Barbara Dare

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Barbara Dare
Born (1963-02-27) February 27, 1963 (age 62)
Wichita Falls, Texas, U.S.
Other names
  • Kimberly Dare
  • Kim Wilde
  • Stacey Nixx
  • Stacey Nix
Height5 ft 2 in (1.57 m)

Barbara Dare (born February 27, 1963) is an American former pornographic actress. [1] She was one of the industry's initial contract performers with Essex Video [2] and Vivid Entertainment [3] and is an AVN [4] and XRCO Hall of Fame inductee. [5]

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Personal life

Dare was born in Wichita Falls, Texas. [2] After her father, a dentist, left the Air Force, the family moved to Wayne, New Jersey. [2] She was raised in the Jewish faith. [2] Early in her professional career, Dare self-identified as a lesbian, having personal relationships with women. [6]

Dare spent several years addicted to drugs, including heroin. She got sober and became a Certified Addiction and Substance Abuse Counselor. [7]

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 [8] 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. [9]

Dare was one of the top adult film stars of the 1980s. [10] She appeared in scenes with several (at the time) top adult films stars, including Tracey Adams and Ginger Lynn. [3] 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 [11] and would later leave that studio to sign with Vivid Entertainment and become one of the earliest Vivid Girls. [12] Dare's final film was Bratgirl (1992); she retired in 1994. [1]

Jerry Butler stated in his autobiography that Dare had a "commanding screen presence" while on set, in spite of her smaller physical stature. [13]

Dare also worked as a stripper, commanding a $10,000 weekly salary. [14] The club "wound up making money with her. Place was packed." [15]

Appearances

Dare was interviewed in 1987 for the episode of the television news series Frontline regarding the death of Shauna Grant. [16]

She also had minor roles in mainstream productions such as the Roy Scheider and Ann-Margret film 52 Pick-Up in 1986 [17] and the live-action/animated comedy-horror B-movie Evil Toons (where she was credited as "Stacey Nix") in 1992. [18]

In the August 1992 issue of Esquire, Dare was profiled in their annual feature "Women We Love". [19] [20]

Selected filmography

Awards

References

  1. 1 2 Barbara Dare at the Internet Adult Film Database
  2. 1 2 3 4 Dare, Barbara (2016-02-21). "Barbara Dare: A Curious Woman". The Rialto Report . Retrieved 21 February 2016.
  3. 1 2 Rutter, Jared. "Vivid's 25th Anniversary: How Steven Hirsch's Company Thrust Porn Into Mainstream America". Adult Video News. Archived from the original on 18 December 2013. Retrieved 2 January 2014.
  4. 1 2 "AVN Hall of Fame". Archived from the original on 20 October 2007. Retrieved 2007-11-29.
  5. 1 2 "XRCO Hall of Fame". Archived from the original on July 20, 2011. Retrieved 2007-11-29.
  6. ↑ Bright, Susie (1990). Susie Sexpert's lesbian sex world . Cleis Press. p.  100. ISBN   978-0939416356.
  7. ↑ "Barbara Dare: A Curious Woman - Podcast 58". The Rialto Report. 21 February 2016. Retrieved 9 August 2023.
  8. ↑ Cote, Neil (20 August 1990). "Fighting censorship with a Dare". The Tampa Tribune. Retrieved 21 February 2018.
  9. ↑ Swank Magazine, March 1990
  10. ↑ Jennings, David (2000). Skinflicks : the inside story of the x-rated video industry. Bloomington, IN.: Distributed by 1st Books Library. ISBN   978-1587211843. Archived from the original on 2015-11-10. Retrieved 2014-03-06.
  11. ↑ Crouch, Gregory (1 May 1988). "Essex Video Faces Legal, Financial Setbacks : Pornographic Film Distributor Goes Bust; Company's President Busted". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 30 September 2015.
  12. ↑ Stars Shine For Vivid, Matt O'Conner, 2006-03-17, Accessed 2011-07-13
  13. ↑ Butler, Jerry (1990). Raw Talent: The Adult Film Industry as Seen by Its Most Popular Male Star. Prometheus Books. p. 147. ISBN   978-0879756253.
  14. ↑ Hume, Mark (21 March 1992). "On with the show". The Vancouver Sun. Retrieved 27 February 2020.
  15. ↑ "Article clipped from The Vancouver Sun". The Vancouver Sun. 1992-03-21. p. 6. Retrieved 2025-08-15.
  16. ↑ "Frontline: Season 5, Episode 13 - Death of a Porn Queen". IMDb. 8 June 1987. Retrieved 6 March 2014.
  17. ↑ "52 Pick-Up (1986) Full Cast & Crew". IMDb. Retrieved 6 March 2014.
  18. ↑ "Evil Toons (1992)". IMDb. 26 November 1993. Retrieved 6 March 2014.
  19. ↑ Bogosian, Eric (August 1992). Women We Love 1992. Esquire Magazine. Retrieved 9 June 2019.
  20. ↑ "Esquire loves women". Great Falls Tribune. 9 August 1992. Retrieved 9 June 2019.
  21. 1 2 3 "Past Winners". Archived from the original on 18 January 2014. Retrieved 2007-09-22.
  22. ↑ "Winners of XRCO Awards 1987".
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