Acting
Barbara Hershey
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Born
5 February 1948 (age 78)
Birthplace
Hollywood, California, USA
Also known as Barbara Lynn Herzstein
Barbara Hershey (born Barbara Lynn Herzstein; February 5, 1948) is an American actress. In a career spanning more than 50 years, she has played a variety of roles on television and in cinema in several genres, including westerns and comedies. She began acting at age 17 in 1965 but did not achieve much critical acclaim until the latter half of the 1980s. By that time, the Chicago Tribune referred to her as "one of America's finest actresses". Hershey won an Emmy and a Golden Globe for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Miniseries/TV Film for her role in A Killing in a Small Town (1990). She received Golden Globe nominations for Best Supporting Actress for her role as Mary Magdalene in The Last Temptation of Christ (1988) and for her role in The Portrait of a Lady (1996). For the latter film, she was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress and won the Los Angeles Film Critics Award for Best Supporting Actress. She has won two Best Actress awards at the Cannes Film Festival for her roles in Shy People (1987) and A World Apart (1988). She was featured in Woody Allen's Hannah and Her Sisters (1986), for which she was nominated for the British Academy Film Award for Best Supporting Actress and Garry Marshall's melodrama Beaches (1988), and she earned a second British Academy Film Award nomination for Darren Aronofsky's Black Swan (2010). Description above from the Wikipedia article Barbara Hershey, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known for
Filmography
Woodstockers
as Rebecca
Krung Thep
as The Woman
As Far Back As I Can Remember... The Story of Goodfellas
as Self (archive footage)
Legacy of Screams: The Evolution of Horror Movies
as Self (archive footage)
Strange Darling
as Genevieve
9 Bullets
as Lacey
The Manor
as Judith
Insidious: The Last Key
as Lorraine Lambert
The 9th Life of Louis Drax
as Violet Drax
Childless
as Natalie
Sister
as Connie
Insidious: Chapter 2
as Lorraine Lambert
Left to Die
as Sandra Chase
Insidious
as Lorraine Lambert
Answers to Nothing
as Marilyn
Black Swan
as Erica Sayers / The Queen
Albert Schweitzer - Anatomie eines Heiligen
as Helene Schweitzer
Albert Schweitzer
as Helene Schweitzer
Uncross the Stars
as Hilda
Anne of Green Gables: A New Beginning
as Older Anne Shirley
The Bird Can't Fly
as Melody
Love Comes Lately
as Rosalie
The Entity Files
as Self
11:14
as Norma
Riding the Bullet
as Jean Parker
Paradise
as Elizabeth Paradise
Hunger Point
as Marsha Hunter
The Stranger Beside Me
as Ann Rule
Lantana
as Valerie Somers
Breakfast of Champions
as Celia Hoover
Passion
as Rose Grainger
Outer Space
as (archive footage) (uncredited)
A Soldier's Daughter Never Cries
as Marcella Willis
Frogs for Snakes
as Eva Santana
The Staircase
as Mother Madalyn
The Pallbearer
as Ruth Abernathy
The Portrait of a Lady
as Madame Serena Merle
Last of the Dogmen
as Prof. Lillian Diane Sloan
Abraham
as Sara
Swing Kids
as Frau Müller
Splitting Heirs
as Duchess Lucinda
Falling Down
as Beth
A Dangerous Woman
as Frances
The Public Eye
as Kay Levitz
Stay the Night
as Jimmie Sue Finger
Defenseless
as Thelma 'T.K.' Knudsen Katwuller
Paris Trout
as Hanna Trout
Tune in Tomorrow...
as Aunt Julia
A Killing in a Small Town
as Candy Morrison
The Last Temptation of Christ
as Mary Magdalene
A World Apart
as Diana Roth
Beaches
as Hillary Whitney Essex
Tin Men
as Nora Tilley
Shy People
as Ruth
Passion Flower
as Julia Gaitland
Hoosiers
as Myra Fleener
The Natural
as Harriet Bird
The Right Stuff
as Glennis Yeager
The Nightingale
as The Maid
The Entity
as Carla Moran
Working
as Call Girl
Twilight Theater II
as Self- Guest
Take This Job and Shove It
as Jane Margaret ("J.M.") Halstead
Americana
as Jess's Daughter
The Stunt Man
as Nina Franklin
Angel on My Shoulder
as Julie
Flood!
as Mary Cutler
Just a Little Inconvenience
as Nikki Klausing
Sunshine Christmas
as Cody Blanks
In the Glitter Palace
as Ellen Lange
The Last Hard Men
as Susan Burgade
Trial by Combat
as Marion Evans
Diamonds
as Sally
You and Me
as Waitress
The Crazy World of Julius Vrooder
as Zanni (as Barbara Seagull)
Boxcar Bertha
as Boxcar Bertha
The Pursuit of Happiness
as Jane Kauffman
The Baby Maker
as Tish Gray
The Liberation of L.B. Jones
as Nella Mundine
Heaven with a Gun
as Leloopa
Last Summer
as Sandy
With Six You Get Eggroll
as Stacy Iverson