Barbara Dare

Template:Short description Template:Infobox adult biography Barbara Dare (born February 27, 1963) is an American former pornographic actress.<ref name=iafd/> She was one of the industry's initial contract performers with Essex Video<ref name="Barbara Dare: A Curious Woman">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> and Vivid Entertainment<ref name=Vivid25th/> and is an AVN<ref name=avn1/> and XRCO Hall of Fame inductee.<ref name=xrco1/>

Personal life

Dare was born in Wichita Falls, Texas.<ref name="Barbara Dare: A Curious Woman"/> After her father, a dentist, left the Air Force, the family moved to Wayne, New Jersey.<ref name="Barbara Dare: A Curious Woman"/> She was raised in the Jewish faith.<ref name="Barbara Dare: A Curious Woman"/> Early in her professional career, Dare self-identified as a lesbian, having personal relationships with women.<ref name=Bright>Template:Cite book</ref>

Dare spent several years addicted to drugs, including heroin. She got sober and became a Certified Addiction and Substance Abuse Counselor.<ref >{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

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<ref name="TT">Template:Cite news</ref> 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.<ref>Swank Magazine, March 1990</ref>

Dare was one of the top adult film stars of the 1980s.<ref name=Skinflicks>Template:Cite book</ref> She appeared in scenes with several (at the time) top adult films stars, including Tracey Adams and Ginger Lynn.<ref name=Vivid25th>Template:Cite magazine</ref> 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<ref name=essex>Template:Cite news</ref> and would later leave that studio to sign with Vivid Entertainment and become one of the earliest Vivid Girls.<ref>Stars Shine For Vivid, Matt O'Conner, 2006-03-17, Accessed 2011-07-13</ref> Dare's final film was Bratgirl (1992); she retired in 1994.<ref name=iafd>Template:Iafd name</ref>

Jerry Butler stated in his autobiography that Dare had a "commanding screen presence" while on set, in spite of her smaller physical stature.<ref name=Butler1>Template:Cite book</ref>

Dare also worked as a stripper, commanding a $10,000 weekly salary.<ref name="TVS">Template:Cite news</ref> The club "wound up making money with her. Place was packed."<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

Appearances

Dare was interviewed in 1987 for the episode of the television news series Frontline regarding the death of Shauna Grant.<ref name=Frontline>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

She also had minor roles in mainstream productions such as the Roy Scheider and Ann-Margret film 52 Pick-Up in 1986<ref name=52pickup>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> and the live-action/animated comedy-horror B-movie Evil Toons (where she was credited as "Stacey Nix") in 1992.<ref name=EvilToons>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

In the August 1992 issue of Esquire, Dare was profiled in their annual feature "Women We Love".<ref name="esquire">Template:Cite book</ref><ref name="GFT">Template:Cite news</ref>

Awards

• 1987 AVN Award – Best New Starlet<ref name="Past Winners">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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• 1987 XRCO Award – Starlet of the Year<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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• 1989 AVN Award – Best Actress, Video (Naked Stranger)<ref name="Past Winners"/>
• 1990 AVN Award – Best All-Girl Sex Scene, Video (True Love) with April West<ref name="Past Winners"/>
• AVN Hall of Fame inductee<ref name=avn1>Template:Cite news</ref>
• XRCO Hall of Fame inductee<ref name=xrco1>Template:Cite news</ref>

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