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Barbie Wilde is best known as the Female Cenobite in the classic cult horror movie 'Hellbound: Hellraiser II'. She has performed in cabaret in Bangkok; appeared in the Bollywood blockbuster, 'Janbazz' (being the first classically trained robotic mime artist to perform in a Bollywood movie) and was a vicious mugger in 'Death Wish III'. Barbie also robotically mimed with British TV legends Morecambe & Wise and the famous TV hand puppet, Sooty.
In the early 1980's, Barbie danced professionally at the top nightclubs of New York City, London, and Amsterdam with the mime/dance/music group, SHOCK, which spawned the robotic duo, Tik and Tok. SHOCK supported such artists as Gary Numan, Ultravox and Adam & the Ants and released two singles on RCA Records: 'Angel Face' and 'Dynamo Beat'.
During her career as a television presenter, Barbie wrote the scripts for all of the programs that she appeared in, which include:
'The American Hot 100' (Skytrax TV)
'The Morning Show' and 'Supersonic' (Music Box TV)
‘The Small Screen', a film review program for London Weekend Television
'Hold Tight' a music show for Granada Television
'The Gig' for London Weekend Television.
Barbie presented the movie history program, 'Sprockets' which is still sporadically shown on various free-to-view channels such as The Horror Movie Channel on Sky Television UK. Barbie also co-wrote the scripts for Noir, the presenters of the Channel Four food program, ‘Feast’.
Over the years, Barbie has interviewed such pop personalities as Cliff Richard, Iggy Pop, John Lydon (AKA the Sex Pistol's Johnny Rotten), The Sisters of Mercy, Roger Taylor of Queen, Pepsi & Shirley, The B52's, Lisa Stansfield and Black, as well as actors Nicholas Cage and Hugh Grant.
Barbie has also worked as a film critic for the prestigious Film Review Annual; as an Assistant Casting Director for the BBC production of 'The Buddha of Suburbia'; and as the Casting Director for MTV's London production of 'The Real World'.
Barbie has completed her first crime novel, 'The Venus Complex', and is now working on her second book, entitled 'Skell'.