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  "description": "From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia\n\nBarbara Shelley (born 13 February 1932) was an English film and television actress.\n\nShe 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 (1966), Rasputin, the Mad Monk (1966), 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.\n\nShe also appeared in Village of the Damned (1960) and in the 1984 Doctor Who serial Planet of Fire.\n\nIn 2010, writer and actor Mark Gatiss interviewed Shelley about her career at Hammer Films for his BBC documentary series A History of Horror.\n\nShe died on 3 January 2021, at the age of 88.\n\nDescription above from the Wikipedia article Barbara Shelley, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.\n\n​",
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