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Barbara Hershey
Actor

Barbara Hershey

5 Feb 1948Born
78Age
112Credits
Hollywood, California, USABirthplace

Biography

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).

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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).

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Known for

Filmography

The 80 most recent of 112 credits.

  1. TBAThe Last SederFilm
  2. 2026Krung ThepFilm: The Woman
  3. 2026WoodstockersFilm: Rebecca
  4. 2024Strange DarlingFilm: Genevieve
  5. 2023Beacon 23Series: Sophie (2 episodes)
  6. 20229 BulletsFilm: Lacey
  7. 2021The ManorFilm: Judith
  8. 2020Paradise LostSeries: Byrd Forsythe (10 episodes)
  9. 2018Insidious: The Last KeyFilm: Lorraine Lambert
  10. 2016The 9th Life of Louis DraxFilm: Violet Drax
  11. 2016DamienSeries: Ann Rutledge (10 episodes)
  12. 2015ChildlessFilm: Natalie
  13. 2014SisterFilm: Connie
  14. 2013Once Upon a Time in WonderlandSeries: Cora Mills (1 episode)
  15. 2013Insidious: Chapter 2Film: Lorraine Lambert
  16. 2012Left to DieFilm: Sandra Chase
  17. 2011Once Upon a TimeSeries: Cora / Queen of Hearts (14 episodes)
  18. 2011Answers to NothingFilm: Marilyn
  19. 2011InsidiousFilm: Lorraine Lambert
  20. 2010Black SwanFilm: Erica Sayers / The Queen
  21. 2010Albert Schweitzer - Anatomie eines HeiligenFilm: Helene Schweitzer
  22. 2009Albert SchweitzerFilm: Helene Schweitzer
  23. 2008Anne of Green Gables: A New BeginningFilm: Older Anne Shirley
  24. 2008The Bird Can't FlyFilm: Melody
  25. 2008Uncross the StarsFilm: Hilda
  26. 2007Love Comes LatelyFilm: Rosalie
  27. 2004Riding the BulletFilm: Jean Parker
  28. 2004The MountainSeries: Gennie Carver (13 episodes)
  29. 200411:14Film: Norma
  30. 2004ParadiseFilm: Elizabeth Paradise
  31. 2003Experiments in TerrorFilm
  32. 2003The Stranger Beside MeFilm: Ann Rule
  33. 2003Hunger PointFilm: Marsha Hunter
  34. 2002Daniel DerondaSeries: Contessa Maria Alcharisi (1 episode)
  35. 2001LantanaFilm: Valerie Somers
  36. 2000The Sinister Saga of Making The Stunt ManFilm
  37. 1999Drowning on Dry LandFilm: Kate
  38. 1999Outer SpaceFilm: (archive footage) (uncredited)
  39. 1999PassionFilm: Rose Grainger
  40. 1999Breakfast of ChampionsFilm: Celia Hoover
  41. 1998A Soldier's Daughter Never CriesFilm: Marcella Willis
  42. 1998Frogs for SnakesFilm: Eva Santana
  43. 1998The StaircaseFilm: Mother Madalyn
  44. 1996The Portrait of a LadyFilm: Madame Serena Merle
  45. 1996The PallbearerFilm: Ruth Abernathy
  46. 1995Last of the DogmenFilm: Prof. Lillian Diane Sloan
  47. 1994Chicago HopeSeries: Francesca Alberghetti (22 episodes)
  48. 1993AbrahamFilm: Sara
  49. 1993AbrahamSeries: Sarah (2 episodes)
  50. 1993Return to Lonesome DoveSeries: Clara Allen (4 episodes)
  51. 1993A Dangerous WomanFilm: Frances
  52. 1993The X-FilesSeries: Erika Price (3 episodes)
  53. 1993Splitting HeirsFilm: Duchess Lucinda
  54. 1993Swing KidsFilm: Frau Müller
  55. 1993Falling DownFilm: Beth
  56. 1992The Public EyeFilm: Kay Levitz
  57. 1992Stay the NightFilm: Jimmie Sue Finger
  58. 1991DefenselessFilm: Thelma 'T.K.' Knudsen Katwuller
  59. 1991Paris TroutFilm: Hanna Trout
  60. 1990Tune in Tomorrow...Film: Aunt Julia
  61. 1990A Killing in a Small TownFilm: Candy Morrison
  62. 1989Agatha Christie's PoirotSeries: Caroline Hubbard (1 episode)
  63. 1988BeachesFilm: Hillary Whitney Essex
  64. 1988A World ApartFilm: Diana Roth
  65. 1988The Last Temptation of ChristFilm: Mary Magdalene
  66. 1987Shy PeopleFilm: Ruth
  67. 1987Tin MenFilm: Nora Tilley
  68. 1987Passion FlowerFilm: Julia Gaitland
  69. 1986HoosiersFilm: Myra Fleener
  70. 1986Hannah and Her SistersFilm: Lee
  71. 1985Anne of Green GablesSeries: Older Anne Shirley
  72. 1985The New Alfred Hitchcock PresentsSeries: Jessie Dean (1 episode)
  73. 1985My Wicked, Wicked Ways: The Legend of Errol FlynnFilm: Lili Damita
  74. 1984The NaturalFilm: Harriet Bird
  75. 1983The Right StuffFilm: Glennis Yeager
  76. 1983The NightingaleFilm: The Maid
  77. 1982The EntityFilm: Carla Moran
  78. 1982Faerie Tale TheatreSeries: The Maid (1 episode)
  79. 1982WorkingFilm: Call Girl
  80. 1982American PlayhouseSeries: Call Girl, Lenore (1 episode)

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