skarsgård, and Justin Long.
Barbarians (2020 TV series)
Barbarians, known in German as Barbaren, is a 2020 German historical drama series on Netflix, set in 9 A.D. and based on the Battle of the Teutoburg Forest.
Barbecue Showdown
Barbecue Showdown (originally The American Barbecue Showdown) is a Netflix reality competition series, premiered September 18, 2020, in which American pitmasters compete for the American Barbecue Champion title and a $50,000 prize, judged by Kevin Bludso and Melissa Cookston across three seasons.
Barbenheimer
Barbenheimer: portmanteau for the July 21, 2023 same-day release of Greta Gerwig's Barbie and Christopher Nolan's Oppenheimer and its viral meme phenomenon; $235.5M combined domestic opening, nearly $2.5B worldwide, Japan controversy, and imitators like Glicked.
Barbershop (film)
Barbershop is a 2002 American comedy-drama directed by Tim Story, following Ice Cube's Calvin Palmer over one day as he tries to buy back his South Side Chicago barbershop.
Barbershop 2: Back in Business
Barbershop 2: Back in Business is a 2004 American comedy film directed by Kevin Rodney Sullivan, the sequel to Barbershop, in which Ice Cube's Calvin Palmer defends his South Side Chicago barbershop.
Barbershop: The Next Cut
Barbershop: The Next Cut is a 2016 American comedy-drama, the third in the Barbershop series, directed by Malcolm D. Lee and starring Ice Cube and Regina Hall.
Barbet Schroeder
Barbet Schroeder (born 1941, Tehran) is a French-Swiss director and producer, co-founder of Les Films du Losange with Eric Rohmer, director of More, General Idi Amin Dada, Barfly, and the Oscar-nominated Reversal of Fortune.
Barbie (film)
Barbie (2023) is Greta Gerwig's live-action comedy based on the Mattel doll, starring Margot Robbie and Ryan Gosling; it earned $1 billion in 17 days, became 2023's top film, and received eight Oscar nominations.
Barbie & Teresa: Recipe for Friendship
Barbie & Teresa: Recipe for Friendship (Barbie y Teresa: La receta de la amistad) is a 2025 Mattel Television CG animated special, directed by Karen J. Lloyd, premiering March 6, 2025 on Netflix, in which the two Barbies help Teresa open her cousin's New York tamale restaurant.