Lara Parker, who found the role of a lifetime at just 28 years old when she was cast by Dark Shadows producer Dan Curtis as the beautiful, vengeful and altogether evil witch Angelique Bouchard Collins ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Marc Berman is a New York-based reporter who covers media. Dark Shadows took a “bite," so to speak, out of the network daytime ...

Lara Parker, known for her role as the witch Angelique in the ABC gothic soap opera “Dark Shadows,” died in her sleep on Oct. 12 at her home in the Topanga Canyon neighborhood of Los Angeles, her ...

Her three-dimensional portrayal of a character who was also a vampire helped the Gothic soap opera develop a cult following. By Alex Williams Lara Parker, who found small-screen fame in the 1960s and ...

Lara Parker, who as the vengeful witch Angelique Bouchard spent centuries entangled in a love-hate relationship with Jonathan Frid’s Barnabas Collins on the gothic ABC soap opera Dark Shadows, has ...

In her first professional acting gig, she battled the vampire Barnabas Collins on the ABC daytime serial. Years later, she wrote four novels based on the show. By Mike Barnes Senior Editor Lara Parker ...