Barbara Dare
American pornographic actress
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Barbara Dare (born February 27, 1963) is an American former pornographic actress.[1] She was one of the industry's initial contract performers with Essex Video[2] and Vivid Entertainment[3] and is an AVN[4] and XRCO Hall of Fame inductee.[5]
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- Kim Wilde
- Stacey Nixx
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| Born | February 27, 1963 Wichita Falls, Texas, U.S. |
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| Height | 5 ft 2 in (1.57 m) |
Personal life
Barbara Dare was born on February 27, 1963 in Wichita Falls, Texas.[2] After her father, a dentist, left the Air Force, the family moved to Wayne, New Jersey.[2] She was raised in the Jewish faith.[2] Early in her professional career, Dare self-identified as a lesbian, having personal relationships with women.[6]
Dare spent several years addicted to drugs, including heroin. She got sober and became a Certified Addiction and Substance Abuse Counselor.[7]
Career
Dare began appearing in adult films in the mid-1980s after meeting people who were involved in the adult film industry at Plato's Retreat[8] and also made appearances in magazines such as Hustler, Swank, and High Society. In 1989, she joined fellow adult film actress Stephanie Rage as authors of a monthly article for Swank.[9]
Dare was one of the top adult film stars of the 1980s.[10] She appeared in scenes with several (at the time) top adult films stars, including Tracey Adams and Ginger Lynn.[3] She became one of the first women in the industry to sign an exclusivity contract with Essex Video for 10 movies a year and an annual salary of $150,000[11] and would later leave that studio to sign with Vivid Entertainment and become one of the earliest Vivid Girls.[12] Dare's final film was Bratgirl (1992); she retired in 1994.[1]
Jerry Butler stated in his autobiography that Dare had a "commanding screen presence" while on set, in spite of her smaller physical stature.[13]
Dare also worked as a stripper, commanding a $10,000 weekly salary.[14] The club "wound up making money with her. Place was packed."[15]
Appearances
Dare was interviewed in 1987 for the episode of the television news series Frontline regarding the death of Shauna Grant.[16]
She also had minor roles in mainstream productions such as the Roy Scheider and Ann-Margret film 52 Pick-Up in 1986[17] and the live-action/animated comedy-horror B-movie Evil Toons (where she was credited as "Stacey Nix") in 1992.[18]
In the August 1992 issue of Esquire, Dare was profiled in their annual feature "Women We Love".[19][20]
Selected filmography
- Hannah Does Her Sisters (1986)
- Slippery When Wet (1986)
- Blame it on Ginger (1986)
- Barbara the Barbarian (1987)
- Ginger and Spice (1987)
- Girls who Dig Girls 8 (1988)
- Barbara Dare's Bad (1988)
- Angela Baron Takes a Dare (1988)
- Sex in Dangerous Places (1988)
- For Her Pleasure Only (1989)
- Ginger then and Now (1990)
- Where the Boys Aren't 2 (1990)
- Bratgirls (1992)
Awards
- 1987 AVN Award – Best New Starlet[21]
- 1987 XRCO Award – Starlet of the Year[22]
- 1989 AVN Award – Best Actress, Video (Naked Stranger)[21]
- 1990 AVN Award – Best All-Girl Sex Scene, Video (True Love) with April West[21]
- AVN Hall of Fame inductee[4]
- XRCO Hall of Fame inductee[5]