Biography
Melissa Stribling (7 November 1926 – 22 March 1992) was a Scottish film and television actress. Born Melissa Stribling Smith in Gourock, she began her professional career in 1948 with repertory companies, including a season at the Grand Theatre, Croydon. Her screen debut came the same year in the film The First Gentleman.
She is best known for playing Mina Holmwood in the Hammer Films production Dracula (1958), opposite Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing. Other film roles include Peggy in The League of Gentlemen (1960) and appearances in The Persuaders! (1971) and The New Avengers (1976). Her final screen role was in Paris by Night (1988).
Stribling was married to film director Basil Dearden; their son James Dearden is a screenwriter and director.
