Barbie Wilde


Barbie Wilde is a Canadian-born British actress and writer, perhaps best known for appearing as the Female Cenobite in – the second of ten Hellraiser films based on Clive Barker's novella, The Hellbound Heart.

Early life and career

Born in Canada in 1960 and raised in the United States, she studied classical mime with Desmond Jones in London and in 1978 joined his company, SILENTS, at that time the largest mime company in Britain. In 1979, along with Robert Pereno, LA Richards, Carole Caplin, Tim Dry and Sean Crawford, Miss Wilde formed. SHOCK toured with Depeche Mode and Classix Nouveaux in the early 1980s and supported Adam and the Ants at The Venue, Ultravox at The Rainbow Theatre and Gary Numan at Wembley Arena. SHOCK released two singles with RCA Records: 'Angel Face' and 'Dynamo Beat' produced by Richard James Burgess of Landscape.
In 1986 she robotically mimed with British TV legends Morecambe and Wise in their Christmas TV Special of 1983 and appeared as a robotic mime as part of the duo Technical Glamour on The Sooty Show, the longest running children's TV program in the UK. As well as ', her other film appearances include Death Wish 3 starring Charles Bronson and ' starring Charlie Sheen, George Clooney and Laura Dern.
In the 1980s, Miss Wilde wrote and hosted 'The American Hot 100' as well as 'The Morning Show' & 'Supersonic' for Music Box, where she interviewed Jimmy Somerville from Bronski Beat, Roger Meddows-Taylor of Queen and The Sisters of Mercy. In 1987, Miss Wilde presented a long-running music show for Granada Television called 'Hold Tight', where she interviewed such pop personalities as Cliff Richard, John Lydon, Iggy Pop, The B-52's, Black, Pepsi & Shirlie and Lisa Stansfield. In 1988, she wrote and presented 'The Small Screen', a film review program for the Night Network on London Weekend Television, where she interviewed actor Hugh Grant. In the 1990s, Miss Wilde hosted a live music program, 'The Gig', for London Weekend Television and the movie history program, 'Sprockets' for Sky Digital Television.
Barbie Wilde has also worked as an assistant casting director for the BBC production of The Buddha of Suburbia and as a casting director for MTV's London production of The Real World.

Writing

Short horror stories by Barbie Wilde include 'Sister Cilice' for the anthology 'Hellbound Hearts', edited by Paul Kane and Marie O'Regan and inspired by Clive Barker's Hellraiser universe; 'U for Uranophobia' for the anthology 'Phobophobia' , 'American Mutant: Hands of Dominion' for 'Mutation Nation: Tales of Genetic Mishaps, Monsters, and Madness' and 'Polyp' for 'The Mammoth Book of Body Horror'.
Barbie Wilde's first dark crime novel, 'The Venus Complex', was published by Comet Press on 1 November 2012. Wilde has been called "...one of the finest purveyors of erotically charged horror fiction around" by Fangoria Magazine, Issue No. 320. And Gabino Iglesias of Horror Talk placed 'The Venus Complex' in his Top Books of 2012, saying: "A novel by a female Cenobite that gives the world a smart, artistic, cynical, cultured serial killer who could give Hannibal Lecter a run for his money. On top of that, this is a poignant, funny, sexually-charged, hardcore critique of popular culture and a deconstruction of relationships, academia, and art."