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Barbara Crampton was born 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)

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Barbara Crampton

American actress

Barbara Crampton

Crampton in 2017

Born (1958-12-27) December 27, 1958 (age 66)

Levittown, New York, U.S.

EducationCastleton State College (BA)
OccupationActress
Years active1983–present
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Children2

Barbara Crampton (born December 27, 1958)[1][2] is an American actress and producer. She began her career in the 1980s in television soap operas before starring in horror and thriller films.[3] In 2024, Crampton was inducted into the Rondo Hatton Classic Horror Awards' Monster Kid Hall of Fame.[4]

Crampton made her television debut on the daytime drama Days of Our Lives (1983–84) before a supporting role as Leanna Love on the soap opera The Young and the Restless (1987–93, 1998–2002, 2006–07 & 2023). Later in her career, she would appear in television horroranthologies such as Syfy's Channel Zero: The Dream Door (2018), Hulu's Into the Dark (2019), and Shudder's Creepshow (2021).

She made her film debut in Body Double (1984), but

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Barbara Crampton

Connection to the Mythos

Actress

Birth Date

27 December 1958

Birthplace

Levittown, New York, USA

Nationality

United States

Barbara Crampton(born 27 December 1958) is an award-winning American actress and producer who has appeared in a number of movies adapted from the fiction of H. P. Lovecraft; the majority of these productions were filmed with director Stuart Gordon, screenwriter Dennis Paoli, and fellow screen Mythosregular Jeffrey Combs. Most of her early roles, and a large number of her later ones, are in the horror and science fiction genres, Crampton having made her name in the low-budget movie industry,

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