Born 2/27/64, Barbara Dare became one of porn's top 40 leading performers.

Her real name is Stacy Mitnick. Outside of porn she uses Stacy Nix.

She grew up in Wayne, New Jersey and attended Wayne Hills high school.

Dare frequented the notorious New York swingers club Plato's Retreat in the mid '80s. She became so popular she was voted Miss Plato. As an extension of her lifestyle, Barbara entered porn in 1986 with a bang, becoming one of the the first persons to sign an exclusive contract with a porn production company - a $100,000 deal with Essex Video. Eventually she became a Vivid girl before retiring. In 1993, Barbara returned to Vivid to work in public relations before quitting a couple of years later. She now strips across the U.S. and Canada. Poverty keeps her working.

Barbara turned in a great performance in The Naked Stranger, playing a villain who enters the lives of the unhappily-married Ariel Knight and Tom Byron.

Dare performed many of the all-time best lesbian scenes - with Nina Hartley in Sorority Pink 2, with April West in Torrid, True Love and Where the Boys Aren't, with Tori Welles in Where the Boys Aren't, and with Alice Springs in L.A. Stories.

Dare categorically refused to have sex with blacks.

Barbara considered starring in Vivid's 1996 film Bobby Sox but decided to staunch her financial bleeding another way - through moving in with her parents.

Gossip columnist A.J. Benza published an autobiography in 2001 where he describes a fling with Barbara Dare.