Barbara Niven

Barbara Niven

1953-02-26 Portland, Oregon, USA 81 Credits

Biography

Barbara Niven is an American actress, writer and producer, best known for her performances in Hallmark and Lifetime movies, and for television roles and independent films. She is also a motivational speaker, media trainer, and animal rights activist and spokesperson as a National Ambassador for American Humane.

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Pie To Die For: A Hannah Swensen Mystery

Pie To Die For: A Hannah Swensen Mystery

2025

as Delores Swensen

7.7
Acting

When Hannah's customer and Delores' theater rival is murdered, Hannah must find her killer in order to save her mother's reputation. Chad and Hannah's...

Reality Bites: A Hannah Swensen Mystery

Reality Bites: A Hannah Swensen Mystery

2025

as Delores Swensen

7.9
Acting

Hannah's favorite reality show takes over The Cookie Jar. When the producer is found dead, Hannah and Norman team up to track down the killer. Chad in...

Leah's Perfect Gift

Leah's Perfect Gift

2024

as Barbara

5.9
Acting

Leah Meyer, a Jewish woman who has always dreamed of experiencing a traditional Christmas, faces unexpected challenges when she spends the holidays wi...

A Sprinkle of Deceit: A Hannah Swensen Mystery

A Sprinkle of Deceit: A Hannah Swensen Mystery

2024

as Delores Swensen

7.2
Acting

Hannah and Chad flirt with their own paths to solve the same murder while working to clear a colleague who is implicated in the crime. Meanwhile, Delo...

One Bad Apple: A Hannah Swensen Mystery

One Bad Apple: A Hannah Swensen Mystery

2024

as Delores Swensen

6.5
Acting

Hannah Swensen has been asked to teach a baking class at the college in town, but her equipment is tampered with causing an explosion that the fire de...

The Last Word

The Last Word

2023

as Jillian Harper

Acting

Brett Harper is a successful novelist who depended on his wife Jillian to write the last paragraph of every book. And then, she died in a car accident...

Ms. Christmas Comes to Town

Ms. Christmas Comes to Town

2023

as Gayle

6.8
Acting

When Ms. Christmas, a shopping channel host, receives a terminal diagnosis, she heads on a multi-city excursion to spread Christmas cheer.

A Zest For Death: A Hannah Swensen Mystery

A Zest For Death: A Hannah Swensen Mystery

2023

as Delores Swensen

7.5
Acting

They say the real estate business is deadly, but no one is more surprised than Hannah Swensen when her mother, Delores, discovers the dead body of the...

Carrot Cake Murder: A Hannah Swensen Mystery

Carrot Cake Murder: A Hannah Swensen Mystery

2023

as Delores Swensen

6.9
Acting

A skeleton found in Lake Eden reveals the true identity of a beloved resident. Despite her fiancé's disapproval, Hannah investigates the murder and en...

Christmas at the Golden Dragon

Christmas at the Golden Dragon

2022

as Jane

6.5
Acting

When Romy and Rick’s parents surprise them with the news that they will be closing the Chinese restaurant they have owned and operated for decades, th...

North to Home

North to Home

2022

as Suzanne

7.1
Acting

Suzanne McBride is excited to spend her birthday with her family. It will be the first time that her three adopted daughters will be together in years...

The Christmas Contest

The Christmas Contest

2021

as Donna

6.1
Acting

Exes Lara and Ben compete in a Christmas contest to win money for the charity of their choosing. The city watches them battle and choose what is more ...

Sweet Revenge: A Hannah Swensen Mystery

Sweet Revenge: A Hannah Swensen Mystery

2021

as Delores Swensen

7.0
Acting

As Hannah and Mike experience engaged life while balancing their busy careers, a murder at a 24-hour gym complicates their wedding planning.

Crossword Mysteries: Riddle Me Dead

Crossword Mysteries: Riddle Me Dead

2021

as Candace

7.0
Acting

Tess gets invited to be a part of a popular game show, but when the host is unexpectedly murdered, she and Detective Logan O'Connor seek to uncover wh...

Crossword Mysteries: Terminal Descent

Crossword Mysteries: Terminal Descent

2021

as Aunt Candace

7.0
Acting

After volunteering to participate in a crossword solving competition with a new supercomputer, crossword puzzle editor Tess Harper finds herself swept...

Christmas in Evergreen: Bells Are Ringing

Christmas in Evergreen: Bells Are Ringing

2020

as Carol Shaw

5.7
Acting

As Michelle’s wedding approaches, Hannah steps up to help finish the launch of the new Evergreen museum while questioning her relationship and future ...

USS Christmas

USS Christmas

2020

as Elizabeth

6.8
Acting

Maddie, a reporter for a Norfolk newspaper, embarks on a Tiger Cruise during Christmastime where she meets a handsome naval officer and stumbles upon ...

Crossword Mysteries: Abracadaver

Crossword Mysteries: Abracadaver

2020

as Aunt Candace

8.0
Acting

During her birthday celebration, Tess and Logan find themselves swept up in a world that isn't always what it seems when the headlining magician at th...

Christmas In Evergreen: Tidings of Joy

Christmas In Evergreen: Tidings of Joy

2019

as Carol Shaw

6.7
Acting

A skeptical writer shows up in Evergreen to get the scoop on the town's famed passion for Christmas during a search for a long-lost time capsule.

Crossword Mysteries: Proposing Murder

Crossword Mysteries: Proposing Murder

2019

as Aunt Candace

7.5
Acting

When an old friend of New York Sentinel Crosswords editor Tess Harper is found murdered on the very day her puzzle includes his proposal of marriage, ...

Love Takes Flight

Love Takes Flight

2019

as Virginia Beauman

7.4
Acting

A workaholic hospital director is forced to re-examine her rigid lifestyle when a free-wheeling EMS pilot enters her life.

Crossword Mysteries: A Puzzle to Die For

Crossword Mysteries: A Puzzle to Die For

2019

as Aunt Candace

7.2
Acting

A crossword puzzle editor finds her life completely disrupted when several of the clues in her recent puzzles are linked to unsolved crimes, and she i...

Love on the Menu

Love on the Menu

2019

as Andrea

6.7
Acting

When chef Hank makes a deal with frozen food executive Maggie to save his restaurant, their unexpected attraction complicates matters, leaving Maggie ...

Christmas in Evergreen: Letters to Santa

Christmas in Evergreen: Letters to Santa

2018

as Carol Shaw

6.8
Acting

Lisa's trip home to Evergreen for the holidays finds her shepherding an effort to save the town's beloved general store, fulfilling the wishes of a Ch...

Christmas in Evergreen

Christmas in Evergreen

2017

as Carol

6.4
Acting

Allie, a veterinarian in Evergreen, reluctantly will spend Christmas with her long-distance boyfriend. Bound for the airport, she has engine trouble, ...

Habeas Corpus: The Making of 'Psycho Cop Returns'

Habeas Corpus: The Making of 'Psycho Cop Returns'

2017

as Herself

2.2
Acting

Retrospective documentary on the making of the low-budget horror slasher film Psycho Cop Returns (1993).

Murder, She Baked: Just Desserts

Murder, She Baked: Just Desserts

2017

as Delores Swensen

7.0
Acting

Hannah Swensen is thrilled when she is chosen as a guest for the first Eden Lake Dessert Bake-Off, but when fellow judge, Coach Bishop is found murder...

Campfire Kiss

Campfire Kiss

2017

as Beverly

6.5
Acting

Feeling disconnected with her teenage son, a protective mother decides to step outside of her comfort zone and take him camping. But as soon as she ar...

Murder, She Baked: A Deadly Recipe

Murder, She Baked: A Deadly Recipe

2016

as Delores Swensen

6.7
Acting

Bakery owner Hannah Swensen just can't keep her hands out of the batter when murder stirs things up in Lake Eden, Minnesota, leaving the sheriff dead,...

Murder, She Baked: A Peach Cobbler Mystery

Murder, She Baked: A Peach Cobbler Mystery

2016

as Delores Swensen

7.2
Acting

With The Cookie Jar, Hannah Swensen has a mouthwatering monopoly on the bakery business of Lake Eden, Minnesota. But when a rival store opens, and one...

Hamlet's Ghost

Hamlet's Ghost

2015

as Sarah Goodman

Acting

A modern Shakespearean actor must travel back in time to confront enigmatic forces from the past and future.

Murder, She Baked: A Plum Pudding Mystery

Murder, She Baked: A Plum Pudding Mystery

2015

as Delores Swensen

7.0
Acting

A young bakeshop owner’s holiday season takes a surprising turn when she finds a body at a local Christmas tree lot and winds up involved in a dangero...

Murder, She Baked: A Chocolate Chip Cookie Mystery

Murder, She Baked: A Chocolate Chip Cookie Mystery

2015

as Delores Swensen

7.1
Acting

Based on the New York Times bestselling book, Chocolate Chip Cookie Murder by Joanne Fluke, the film will take viewers on a mouthwatering mystery that...

Suburban Gothic

Suburban Gothic

2014

as Eve

5.5
Acting

An awkward, unemployed man who can talk to the dead teams up with a rebellious bartender to find the vengeful ghost that's been terrorizing their town...

Being Us

Being Us

2014

as Julie

5.0
Acting

When a woman with multiple personality disorder finds herself uncontrollably chasing danger, she's ready to end it all. Can a relationship with one go...

Meth Head

Meth Head

2013

as Madelaine

4.4
Acting

Kyle Peoples never wanted to be the man he has become in his 30s, an accountant stuck in a dead end job, with a lover who is more successful than he a...

Home Invasion

Home Invasion

2012

as Tricia Patterson

6.1
Acting

After a woman kills a home invasion robber in self-defense, his vengeful girlfriend befriends her at a crime victim support group and sets about tryin...

A Perfect Ending

A Perfect Ending

2012

as Rebecca Westridge

6.2
Acting

This intimate drama follows Rebecca, a woman who has kept her sexuality a secret from her friends but chooses to reveal it to a stranger. While Rebecc...

My Mother's Secret

My Mother's Secret

2012

as Evelyn Wells

5.9
Acting

When a woman becomes pregnant and tells the news to his mother is revealed to him that she is adopted. Then decides to search for his biological famil...

Gabe the Cupid Dog

Gabe the Cupid Dog

2012

as Ms. Andrews

7.0
Acting

When Eric and Marsha break off their long-term relationship, journalist Eric is able to weather it pretty well. He still has his long time canine comp...

Heat Wave

Heat Wave

2010

as Gouverneur Carol Quinlan

4.7
Acting

When a sudden, unexplained rise in local temperatures threatens to turn Los Angeles County into a parched, lifeless desert, one scientist must put her...

Accused at 17

Accused at 17

2009

as Claire Werner

6.3
Acting

A teenager is accused of murdering a classmate and claims that she was framed by her best friend. Her mother must try to find the truth.

Summer's Blood

Summer's Blood

2009

as Gaia Hoxey

5.5
Acting

A demented handyman comes to the rescue of a young woman, then imprisons her in his basement.

Black Widow

Black Widow

2008

as Tiffany Collins

4.9
Acting

Mel, a photo journalist, gets suspicious when her best friend Danny start dating Olivia a wealthy but mysterious woman. She enlists the help of her as...

Moonlight & Mistletoe

Moonlight & Mistletoe

2008

as Ginny

5.8
Acting

After three years, Nick's estranged daughter Holly returns home to find the spirit of Christmas in Santaville has dwindled, taking the family business...

Short Track

Short Track

2008

as Audrey Beckett

3.5
Acting

Carolinian Blake Beckett (Pepper Sweeney), the son of a stock car racing legend, is a 4-time short track racing champion. Blake never made it to the s...

Dead at 17

Dead at 17

2008

as Alyssa Harris

4.0
Acting

When Alyssa's 17-year-old son Jason commits suicide, something doesn't sit right. As she and her daughter Danni begin to take a deeper look in the cir...

Redline

Redline

2007

as Sally Martin

5.0
Acting

A gorgeous young automobile fanatic--and front to the hottest unsigned band on the West coast--finds herself caught up in illegal drag-racing competit...

A Valentine Carol

A Valentine Carol

2007

as Jackie Marley

4.7
Acting

In this Valentine’s Day riff on Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol, a cynical, superficial radio talk show host is visited by the ghost of her predece...

McBride: Semper Fi

McBride: Semper Fi

2007

as Claire Whitman

6.4
Acting

Mike McBride is a curmudgeon with a heart of gold. He takes cases based on their merit rather than on their monetary value, which often leads to terse...

All You've Got

All You've Got

2006

as Peggy McDonald

6.3
Acting

Three friends' love for volleyball is tested to the limit when their school burns to the ground and they are forced to join a rival school in order to...

Murder in My House

Murder in My House

2006

as Lauren Kessler

6.2
Acting

A retired lawyer and his daughter investigates a murder that had taken place in their new home. However, the two are unaware of the the dangers they a...

Mystery Woman: Wild West Mystery

Mystery Woman: Wild West Mystery

2006

as Annie

6.2
Acting

When former TV star Clint Taylor brings his Wild West show into town, murder becomes the featured attraction for bookstore owner Samantha Kinsey. Sama...

Double Cross

Double Cross

2006

as Suzanne Debson

2.7
Acting

Two women jokingly agree to kill each others' husbands. Then one really does and blackmails the other into killing her own.

The Perfect Neighbor

The Perfect Neighbor

2005

as Donna Germaine

5.3
Acting

A disturbed new neighbor fixates on another woman's husband.

Stranger in My Bed

Stranger in My Bed

2005

as Christine Goudet

5.6
Acting

To escape her abusive spouse, Sarah fakes her own death and flees. Seems like a good plan, right? Sadly, it doesn't take her estranged husband long to...

Back to You & Me

Back to You & Me

2005

as Connie Murray

6.5
Acting

After befriending a patient and then losing her to cancer, Dr. Sydney Ludwick decides to take some much needed time off to attend the 20th anniversary...

Chasing Ghosts

Chasing Ghosts

2005

as Patricia King

5.5
Acting

A serial killer targeting the city's mobsters taunts police with clues and photos left behind at the crime scenes. A veteran cop takes on a rookie par...

The Drone Virus

The Drone Virus

2004

as Dr. Sloan

5.3
Acting

The unthinkable strikes when the advanced MRI scanner within a hospital forces Dr. Colleen O'Brian to choose between her superiors and a desperate fat...

Tiger Cruise

Tiger Cruise

2004

as Kate Dolan

5.9
Acting

On its last leg homeward, from Pearl Harbor, Hawaii to San Diego, the USS Constellation hosts a jolly "tiger cruise" for US Navy, Marines and USNAF re...

A Carol Christmas

A Carol Christmas

2003

as Sexy TV Star

5.6
Acting

Carol Cartman, a tempestuous talk show host, is a high-heeled, high-maintenance Scrooge. This insensitive, self-centered and stingy woman is about to ...

Alone with a Stranger

Alone with a Stranger

2000

as Sandy Kennington

3.3
Acting

Max never had the good things in life. A life of crime was his only legacy. So when he discovers an unknown brother, to whom fortune has granted all t...

I Married a Monster

I Married a Monster

1998

as Linda

3.0
Acting

Kelly's new husband Nick begins behaving oddly, showing a surprising desire to make babies and shun his drinking buddies. Little does she know he's no...

The Rat Pack

The Rat Pack

1998

as Marilyn Monroe

5.9
Acting

After a brief flash-forward to Frank Sinatra as an old man, saying "I miss my guys," the movie's main narrative begins during high points in the solo ...

Serial Killing 101

Serial Killing 101

1998

as Donna Noland

5.2
Acting

Casey Noland, a high school kid with no direction in life, decides to pursue the serial killing profession. Only problem...he can't bring himself to k...

Breast Men

Breast Men

1997

as Cindy

5.3
Acting

We follow the two Texas doctors who invented the modern breast implant and its surgical procedure. However, when success and money come their way, the...

Doublecross on Costa's Island

Doublecross on Costa's Island

1997

as Veronica

4.8
Acting

Six years after stopping a multi-national arms deal that would have wiped out Los Angeles, Agent Enrico Costa (Franco Columbu) is tracked down at his ...

Humanoids from the Deep

Humanoids from the Deep

1996

as Fran Taylor

3.6
Acting

In this remake to the original 1980 ecological horror movie, a secret government experiment turns nightmarish when genetically altered fish, bred as a...

Foxfire

Foxfire

1996

as Goldie's Stepmother

6.0
Acting

The story of five teenage girls who form an unlikely bond after beating up a teacher who has sexually harassed them. They build a solid friendship but...

Depraved

Depraved

1996

as Monica Stienman

3.0
Acting

Steamy erotic thriller centering on Opella and Dan, a couple whose sexual fantasies get so wild, Dan wants to put a stop to them. When Opella is disco...

Lone Tiger

Lone Tiger

1996

as Jane Costello

Acting

Kurenai travels to Las Vegas to search for his father's killer. Broke and with nowhere to stay he seeks refuge in an alley where he hears cries for he...

The Sister-in-Law

The Sister-in-Law

1995

as Ashley Hawkins

4.0
Acting

A man finally meets his daughter-in-law for the first time when his son tragically dies. He and the rest of the family like her, but she has a deadly ...

Under Lock and Key

Under Lock and Key

1995

as Tina Lam

5.4
Acting

A drug lord's prison connections make this a dangerous and deadly assignment for undercover FBI agent Danielle Peters.

Taken Alive

Taken Alive

1994

as Veronica

6.0
Acting

A beautiful secret agent recruits a local sculptor to aid her in rescuing a presidential candidate's kidnapped mistress.

Psycho Cop Returns

Psycho Cop Returns

1993

as Sharon

5.2
Acting

A group of office workers decide to have a party in the office building. Among other things, they want to have some drugs there. Their conversation on...

Illegal Entry: Formula for Fear

Illegal Entry: Formula for Fear

1993

as Pamela Raby

5.0
Acting

A masked killer has murdered a young girl's parents and is now stalking her. It seems that her father had developed a secret formula that would end wo...

Hired to Kill

Hired to Kill

1990

as Sheila

4.7
Acting

A fashion photographer and seven models travel to a South American island fortress, ostensibly to do a fashion shoot. In reality, the photographer is ...

Fatal Encounter

Fatal Encounter

1990

as Laura

Acting

A woman finds out that her biological father, a professional race car driver, was murdered twenty years ago and the murderer or murderers are still on...

Promise

Promise

1986

as Joan

6.8
Acting

Bob returns home for his mother’s funeral knowing that he must fulfill a promise made 30 years earlier—to care for his younger brother DJ, who is schi...

It Happened at Christmas

N/A

Acting

Cooked to Death: A Hannah Swensen Mystery

N/A

as Delores Swensen

Acting

Hannah's set to marry Ross, but a dessert contest turns sour when celebrity chef Duquesne is murdered. Juggling nuptials and competition, she must unr...