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Barbara Hershey

Barbara Hershey

Acting February 5, 1948 (78 years old) Hollywood, California, USA

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). 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.

Movies 100

Black Swan 7.7

Black Swan

as Erica Sayers / The Queen

2010
Insidious 7.0

Insidious

as Lorraine Lambert

2011
Insidious: Chapter 2 6.7

Insidious: Chapter 2

as Lorraine Lambert

2013
Insidious: The Last Key 6.3

Insidious: The Last Key

as Lorraine Lambert

2018
Falling Down 7.4

Falling Down

as Beth

1993
Strange Darling 6.9

Strange Darling

as Genevieve

2024
The Right Stuff 7.4

The Right Stuff

as Glennis Yeager

1983
The Last Temptation of Christ 7.2

The Last Temptation of Christ

as Mary Magdalene

1988
The Entity 6.9

The Entity

as Carla Moran

1982
Hannah and Her Sisters 7.5

Hannah and Her Sisters

as Lee

1986
The Natural 6.9

The Natural

as Harriet Bird

1984
Hoosiers 7.0

Hoosiers

as Myra Fleener

1986
11:14 6.8

11:14

as Norma

2004
Beaches 6.7

Beaches

as Hillary Whitney Essex

1988
The Last Hard Men 6.1

The Last Hard Men

as Susan Burgade

1976
Swing Kids 6.7

Swing Kids

as Frau Müller

1993
The Portrait of a Lady 5.9

The Portrait of a Lady

as Madame Serena Merle

1996
The 9th Life of Louis Drax 6.4

The 9th Life of Louis Drax

as Violet Drax

2016
9 Bullets 5.3

9 Bullets

as Lacey

2022
Tin Men 6.3

Tin Men

as Nora Tilley

1987
The Manor 5.5

The Manor

as Judith

2021
Last of the Dogmen 6.8

Last of the Dogmen

as Prof. Lillian Diane Sloan

1995
Legacy of Screams: The Evolution of Horror Movies

Legacy of Screams: The Evolution of Horror Movies

as Self (archive footage)

2025
The Stunt Man 6.6

The Stunt Man

as Nina Franklin

1980
Heaven with a Gun 5.5

Heaven with a Gun

as Leloopa

1969
With Six You Get Eggroll 6.4

With Six You Get Eggroll

as Stacy Iverson

1968
Boxcar Bertha 5.8

Boxcar Bertha

as Boxcar Bertha

1972
Anne of Green Gables: A New Beginning 6.0

Anne of Green Gables: A New Beginning

as Older Anne Shirley

2008
Abraham 7.2

Abraham

as Sara

1993
Riding the Bullet 5.1

Riding the Bullet

as Jean Parker

2004
Shy People 6.4

Shy People

as Ruth

1987
Flood! 5.2

Flood!

as Mary Cutler

1977
The Pallbearer 5.0

The Pallbearer

as Ruth Abernathy

1996
Last Summer 6.2

Last Summer

as Sandy

1969
Splitting Heirs 5.2

Splitting Heirs

as Duchess Lucinda

1993
A Killing in a Small Town 4.8

A Killing in a Small Town

as Candy Morrison

1990
Lantana 6.7

Lantana

as Valerie Somers

2001
The Public Eye 6.2

The Public Eye

as Kay Levitz

1992
Portrait: Jane Campion and The Portrait of a Lady 7.5

Portrait: Jane Campion and The Portrait of a Lady

as Self

1997
A Dangerous Woman 5.5

A Dangerous Woman

as Frances

1993
The Stranger Beside Me 6.1

The Stranger Beside Me

as Ann Rule

2003
Defenseless 4.9

Defenseless

as Thelma 'T.K.' Knudsen Katwuller

1991
Breakfast of Champions 5.0

Breakfast of Champions

as Celia Hoover

1999
As Far Back As I Can Remember... The Story of Goodfellas

As Far Back As I Can Remember... The Story of Goodfellas

as Self (archive footage)

2026
A World Apart 6.4

A World Apart

as Diana Roth

1988
Trial by Combat 7.8

Trial by Combat

as Marion Evans

1976
Sister 5.3

Sister

as Connie

2014
The Nature of Lantana 8.0

The Nature of Lantana

as Self

2002
Paradise 4.1

Paradise

as Elizabeth Paradise

2004
Take This Job and Shove It 5.4

Take This Job and Shove It

as Jane Margaret ("J.M.") Halstead

1981
Once Upon a Time: And They Lived Happily Ever After

Once Upon a Time: And They Lived Happily Ever After

as Self

2018
Realizing The Right Stuff 9.0

Realizing The Right Stuff

as Self

2003
The Liberation of L.B. Jones 6.1

The Liberation of L.B. Jones

as Nella Mundine

1970
The Happy Days of Garry Marshall 8.0

The Happy Days of Garry Marshall

as Self

2020
Mickey's 60th Birthday 6.8

Mickey's 60th Birthday

as Self

1988
Dealing: Or the Berkeley-to-Boston Forty-Brick Lost-Bag Blues 5.3

Dealing: Or the Berkeley-to-Boston Forty-Brick Lost-Bag Blues

as Susan

1972
Tune in Tomorrow... 5.5

Tune in Tomorrow...

as Aunt Julia

1990
Passion Flower 4.2

Passion Flower

as Julia Gaitland

1987
The Pursuit of Happiness 6.2

The Pursuit of Happiness

as Jane Kauffman

1971
A Soldier's Daughter Never Cries 6.1

A Soldier's Daughter Never Cries

as Marcella Willis

1998
The Baby Maker 6.2

The Baby Maker

as Tish Gray

1970
Damien: Behind the Scenes

Damien: Behind the Scenes

as Self

2016
Hunger Point 4.3

Hunger Point

as Marsha Hunter

2003
Twilight Theater II

Twilight Theater II

as Self- Guest

1982
Diamonds 5.3

Diamonds

as Sally

1975
Love Comes Lately 5.2

Love Comes Lately

as Rosalie

2007
Angel on My Shoulder 6.6

Angel on My Shoulder

as Julie

1980
The Natural: The Best There Ever Was 6.0

The Natural: The Best There Ever Was

as Self

2016
Left to Die 4.8

Left to Die

as Sandra Chase

2012
The Crazy World of Julius Vrooder 5.6

The Crazy World of Julius Vrooder

as Zanni (as Barbara Seagull)

1974
Passion 4.5

Passion

as Rose Grainger

1999
Albert Schweitzer 6.0

Albert Schweitzer

as Helene Schweitzer

2009
Martin Scorsese Directs 9.0

Martin Scorsese Directs

as Self

1990
Stay the Night 4.2

Stay the Night

as Jimmie Sue Finger

1992
My Wicked, Wicked Ways: The Legend of Errol Flynn 4.2

My Wicked, Wicked Ways: The Legend of Errol Flynn

as Lili Damita

1985
Uncross the Stars 5.0

Uncross the Stars

as Hilda

2008
Frogs for Snakes 3.4

Frogs for Snakes

as Eva Santana

1998
The Nightingale 5.2

The Nightingale

as The Maid

1983
In the Glitter Palace 4.0

In the Glitter Palace

as Ellen Lange

1977
The Sinister Saga of Making The Stunt Man 7.8

The Sinister Saga of Making The Stunt Man

2000
Americana 5.2

Americana

as Jess's Daughter

1981
Paris Trout 5.5

Paris Trout

as Hanna Trout

1991
Sunshine Christmas 8.0

Sunshine Christmas

as Cody Blanks

1977
The Bird Can't Fly 7.0

The Bird Can't Fly

as Melody

2008
Nick Nolte: No Exit 7.5

Nick Nolte: No Exit

as Self

2008
Answers to Nothing 3.8

Answers to Nothing

as Marilyn

2011
Working 4.8

Working

as Call Girl

1982
Woodstockers

Woodstockers

as Rebecca

2026
You and Me 7.2

You and Me

as Waitress

1975
Just a Little Inconvenience

Just a Little Inconvenience

as Nikki Klausing

1977
Albert Schweitzer - Anatomie eines Heiligen

Albert Schweitzer - Anatomie eines Heiligen

as Helene Schweitzer

2010
The Staircase 7.7

The Staircase

as Mother Madalyn

1998
Angela – Love Comes Quietly 5.4

Angela – Love Comes Quietly

as Angela

1973
Childless 4.5

Childless

as Natalie

2015
Drowning on Dry Land 4.7

Drowning on Dry Land

as Kate

1999
The Entity Files 7.0

The Entity Files

as Self

2005
The Last Seder

The Last Seder

Krung Thep 10.0

Krung Thep

as The Woman

2026
Experiments in Terror 5.0

Experiments in Terror

2003
Outer Space 6.5

Outer Space

as (archive footage) (uncredited)

1999

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