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Barbara Crampton

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Barbara Crampton was born on December 27, 1958 in Levittown, New York. Growing up in Vermont, she spent the majority of her childhood summers traveling the country with a roadside carnival that her father worked for. Crampton began acting in school plays in seventh grade and subsequently studied drama in high school. She earned a BA in Theater Arts from Castleton State College and, following graduation, portrayed "Cordelia" in an American Theater of Actors production of "King Lear" in New York.

The young actress then moved to Los Angeles and, in 1983, made her TV debut with a recurring role on the popular daytime soap opera Days of Our Lives (1965). The following year she had a brief, but memorable role in Brian De Palma's Body Double (1984), which was followed by the 1985 comedy Fraternity Vacation (1985). Barbara achieved enduring cult popularity as college coed Megan Halsey in Stuart Gordon's Re-Animator (1985) and, after making a splash in the horror genre, successively starred in From Beyond (1986), Chopping Mall (1986), Puppet Master (1989), and Castle Freak (1995), among others.

Outside of horror, Barbara had recurring roles on daytime television soap operas Guiding Light (1952); The Bold and the Beautiful (1987), and The Young and the Restless (1973), for which won a Soap Opera Digest Award.

Years after retiring from acting to raise a family, Crampton returned to film in 2011 with a role in Adam Wingard's You're Next (2011). She subsequently appeared in number of new films, the majority of which were horror. Highlights of her return include The Lords of Salem (2012), We Are Still Here (2015), and Beyond the Gates (2016).

Crampton's hobbies include skiing, yoga, horseback riding, running, working out with weights, and shopping for antiques at flea markets. She lives outside of San Francisco with her husband, Robert Bleckman, and their two children.
BornDecember 27, 1958
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Barbara Crampton in Castle Freak (2019)
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Brandon Scott and Barbara Crampton Channel Zero: The Dream Door 2018
Bucheon International Fantastic Film Festival (BIFAN) - 2018
Barbara Crampton in Alone with You (2021)
Barbara Crampton in Pipe Screams/Within the Walls of Madness (2021)
John Bloom and Barbara Crampton in Castle Freak (2019)
Barbara Crampton in Sun Choke (2015)
Barbara Crampton and Sarah Hagan in Sun Choke (2015)
Barbara Crampton and Sarah Hagan in Sun Choke (2015)

Known for

From Beyond (1986)
From Beyond
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  • Dr. Katherine McMichaels
  • 1986
Lane Hughes in You're Next (2011)
You're Next
6.6
  • Aubrey
  • 2011
We Are Still Here (2015)
We Are Still Here
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  • Anne Sacchetti
  • 2015
Jeffrey Combs in Re-Animator (1985)
Re-Animator
7.2
  • Megan Halsey
  • 1985

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Actress

  • The Last Stop in Yuma County
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  • Snow Valley
    • Post-production
  • Suitable Flesh
    • Post-production
  • Blackout
    • Post-production
  • Onyx the Fortuitous and the Talisman of Souls (2023)
    Onyx the Fortuitous and the Talisman of Souls
  • Dota: Dragon's Blood (2021)
    Dota: Dragon's Blood
    • (voice)
  • Back 4 Blood (2021)
    Back 4 Blood
    • (voice)
  • Emily Bennett in Alone with You (2021)
    Alone with You
  • Gracie Gillam in Superhost (2021)
    Superhost
  • Matthew Gray Gubler and Angela Sarafyan in King Knight (2021)
    King Knight
  • Creepshow (2019)
    Creepshow
  • Barbara Crampton and Larry Fessenden in Jakob's Wife (2021)
    Jakob's Wife
  • Barbara Crampton in Psycho Re-Animated (2021)
    Psycho Re-Animated
  • Barbara Crampton, Sophie Stevens, and Ludovic Hughes in Sacrifice (2020)
    Sacrifice
  • Stay Home (2020)
    Stay Home
  • Treat Williams, Thomas Jane, Radha Mitchell, April McCullough, Britton Sear, Olly Sholotan, Isabel May, and Eli Brown in Run Hide Fight (2020)
    Run Hide Fight
  • Deathcember (2019)
    Deathcember
  • Into the Dark (2018)
    Into the Dark
  • Sage Mears and Brie Mattson in Stay Out Stay Alive (2019)
    Stay Out Stay Alive

Producer

  • Suitable Flesh
    • Post-production
  • Ryan Kwanten in Glorious (2022)
    Glorious
  • Barbara Crampton and Larry Fessenden in Jakob's Wife (2021)
    Jakob's Wife
  • Castle Freak (2020)
    Castle Freak
  • Barbara Crampton, Graham Skipper, Brea Grant, and Chase Williamson in Beyond the Gates (2016)
    Beyond the Gates
  • Andrew Simpson in Road Games (2015)
    Road Games
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'Sun Choke': Pool
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Alone with You
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Alone with You
Superhost
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Superhost
Jakob's Wife
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Jakob's Wife

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    • December 27, 1958
    • Levittown, Long Island, New York, USA
    • Robert BleckmanDecember 3, 2000 - present (2 children)
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    • 3 Pictorials
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    Has appeared in four adaptions of H.P. Lovecraft's stories: Re-Animator (1985), From Beyond (1986), Castle Freak (1995), and The Evil Clergyman (2012).
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    I like a man who is a real man. No mambi pambi bullshit. A man of few words and big action. Intelligent and who can make me laugh.

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