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Barbara Hershey

ActorBorn February 5, 1948 (77 years)
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).

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Movies & Shows on Plex

  • The Stunt Man
  • Breakfast of Champions
  • Return to Lonesome Dove
  • Albert Schweitzer
  • Diamonds
  • My Sister

Known For

  • Black Swan
  • Falling Down
  • Insidious
  • Hannah and Her Sisters
  • Insidious: Chapter 2
  • Hoosiers
  • The Entity
  • Beaches
  • The Last Temptation of Christ
  • Boxcar Bertha
  • The Right Stuff
  • Strange Darling
  • The Natural
  • 11:14
  • The Manor
  • Lantana
  • The Portrait of a Lady
  • Swing Kids
  • The Stunt Man
  • Tin Men
  • Last of the Dogmen
  • Outer Space
  • A World Apart
  • The Public Eye

Featured Videos

    Filmography

    2023
    Strange Darling · as Genevieve
    2023
    Beacon 23 (TV Series) · as Sophie
    2022
    9 Bullets · as Lacey
    2021
    The Manor · as Judith
    2020
    Paradise Lost (2020) (TV Series) · as Byrd Forsythe
    2018
    Insidious: The Last Key · as Lorraine Lambert
    2016
    The 9th Life of Louis Drax · as Violet Drax
    2016
    Damien (TV Series) · as Ann Rutledge
    2014
    My Sister · as Connie
    2014
    2013
    Once Upon a Time in Wonderland (TV Series) · as Cora Mills
    2013
    2013
    Insidious: Chapter 2 · as Lorraine Lambert
    2012
    Left to Die · as Sandra Chase
    2012
    2011
    Once Upon a Time (2011) (TV Series) · as Cora / Queen Of Hearts
    2011
    Answers to Nothing · as Marilyn
    2010
    Black Swan · as Erica Sayers / The Queen
    2010
    Insidious · as Lorraine Lambert
    2009
    Albert Schweitzer · as Helene Schweitzer
    2008
    Childless · as Natalie
    2008
    Anne of Green Gables: A New Beginning · as Older Anne Shirley
    2008
    Uncross the Stars · as Hilda
    2007
    The Bird Can't Fly · as Melody
    2007
    Love Comes Lately · as Rosalie
    2004
    Riding the Bullet · as Jean Parker
    2004
    The Mountain (TV Series) · as Gennie Carver
    2004
    Paradise · as Elizabeth Paradise
    2003
    Experiments in Terror · as (segment "outer Space")
    2003
    11:14 · as Norma
    2003
    2003
    Hunger Point · as Marsha Hunter
    2002
    Daniel Deronda (TV Series)
    2001
    Lantana · as Valerie Somers
    2000
    1999
    1999
    Passion · as Rose Grainger
    1999
    1999
    Outer Space · as (archive Footage) (uncredited)
    1998
    A Soldier's Daughter Never Cries · as Marcella Willis
    1998
    Frogs for Snakes · as Eva Santana
    1998
    The Staircase · as Mother Madalyn
    1996
    The Portrait of a Lady · as Madame Serena Merle
    1996
    The Pallbearer · as Ruth Abernathy
    1995
    Last of the Dogmen · as Prof. Lillian Diane Sloan
    1994
    Chicago Hope (TV Series) · as Francesca Alberghetti
    1993
    Abraham · as Sara
    1993
    Abraham (TV Series) · as Sarah
    1993
    A Dangerous Woman · as Frances
    1993
    Return to Lonesome Dove (TV Series) · as Clara Allen
    1993
    The X-Files (TV Series) · as Erika Price
    1993
    Splitting Heirs · as Duchess Lucinda
    1993
    Swing Kids · as Frau Müller
    1993
    Falling Down · as Beth
    1992
    The Public Eye · as Kay Levitz
    1992
    Stay the Night · as Jimmie Sue Finger
    1991
    Defenseless · as Thelma 't.k.' Knudsen Katwuller
    1991
    Paris Trout · as Hanna Trout
    1990
    Tune in Tomorrow... · as Aunt Julia
    1990
    A Killing in a Small Town · as Candy Morrison
    1989
    Agatha Christie's Poirot (TV Series) · as Caroline Hubbard
    1988
    Beaches · as Hillary Whitney Essex
    1988
    A World Apart · as Diana Roth
    1988
    The Last Temptation of Christ · as Mary Magdalene
    1987
    Shy People · as Ruth
    1987
    1987
    Tin Men · as Nora Tilley
    1986
    Hoosiers · as Myra Fleener
    1986
    1986
    Passion Flower · as Julia Gaitland
    1985
    Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1985) (TV Series) · as Jessie Dean
    1985
    1984
    The Natural · as Harriet Bird
    1983
    The Right Stuff · as Glennis Yeager
    1982
    The Entity · as Carla Moran
    1982
    Faerie Tale Theatre (TV Series) · as The Maid
    1981
    Americana · as Jess's Daughter
    1981
    Take This Job and Shove It · as Jane Margaret ("j.m.") Halstead
    1980
    American Playhouse (TV Series) · as Call Girl
    1980
    The Stunt Man · as Nina Franklin
    1980
    A Man Called Intrepid · as Madeleine
    1980
    1980
    From Here to Eternity (TV Series) · as Karen Holmes
    1979
    A Man Called Intrepid · as Madelaine
    1979
    A Man Called Intrepid (TV Series) · as Madelaine
    1977
    Sunshine Christmas · as Cody Blanks
    1977
    Just a Little Inconvenience · as Nikki Klausing
    1977
    In the Glitter Palace · as Ellen Lange
    1976
    Flood · as Mary Cutler
    1976
    The Last Hard Men · as Susan Burgade
    1976
    A Dirty Knight's Work · as Marion Evans
    1975
    Diamonds · as Sally
    1974
    You and Me · as Waitress
    1974
    The Crazy World of Julius Vrooder · as Zanni (as Barbara Seagull)
    1973
    Love Story (TV Series) · as Farrell Edwards
    1973
    Angela · as Angela
    1972
    Boxcar Bertha · as Boxcar Bertha
    1972
    1972
    Kung Fu (TV Series) · as Nan Chi
    1971
    The Pursuit of Happiness · as Jane Kauffman
    1970
    The Baby Maker · as Tish Gray
    1970
    The Liberation of L.B. Jones · as Nella Mundine
    1969
    Last Summer · as Sandy
    1969
    Heaven with a Gun · as Leloopa
    1968
    With Six You Get Eggroll · as Stacy Iverson
    1967
    The High Chaparral (TV Series) · as Moonfire
    1967
    CBS Playhouse (TV Series) · as Claire Gray
    1967
    The Invaders (TV Series) · as Beth Ferguson
    1966
    The Monroes (TV Series) · as Kathy Monroe
    1965
    Gidget (TV Series)
    1965
    Run for Your Life (TV Series) · as Saro-Jane
    1964
    Daniel Boone (TV Series) · as Dinah Hubbard
    1963
    1963
    The Farmer's Daughter (TV Series) · as Lucy
    1960
    Insight (TV Series) · as Judy

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