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Known For
Acting
Birthday
February 5, 1948
Place of Birth
Hollywood, California, USA
Also Known As
- 바바라 허쉬
- Barbara Lynn Herzstein
- باربارا هرشی
Barbara Hershey
1.6 Popularity
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.
Known For
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Self - (archive footage)
Legacy of Screams: The Evolution of Horror Movies
2025
0.0
Frances
Eugene the Marine
2025
6.9
Genevieve
Strange Darling
2024
5.8
Sophie
Beacon 23
2023
5.3
Lacey
9 Bullets
2022
5.5
Judith
The Manor
2021
7.7
Self
The Happy Days of Garry Marshall
2020
6.3
Byrd Forsythe
Paradise Lost
2020
6.3
Lorraine Lambert
Insidious: The Last Key
2018
6.4
Violet Drax
The 9th Life of Louis Drax
2016
Credits
Legacy of Screams: The Evolution of Horror Movies
as Self - (archive footage)
2025
0.0
Eugene the Marine
as Frances
2025
0.0
Strange Darling
as Genevieve
2024
6.9
Beacon 23
as Sophie
2023
5.8
9 Bullets
as Lacey
2022
5.3
The Manor
as Judith
2021
5.5
The Happy Days of Garry Marshall
as Self
2020
7.7
Paradise Lost
as Byrd Forsythe
2020
6.3
Insidious: The Last Key
as Lorraine Lambert
2018
6.3
The 9th Life of Louis Drax
as Violet Drax
2016
6.4
The Natural: The Best There Ever Was
as Self
2016
0.0
Damien: Behind the Scenes
as Self
2016
0.0
Damien
as Ann Rutledge
2016
6.2
Childless
as Natalie
2015
4.5
Sister
as Connie
2014
5.3
Once Upon a Time in Wonderland
as Cora Mills
2013
6.9
Insidious: Chapter 2
as Lorraine Lambert
2013
6.7
Left to Die
as Sandra Chase
2012
4.8
Once Upon a Time
as Cora / Queen of Hearts
2011
7.4
🎬
Answers to Nothing
as Marilyn
2011
3.8
Insidious
as Lorraine Lambert
2011
6.9
Black Swan
as Erica Sayers / The Queen
2010
7.7
Albert Schweitzer - Anatomie eines Heiligen
as Helene Schweitzer
2010
0.0
Albert Schweitzer
as Helene Schweitzer
2009
6.0
Anne of Green Gables: A New Beginning
as Older Anne Shirley
2008
5.7
The Bird Can't Fly
as Melody
2008
7.0
Uncross the Stars
as Hilda
2008
5.4
Love Comes Lately
as Rosalie
2007
5.2
The Entity Files
as Self
2005
0.0
Riding the Bullet
as Jean Parker
2004
5.1
The Mountain
as Gennie Carver
2004
5.8
Paradise
as Elizabeth Paradise
2004
3.3
Experiments in Terror
2003
1.0
11:14
as Norma
2003
6.8
The Stranger Beside Me
as Ann Rule
2003
5.9
Hunger Point
as Marsha Hunter
2003
4.0
Daniel Deronda
2002
7.6
The Nature of Lantana
as Self
2002
8.0
V Graham Norton
as Self
2002
5.0
Lantana
as Valerie Somers
2001
6.7
The Sinister Saga of Making The Stunt Man
2000
7.0
Drowning on Dry Land
as Kate
1999
4.3
Passion
as Rose Grainger
1999
2.8
Breakfast of Champions
as Celia Hoover
1999
5.0
Outer Space
as (archive footage) (uncredited)
1999
6.4
A Soldier's Daughter Never Cries
as Marcella Willis
1998
6.1
Frogs for Snakes
as Eva Santana
1998
2.4
The Staircase
as Mother Madalyn
1998
7.4
Portrait: Jane Campion and The Portrait of a Lady
as Self
1997
7.5
The Portrait of a Lady
as Madame Serena Merle
1996
6.0
The Pallbearer
as Ruth Abernathy
1996
4.9
Last of the Dogmen
as Prof. Lillian Diane Sloan
1995
6.7
Chicago Hope
as Francesca Alberghetti
1994
7.2
Abraham
as Sarah
1994
8.0
Abraham
as Sara
1993
6.9
Return to Lonesome Dove
as Clara Allen
1993
6.9
The X-Files
as Erika Price
1993
8.4
A Dangerous Woman
as Frances
1993
5.5
Splitting Heirs
as Duchess Lucinda
1993
5.2
Swing Kids
as Frau Müller
1993
6.7
Falling Down
as Beth
1993
7.4
The Public Eye
as Kay Levitz
1992
6.2
Stay the Night
as Jimmie Sue Finger
1992
1.0
Defenseless
as Thelma 'T.K.' Knudsen Katwuller
1991
4.9
Paris Trout
as Hanna Trout
1991
5.2
Tune in Tomorrow...
as Aunt Julia
1990
5.2
Martin Scorsese Directs
as Self
1990
9.0
A Killing in a Small Town
as Candy Morrison
1990
4.8
Agatha Christie's Poirot
as Caroline Hubbard
1989
8.2
Beaches
as Hillary Whitney Essex
1988
6.7
Mickey's 60th Birthday
as Self
1988
6.7
A World Apart
as Diana Roth
1988
6.3
The Last Temptation of Christ
as Mary Magdalene
1988
7.2
Shy People
as Ruth
1987
6.3
Tin Men
as Nora Tilley
1987
6.3
Passion Flower
as Julia Gaitland
1987
3.0
Hoosiers
as Myra Fleener
1986
7.0
Hannah and Her Sisters
as Lee
1986
7.5
Anne of Green Gables
as Older Anne Shirley
1985
8.7
The New Alfred Hitchcock Presents
as Jessie Dean
1985
7.2
My Wicked, Wicked Ways: The Legend of Errol Flynn
as Lili Damita
1985
6.5
The Natural
as Harriet Bird
1984
6.9
The Right Stuff
as Glennis Yeager
1983
7.4
The Nightingale
as The Maid
1983
3.7
The Entity
as Carla Moran
1982
6.7
Faerie Tale Theatre
as The Maid
1982
8.1
Working
as Call Girl
1982
3.5
Americana
as Jess's Daughter
1981
5.5
Take This Job and Shove It
as Jane Margaret ("J.M.") Halstead
1981
5.3
The Stunt Man
as Nina Franklin
1980
6.6
Angel on My Shoulder
as Julie
1980
6.0
🎬
From Here to Eternity
as Karen Holmes
1980
2.3
A Man Called Intrepid
as Madelaine
1979
0.0
Sunshine Christmas
as Cody Blanks
1977
0.0
🎬
Just a Little Inconvenience
as Nikki Klausing
1977
0.0
Flood!
as Mary Cutler
1977
4.9
In the Glitter Palace
as Ellen Lange
1977
2.7
The Last Hard Men
as Susan Burgade
1976
6.1
Trial by Combat
as Marion Evans
1976
7.7
Diamonds
as Sally
1975
5.4
You and Me
as Waitress
1975
6.7
The Crazy World of Julius Vrooder
as Zanni (as Barbara Seagull)
1974
5.2
Angela - Love Comes Quietly
as Angela
1973
4.7
Kung Fu
as Nan Chi
1972
7.7
Boxcar Bertha
as Boxcar Bertha
1972
5.8
Dealing: Or the Berkeley-to-Boston Forty-Brick Lost-Bag Blues
as Susan
1972
4.8
The Pursuit of Happiness
as Jane Kauffman
1971
5.8
The Baby Maker
as Tish Gray
1970
5.7
The Liberation of L.B. Jones
as Nella Mundine
1970
5.8
Last Summer
as Sandy
1969
6.2
Heaven with a Gun
as Leloopa
1969
5.4
With Six You Get Eggroll
as Stacy Iverson
1968
6.3
The Dick Cavett Show
as Self - Guest
1968
6.8
The High Chaparral
as Moonfire
1967
6.6
The Invaders
as Beth Ferguson
1967
6.8
The Monroes
as Kathy Monroe
1966
5.7
Gidget
1965
6.6
Run for Your Life
as Saro-Jane
1965
7.2
Daniel Boone
as Dinah Hubbard
1964
7.0
🎬
Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre
1963
5.7
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
as Self
1962
7.5
The Oscars
as Self
1953
7.0