Barbara Dolores Assoon (c. 1929 – 14 April 2020) was a Trinidad and Tobago actress, journalist, and broadcaster.
[1] In the following year, Assoon received a scholarship to study acting in England, choosing the Bristol Old Vic school, and appearing as Tituba in the first performance of Arthur Miller's The Crucible there on 9 November 1954.
[2][3] Assoon spent the next 19 years in Britain and appeared in many radio, television and stage productions.
[2] In 1957, Assoon made her Trinidadian radio debut in The Edwards Family, a soap opera.
[5] She reprised her role in The Crucible for British television, in a production also featuring Sean Connery.