Biografi
Barbara Freyde, an actress born in Berlin, initially trained as a tailor's apprentice. At sixteen, director Georg Tressler discovered her at a clothing store and, despite her lack of acting experience, cast her as the female lead opposite Horst Buchholz in his 1958 romantic drama Two Worlds. However, her voice was later dubbed by Johanna von Koczian. Screenwriter Will Tremper also shortened her surname from Freyde to Frey. After receiving acting lessons from Marlise Ludwig, Barbara was once again cast by Tressler to portray troubled teenagers in social dramas. Similarly, she appeared in the Marcel Ophüls-directed segment of the anthology film Love at Twenty (1962), playing a single mother searching for her child's father. Later, her roles primarily included lighter genres such as crime dramas (Mann im Schatten, 1961; Das Haus auf dem Hügel, 1964), comedies (Brave Diebe, 1965), and spaghetti westerns (Uno straniero a Sacramento, 1965; Five Thousand Dollars on One Ace, 1965).
During the filming of the Italian-Spanish-German period adventure I cento cavalieri (1964), Barbara began a relationship with the film's American lead, Mark Damon. They became a couple and married in 1971, though their marriage lasted only two years. Damon and Barbara co-starred again in Carlo Lizzani's western Requiescant (1967), with Damon portraying a deranged ex-Confederate officer and Barbara playing a girl forced into prostitution, ultimately rescued by the gunslinger hero played by Lou Castel. Possibly due to a shortage of suitable roles, Barbara abruptly left acting in 1972. Her final screen appearance was an uncredited role as a nurse in George Roy Hill's Slaughterhouse-Five (1972).
