 She is noted for playing a female president in the film "Project Moonbase" (1953).Descended from an acting family, Barrier made her first stage appearance at the age of roughly six months when she was carried onstage by her mother Ernestine ("Nesta") De Becker (sister of Marie De Becker), also an actress.Barrier acted into her eighties appearing on such television shows as "Charlie's Angels", "CHiPs", and "The Waltons" and the television film "A Family Upside Down" (1978) with Helen Hayes and Fred Astaire.