Barbara Niven

Q: Has Barbara Niven won any awards?

Barbara Niven has received several nominations and awards throughout her career, including the 2001 Best Actress Award at the Method Fest Film Festival.

Q: What was Barbara Niven's first film?

Barbara Niven's film debut was in the 1990 film 'The Devil's Daughter,' which marked the beginning of her acting career.

Q: What are some of Barbara Niven's successful films?

Some of Barbara Niven's successful films include 'The Holiday Swap,' 'A Christmas to Remember,' and 'All Yours,' all of which gained popularity on Hallmark Channel.

Q: What is Barbara Niven's personal life like?

Barbara Niven is married to Ron A. Smith, and they have one daughter named Heather. She is active in various charitable activities.

Q: What is Barbara Niven's estimated net worth?

Barbara Niven's estimated net worth is approximately $3 million, primarily from her acting and producing career.

Q: What milestones has Barbara Niven achieved in her filmography?

Barbara Niven has achieved significant milestones, including her extensive work in Hallmark films and her role in the series 'The Bold and the Beautiful.'

Q: How did Barbara Niven start her acting career?

Barbara Niven began her acting career in the late 1980s, initially performing in theater before transitioning to television and film roles.

Known for

Chesapeake Shores (2016)

IMDb 7.6 / 10

2016 / Drama, Family

A divorced mom deals with an old romance and complicated family issues when she returns to her hometown with her twin daughters.

Name

Barbara Niven

Height

5 ft 5 in (1.65 m)

Born

16 June 1962, Portland, Oregon, USA

Spouses

Ron A. Smith (2003–present)

Children

1 child, named Heather

Parents

Pat Niven, Barbara Niven

Estimated Net Worth

$3 million

Year	Title	Character	Rating
2026	Movie Best Served Cold: A Hannah Swensen Mystery When a suspect in a forgery case is murdered and the prosecutor goes missing, Hannah and Chad must uncover how...	Delores Swensen	TMDB 8.0 / 10
2026	Movie Sugar & Vice: A Hannah Swensen Mystery Hannah finds a body at the grand re-opening of the Lake Eden Inn. When a storm traps everyone inside, Hannah...	Delores Swensen	TMDB 6.0 / 10
2025	Movie The Christmas Baby When a baby boy shows up on their doorstep days before Christmas with a note written specially for them, Erin...	Betty Mitchell	TMDB 6.8 / 10
2025	Movie Pie To Die For: A Hannah Swensen Mystery When Hannah's customer and Delores' theater rival is murdered, Hannah must find her killer in order to save her mother's...	Delores Swensen	TMDB 7.4 / 10
2025	Movie Reality Bites: A Hannah Swensen Mystery Hannah's favorite reality show takes over The Cookie Jar. When the producer is found dead, Hannah and Norman team up...	Delores Swensen	TMDB 7.8 / 10
2024	Movie Leah's Perfect Gift Leah Meyer, a Jewish woman who has always dreamed of experiencing a traditional Christmas, faces unexpected challenges when she spends...	Barbara	TMDB 6.1 / 10
2024	Movie A Sprinkle of Deceit: A Hannah Swensen Mystery Hannah and Chad flirt with their own paths to solve the same murder while working to clear a colleague who...	Delores Swensen	TMDB 7.2 / 10
2024	Movie One Bad Apple: A Hannah Swensen Mystery Hannah Swensen has been asked to teach a baking class at the college in town, but her equipment is tampered...	Delores Swensen	TMDB 6.8 / 10
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2023	Movie A Zest For Death: A Hannah Swensen Mystery They say the real estate business is deadly, but no one is more surprised than Hannah Swensen when her mother,...	Delores Swensen	TMDB 7.3 / 10
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2022	Movie North to Home Suzanne McBride is excited to spend her birthday with her family. It will be the first time that her three...	Suzanne	TMDB 6.9 / 10
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2021	Movie Sweet Revenge: A Hannah Swensen Mystery As Hannah and Mike experience engaged life while balancing their busy careers, a murder at a 24-hour gym complicates their...	Delores Swensen	TMDB 6.9 / 10
2021	Movie Crossword Mysteries: Riddle Me Dead Tess gets invited to be a part of a popular game show, but when the host is unexpectedly murdered, she...	Candace	TMDB 7.5 / 10
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2020	Movie Christmas in Evergreen: Bells Are Ringing As Michelle’s wedding approaches, Hannah steps up to help finish the launch of the new Evergreen museum while questioning her...	Carol Shaw	TMDB 5.7 / 10
2020	Movie USS Christmas Maddie, a reporter for a Norfolk newspaper, embarks on a Tiger Cruise during Christmastime where she meets a handsome naval...	Elizabeth	TMDB 6.8 / 10
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2019	Movie Christmas In Evergreen: Tidings of Joy A skeptical writer shows up in Evergreen to get the scoop on the town's famed passion for Christmas during a...	Carol Shaw	TMDB 6.8 / 10
2019	Movie Crossword Mysteries: Proposing Murder When an old friend of New York Sentinel Crosswords editor Tess Harper is found murdered on the very day her...	Aunt Candace	TMDB 7.5 / 10
2019	Movie Love Takes Flight A workaholic hospital director is forced to re-examine her rigid lifestyle when a free-wheeling EMS pilot enters her life.	Virginia Beauman	TMDB 7.4 / 10
2019	Movie Crossword Mysteries: A Puzzle to Die For A crossword puzzle editor finds her life completely disrupted when several of the clues in her recent puzzles are linked...	Aunt Candace	TMDB 7.1 / 10
2019	Movie Love on the Menu When chef Hank makes a deal with frozen food executive Maggie to save his restaurant, their unexpected attraction complicates matters,...	Andrea	TMDB 6.8 / 10
2018	Movie Christmas in Evergreen: Letters to Santa Lisa's trip home to Evergreen for the holidays finds her shepherding an effort to save the town's beloved general store,...	Carol Shaw	TMDB 6.8 / 10
2017	Movie Christmas in Evergreen Allie, a veterinarian in Evergreen, reluctantly will spend Christmas with her long-distance boyfriend. Bound for the airport, she has engine...	Carol	TMDB 6.4 / 10
2017	Movie Habeas Corpus: The Making of 'Psycho Cop Returns' Retrospective documentary on the making of the low-budget horror slasher film Psycho Cop Returns (1993).	Self	TMDB 2.2 / 10
2017	Movie Murder, She Baked: Just Desserts Hannah Swensen is thrilled when she is chosen as a guest for the first Eden Lake Dessert Bake-Off, but when...	Delores Swensen	TMDB 7.0 / 10
2017	Movie Campfire Kiss Feeling disconnected with her teenage son, a protective mother decides to step outside of her comfort zone and take him...	Beverly	TMDB 6.5 / 10
2016	TV Chesapeake Shores A divorced mom deals with an old romance and complicated family issues when she returns to her hometown with her...	Megan O'Brien	TMDB 7.8 / 10
2016	Movie Murder, She Baked: A Deadly Recipe Bakery owner Hannah Swensen just can't keep her hands out of the batter when murder stirs things up in Lake...	Delores Swensen	TMDB 6.9 / 10
2016	Movie Murder, She Baked: A Peach Cobbler Mystery With The Cookie Jar, Hannah Swensen has a mouthwatering monopoly on the bakery business of Lake Eden, Minnesota. But when...	Delores Swensen	TMDB 7.2 / 10
2015	Movie Hamlet's Ghost A modern Shakespearean actor must travel back in time to confront enigmatic forces from the past and future.	Sarah Goodman	Not rated
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2015	Movie Murder, She Baked: A Plum Pudding Mystery A young bakeshop owner’s holiday season takes a surprising turn when she finds a body at a local Christmas tree...	Delores Swensen	TMDB 7.0 / 10
2015	Movie Murder, She Baked: A Chocolate Chip Cookie Mystery Based on the New York Times bestselling book, Chocolate Chip Cookie Murder by Joanne Fluke, the film will take viewers...	Delores Swensen	TMDB 7.1 / 10
2014	Movie Suburban Gothic An awkward, unemployed man who can talk to the dead teams up with a rebellious bartender to find the vengeful...	Eve	TMDB 5.5 / 10
2014	Movie Being Us When a woman with multiple personality disorder finds herself uncontrollably chasing danger, she's ready to end it all. Can a...	Julie	TMDB 5.0 / 10
2013	Movie Meth Head Gay Kyle Peoples never wanted to be the man he has become in his 30s, an accountant stuck in a...	Madelaine	TMDB 4.3 / 10
2012	Movie Home Invasion After a woman kills a home invasion robber in self-defense, his vengeful girlfriend befriends her at a crime victim support...	Tricia Patterson	TMDB 6.2 / 10
2012	Movie A Perfect Ending This intimate drama follows Rebecca, a woman who has kept her sexuality a secret from her friends but chooses to...	Rebecca Westridge	TMDB 6.2 / 10
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2009	Movie Accused at 17 A teenager is accused of murdering a classmate and claims that she was framed by her best friend. Her mother...	Claire Werner	TMDB 6.3 / 10
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2008	Movie Short Track Carolinian Blake Beckett (Pepper Sweeney), the son of a stock car racing legend, is a 4-time short track racing champion....	Audrey Beckett	TMDB 4.7 / 10
2008	Movie Dead at 17 When Alyssa's 17-year-old son Jason commits suicide, something doesn't sit right. As she and her daughter Danni begin to take...	Alyssa Harris	TMDB 3.8 / 10
2008	TV Eli Stone Many lawyers consider themselves prophets, but Eli Stone may be the real deal. Eli has built a successful career at...	Ellen Wethersby	TMDB 6.7 / 10
2007	Movie Redline A gorgeous young automobile fanatic--and front to the hottest unsigned band on the West Coast--finds herself caught up in illegal...	Sally Martin	TMDB 5.1 / 10
2007	Movie A Valentine Carol In this Valentine’s Day riff on Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol, a cynical, superficial radio talk show host is visited...	Jackie Marley	TMDB 4.7 / 10
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2006	Movie All You've Got Three friends' love for volleyball is tested to the limit when their school burns to the ground and they are...	Peggy McDonald	TMDB 6.2 / 10
2006	Movie Murder in My House A retired lawyer and his daughter investigates a murder that had taken place in their new home. However, the two...	Lauren Kessler	TMDB 6.3 / 10
2006	Movie Mystery Woman: Wild West Mystery When former TV star Clint Taylor brings his Wild West show into town, murder becomes the featured attraction for bookstore...	Annie	TMDB 6.5 / 10
2006	Movie Double Cross Two women jokingly agree to kill each others' husbands. Then one really does and blackmails the other into killing her...	Suzanne Debson	TMDB 3.6 / 10
2005	Movie The Perfect Neighbor A disturbed new neighbor fixates on another woman's husband.	Donna Germaine	TMDB 5.6 / 10
2005	Movie Stranger in My Bed To escape her abusive spouse, Sarah fakes her own death and flees. Seems like a good plan, right? Sadly, it...	Christine Goudet	TMDB 6.0 / 10
2005	Movie Back to You & Me After befriending a patient and then losing her to cancer, Dr. Sydney Ludwick decides to take some much needed time...	Connie Murray	TMDB 6.6 / 10
2005	TV Hell's Kitchen Aspiring restaurateurs brave Ramsay and his fiery command of the kitchen as he puts the competitors through an intense culinary...	Self - Restaurant Patron	TMDB 6.8 / 10
2005	Movie Chasing Ghosts A serial killer targeting the city's mobsters taunts police with clues and photos left behind at the crime scenes. A...	Patricia King	TMDB 5.6 / 10
2004	Movie The Drone Virus The unthinkable strikes when the advanced MRI scanner within a hospital forces Dr. Colleen O'Brian to choose between her superiors...	Dr. Sloan	TMDB 5.7 / 10
2004	Movie Tiger Cruise On its last leg homeward, from Pearl Harbor, Hawaii to San Diego, the USS Constellation hosts a jolly "tiger cruise"...	Kate Dolan	TMDB 6.0 / 10
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2003	TV NCIS From murder and espionage to terrorism and stolen submarines, a team of special agents investigates any crime that has any...	Elaine Burns	TMDB 7.6 / 10
2003	TV Las Vegas Ed Deline is a strict ex-CIA officer who went from being Head of Security to becoming President of Operations of...	Alice Gold	TMDB 7.1 / 10
2000	Movie Alone with a Stranger Max never had the good things in life. A life of crime was his only legacy. So when he discovers...	Sandy Kennington	TMDB 4.0 / 10
1998	Movie I Married a Monster Kelly's new husband Nick begins behaving oddly, showing a surprising desire to make babies and shun his drinking buddies. Little...	Linda	TMDB 4.0 / 10
1998	TV Charmed Three sisters (Prue, Piper and Phoebe) reunite and unlock their powers to become the Charmed Ones, the most powerful good...	Helen Jenkins	TMDB 8.2 / 10
1998	Movie The Rat Pack After a brief flash-forward to Frank Sinatra as an old man, saying "I miss my guys," the movie's main narrative...	Marilyn Monroe	TMDB 5.9 / 10
1998	Movie Serial Killing 101 Casey Noland, a high school kid with no direction in life, decides to pursue the serial killing profession. Only problem...he...	Donna Noland	TMDB 5.2 / 10
1997	Movie Breast Men We follow the two Texas doctors who invented the modern breast implant and its surgical procedure. However, when success and...	Cindy	TMDB 5.2 / 10
1997	TV Pensacola: Wings of Gold Pensacola: Wings of Gold is a syndicated American action/adventure drama series based at the Naval Air Station Pensacola in Pensacola,...	Kate	TMDB 6.6 / 10
1997	Movie Doublecross on Costa's Island Six years after stopping a multi-national arms deal that would have wiped out Los Angeles, Agent Enrico Costa (Franco Columbu)...	Veronica	TMDB 4.6 / 10
1996	Movie Forest Warrior McKenna, the spirit of Tanglewood Forest, can transform into a bear, a wolf or an eagle. When a gang of...	Stacy Franklin	TMDB 4.6 / 10
1996	Movie Humanoids from the Deep A secret government experiment turns nightmarish when genetically altered fish, bred as amphibious weapons, escape. Scientists believe them dead after...	Fran Taylor	TMDB 4.0 / 10
1996	Movie Foxfire The story of five teenage girls who form an unlikely bond after beating up a teacher who has sexually harassed...	Goldie's Stepmother	TMDB 6.0 / 10
1996	Movie Depraved Steamy erotic thriller centering on Opella and Dan, a couple whose sexual fantasies get so wild, Dan wants to put...	Monica Stienman	TMDB 3.9 / 10
1996	Movie Lone Tiger Kurenai travels to Las Vegas to search for his father's killer. Broke and with nowhere to stay he seeks refuge...	Jane Costello	TMDB 8.0 / 10
1995	Movie The Sister-in-Law A man finally meets his daughter-in-law for the first time when his son tragically dies. He and the rest of...	Ashley Hawkins	TMDB 4.8 / 10
1995	Movie Under Lock and Key A drug lord's prison connections make this a dangerous and deadly assignment for undercover FBI agent Danielle Peters.	Tina Lam	TMDB 5.4 / 10
1994	Movie Taken Alive A beautiful secret agent recruits a local sculptor to aid her in rescuing a presidential candidate's kidnapped mistress.	Veronica	TMDB 8.0 / 10
1993	Movie Psycho Cop Returns A group of office workers decide to have a party in the office building. Among other things, they want to...	Sharon	TMDB 5.3 / 10
1993	Movie Illegal Entry: Formula for Fear A masked killer has murdered a young girl's parents and is now stalking her. It seems that her father had...	Pamela Raby	TMDB 5.7 / 10
1990	Movie Hired to Kill A fashion photographer and seven models travel to a South American island fortress, ostensibly to do a fashion shoot. In...	Sheila	TMDB 4.7 / 10
1990	TV Wings Brothers Brian and Joe Hackett attempt to run an airline on the New England island of Nantucket while surrounded by...	Susan	TMDB 6.8 / 10
1990	Movie Fatal Encounter A woman finds out that her biological father, a professional race car driver, was murdered twenty years ago and the...	Laura Hart	TMDB 9.0 / 10
1987	TV My Two Dads Joey and Michael, who fought over the same woman 13 years ago now have, upon her death, been awarded joint...	Veronica Miles	TMDB 6.3 / 10
1986	Movie Promise Bob returns home for his mother’s funeral knowing that he must fulfill a promise made 30 years earlier—to care for...	Joan	TMDB 7.3 / 10
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TBA	Movie It Happened at Christmas	Unknown character	Not rated