Barbara Dare

Barbara Dare is an American former adult-film performer, actress, and feature dancer whose career is identified with the late 1980s video era. Born Stacy Gayle Mitnick in Wichita Falls, Texas, in the United States, in 1963, she also worked under the professional names Stacey Mitnick, Kimberly Dare, and Kim Wilde. Her early career began in New York before she moved to California, where she signed contract deals with Essex Video and later Vivid. Her adult-film work began in the mid-1980s, and her career eventually included more than 100 features in total.

Blame It on Ginger (1986) was a feature and one of her major early video-era credits. In 1987 she won the AVN Best New Starlet award, which was a major newcomer honor. Naked Stranger (1988) was a video feature, and her performance in it won the 1989 AVN Best Actress — Video award. True Love (1989) was a feature, and her performance in it shared the 1990 AVN Best All-Girl Sex Scene award with April West. Evil Toons (1992) was an R-rated feature film in which she played the role of Jan in Fred Olen Ray's horror-comedy.

Dare retired from film work in the early 1990s. After leaving film work, her post-film career was centered on feature dancing, and she toured extensively as a feature dancer. In 1999 she was inducted into the XRCO Hall of Fame, and she later also entered the AVN Hall of Fame as well.