Early years

Crampton was born in Levittown, Long Island, New York. She was raised in Vermont, and spent summers while growing up traveling the country with the carnival, as her father was a carny. She started acting in school plays when she was in seventh grade and went on to study acting in high school. She received a Bachelor of Arts degree in Theater Arts from Castleton State College in Vermont. After graduation, Barbara made a brief stop in New York, where she appeared as Cordelia in King Lear for the American Theater of Actors.

She was a Theater Arts Major at Castleton State College from 1976 to 1981.

Career

From New York, Crampton moved to Los Angeles where she went on to star in the cult horror features Re-Animator, From Beyond and Castle Freak. She also has feature roles in the films Puppet Master and Fraternity Vacation.

She made her television debut on the daytime drama Days of Our Lives, where she played Trista Evans Bradford. She went on to play Leanna Love on The Young and the Restless from 1987 to 1993, which earned her a Soap Opera Digest Award. She returned to the role from 1998 to 2002 and again in 2006-2007. She also played Melinda Lewis on Guiding Light from 1993 to 1995 and left when her contract expired and when she got engaged to L.A.-based actor and director Kristoffer Tabori in April 1995. By September of the same year, their engagement was called off. She soon joined the cast of The Bold and the Beautiful playing 'Maggie Forrester' Warwick from 1995 to 1998.

Crampton was a special guest at Creation Entertainment's Weekend of Horror 2010. She had a supporting role in the 2013 horror slasher film You're Next and played the leading role Anne Sacchetti in We Are Still Here (2015), co-starring Lisa Marie and Larry Fessenden. Both films received positive reviews from critics. Barbara next appears in Abner Pastoll's 'taut Euro thriller' Road Games, in which she speaks both French and English. In 2015 she starred along with Robert Englund, Danny Trejo, Kane Hodder, Bill Moseley, Michael Berryman, Doug Bradley, Gunnar Hansen, Ken Foree and Dee Wallace, in the Harrison Smith horror film Death House.

Personal life

On October 1, 1988, she married director of photography David Boyd; they divorced in 1990. In December 1986, Crampton appeared in a nude pictorial in Playboy magazine titled "Simply Beastly. Behind every successful monster, there's a woman." Crampton lives outside of San Francisco with her husband, Robert Bleckman, and their two children.

Filmography

Film

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1984	Body Double	Carol
1985	Fraternity Vacation	Chrissie
1985	Re-Animator	Megan Halsey
1986	Chopping Mall	Suzie Lynn
1986	From Beyond	Dr. Katherine McMichaels	Nominated - Saturn Award for Best Actress
1987	Kidnapped	Bonnie
1989	Puppet Master	Woman at Carnival	Cameo appearance
1991	Trancers II	Sadie Brady
1993	Robot Wars	Leda
1995	Castle Freak	Susan Reilly
1996	Space Truckers	Carol
1998	The Godson	Goldy
1999	Cold Harvest	Christine Chaney
2000	Learning to Surf
2001	Thy Neighbor's Wife	Nicole Garrett
2004	The Sisterhood	Ms. Master
2006	Read You Like a Book	Zoe
2008	Never Enough	Dr. Gladmore
2011	You're Next	Aubrey
2012	Pulse Pounders	Said Brady
2012	The Lords of Salem	Virginia Cable
2013	Paisley	Christine
2013	The Cartridge Family	Mom	Short film
2013	The Well	Grace
2014	Sun Choke	Irma
2015	We Are Still Here	Anne Sacchetti
2015	The Divine Tragedies	Mother
2015	Road Games	Mary
2015	Tales of Halloween	Darla
2015	Death House

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1983	Days of Our Lives	Trista Evans Bradford
1984	Rituals	Sandy Hutchison	Episode: "Pilot"
1984	Love Thy Neighbor	Carol	Movie
1984	Santa Barbara	Paula
1985	Hotel	Stacy	Episode: "Obsessions"
1986	Prince of Bel Air	Anne White	Movie
1987	Ohara	Teri	Episode: "Toshi"
1987-93, 1998-2002, 2006-07	The Young and the Restless	Leanna Love	Nominated - Soap Opera Digest Award for Outstanding Villainess in a Drama Series - Daytime (1990)
1993	Civil Wars		Episode: "Dances with Sharks"
1993-1995	Guiding Light	Mindy Lewis Spaulding
1995-1998	The Bold and the Beautiful	Maggie Forrester Warwick	Nominated - Soap Opera Digest Award for Outstanding Female Scene Stealer (1996)
1997	The Nanny	Barbara Crampton	Episode: "The Heather Biblow Story"
1998	Party of Five	Woman Shopper	Episode: "Tender Age"
1999	Pacific Blue	Gloria Stockwell	Episode: "Infierno"
2001	Spyder Games	Dr. Leslie Bogan	5 episodes
2001	Lightning: Fire from the Sky	Mayor Sylvia Scott	Movie

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