Barbara Waring (Barbara Alice Waring Gibb; 1 August 1911 – April 1990) was an English actress, screenwriter, and playwright.
Barbara Alice Waring Gibb was born on 1 August 1911 in Kent, England, the daughter of Dr. J. A. Gibb.[1] She attended the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art,[2] and was an actress in the 1930s and 1940s.
In the late 1930s she married Laurence A. Evans, a theatrical agent. They divorced and in 1947 she married the Hon. Geoffrey Cunliffe, son of Walter Cunliffe, 1st Baron Cunliffe, and Edith Cunningham Boothby, and Chairman of British Aluminium.
In 1963, she wrote the script for Two by the Sea and in 1974 that for Easter Tells Such Dreadful Lies.[3] In 1967, she wrote the play The Jaywalker, performed at Coventry Cathedral with music by Duke Ellington.
She died in April 1990, aged 78, in Surrey, England.