Biografia

She was slightly injured by Vincent Price while filming her last scene from O Poço e o Pêndulo (1961) when he quite aggressively grabbed her by her throat - she shrugged it off because the scene came off so real.

The role of Alice LeBlanc in A Noite dos Desesperados (1969) was written by James Poe - her husband - specifically for her, but the studio would not accept her and eventually fired Poe, too. Sydney Pollack eventually directed the film and the role was given to Susannah York instead.

She has one child, a son named Jonathan Jackson Poe who was born on August 11, 1970 in Los Angeles with her ex-husband, James Poe.

Has appeared in A Maldição do Altar Escarlate (1968) with three other cinema horror masters: Boris Karloff, Michael Gough and Sir Christopher Lee.

She was the original female lead to Elvis Presley in Estrela de Fogo (1960). She walked off the picture after an argument with director Don Siegel.

You can't live off being a cult.

[on her career in the documentary A-Z of Horror (1997)] I usually played these roles where I represented the dark side. I was always a predatory bitch goddess in all of these movies, and with all kinds of unspeakable elements. Then what is life without a dark side? The driving force of drama is the dark side. These women that I played usually suffered for it, and I guess men like that.

[From Calvin Thomas Beck's book "Scream Queens"] I hate graves and all those things. I began with too many horror films. This is dangerous. Horror films are made for directors, not for actors. One never thinks of the character of the people or their psychology. One always follows the same dramatic pattern. That's what I object to about nearly all these films - they always exploit the same fears. (...) I love witchcraft, the supernatural. All that's intuitive. I don't like people who are too rational.

I was born in Ireland. It's a humid and green country. Not at all like Rome. I was born on the same day as Fellini... but not the same year. I'm, therefore, a Capricorn.

It's easy to know my mood. I'm thin when I'm happy, but, during all the seasons, my eyes are green, my hands too big and my legs too long.