Barbara Castle

Known for: Acting

Born: October 5, 1910 in Chesterfield, Derbyshire, England, UK - Died: May 2, 2002

Barbara Anne Castle, Baroness Castle of Blackburn, PC was a British Labour Party politician who was the Member of Parliament for Blackburn from 1945 to 1979, making her the longest-serving female MP in the history of the House of Commons until that record was broken in 2007 by Gwyneth Dunwoody.