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Barbara Hershey

Actress / Television Actress | * 02/05/1948 (76) | Hollywood, California (United States of America (USA))
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Barbara Lynn Herzstein, better known as Barbara Hershey (born 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 widespread critical acclaim until 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... ()
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Most frequent genres for this person: Drama | Comedies | Thriller

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A journey through the psyche of a young ballerina whose starring role as the duplicitous swan queen turns out to be a part for which she becomes frighteningly perfect. ...

Black Swan

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2010 | 3.8/5 | 1h 48min
Drama, Thriller, Horror
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Between two Thanksgivings, Hannah's husband falls in love with her sister Lee, while her hypochondriac ex-husband rekindles his relationship with her sister Holly. ...

Hannah and Her Sisters

13

1986 | 3.8/5 | 1h 47min
Comedy, Drama
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A family discovers that dark spirits have invaded their home after their son inexplicably falls into an endless sleep. When they reach out to a professional for help, they learn things are a lot more ...

Insidious

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2010 | 3.5/5 | 1h 43min
Horror, Thriller
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An ordinary man frustrated with the various flaws he sees in society begins to psychotically and violently lash out against them. ...

Falling Down

16

1993 | 3.7/5 | 1h 53min
Crime, Drama, Thriller
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Awards & Nominations for Barbara Hershey

Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Miniseries or Television Film 2x Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actress Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress
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Movies with Barbara Hershey as Actress(88)

as Lorraine Lambert (archive footage) (uncredited)2023 Insidious: The Red Door
as Frances2023 Eugene the Marine
2023 Strange Darling
as Lacey2022 9 Bullets
as Judith2021 The Manor
as herself2020 The Happy Days of Garry Marshall
as Lorraine Lambert2018 Insidious: The Last Key
as Violet Drax2016 The 9th Life of Louis Drax
as Natalie2015 Childless
as Connie2014 Sister
as Lorraine Lambert2013 Insidious: Chapter 2
as Sandra Chase2012 Left to Die
as Marilyn2011 Answers to Nothing
as Erica Sayers / The Queen2010 Black Swan
as Lorraine Lambert2010 Insidious
as Helene Schweitzer2010 Albert Schweitzer - Anatomie eines Heiligen
as Helene Schweitzer2009 Albert Schweitzer
as Older Anne Shirley2008 Anne of Green Gables: A New Beginning
as Melody2008 The Bird Can't Fly
as Hilda2008 Uncross The Stars
as Rosalie2007 Love Comes Lately
as Jean Parker2004 Riding the Bullet
as Elizabeth Paradise2004 Paradise
as Marsha Hunter2003 Hunger Point
as Norma2003 11:14
as Ann Rule2003 Ann Rule Presents: The Stranger Beside Me
as Valerie Somers2001 Lantana
2000 The Sinister Saga of Making The Stunt Man
as Rose Grainger1999 Passion
as Kate1999 Drowning on Dry Land
as Celia Hoover1999 Breakfast of Champions
as (archive footage) (uncredited)1999 Outer Space
as Mother Madalyn1998 The Staircase
as Marcella Willis1998 A Soldier's Daughter Never Cries
as Eva Santana1998 Frogs for Snakes
as Madame Serena Merle1996 The Portrait of a Lady
as Ruth Abernathy1996 The Pallbearer
as Prof. Lillian Diane Sloan1995 Last of the Dogmen
as Frances1993 A Dangerous Woman
as Beth1993 Falling Down
as Sara1993 Abraham
as Frau Müller1993 Swing Kids
as Duchess Lucinda1993 Splitting Heirs
as Kay Levitz1992 The Public Eye
as Jimmie Sue Finger1992 Stay the Night
as Thelma 'T.K.' Knudsen Katwuller1991 Defenseless
as Hanna Trout1991 Paris Trout
as herself1990 Martin Scorsese Directs
as Aunt Julia1990 Tune in Tomorrow...
as Candy Morrison1990 A Killing in a Small Town
as Mary Magdalene1988 The Last Temptation of Christ
as Hillary Whitney Essex1988 Beaches
as Diana Roth1988 A World Apart
as herself1988 Mickey's 60th Birthday
as Ruth1987 Shy People
as Nora Tilley1987 Tin Men
as Julia Gaitland1987 Passion Flower
as Lee1986 Hannah and Her Sisters
as Myra Fleener1986 Hoosiers
as Lili Damita1985 My Wicked, Wicked Ways: The Legend of Errol Flynn
as Harriet Bird1984 The Natural
as The Maid1983 The Nightingale
as Glennis Yeager1983 The Right Stuff
as Carla Moran1982 The Entity
as Call Girl1982 Working
as Jess's Daughter1981 Americana
as Jane Margaret ("J.M.") Halstead1981 Take This Job and Shove It
as Julie1980 Angel on My Shoulder
as Nina Franklin1980 The Stunt Man
as Madelaine1979 A Man Called Intrepid
as Nikki Klausing1977 Just a Little Inconvenience
as Mary Cutler1977 Flood!
as Ellen Lange1977 In the Glitter Palace
as Cody Blanks1977 Sunshine Christmas
as Marion Evans1976 Trial by Combat
as Susan Burgade1976 The Last Hard Men
as Waitress1975 You and Me
as Sally1975 Diamonds
as Zanni (as Barbara Seagull)1974 The Crazy World of Julius Vrooder
as Angela1973 Love Comes Quietly
as Boxcar Bertha1972 Boxcar Bertha
as Susan1972 Dealing: Or the Berkeley-to-Boston Forty-Brick Lost-Bag Blues
as Jane Kauffman1971 The Pursuit of Happiness
as Nella Mundine1970 The Liberation of L.B. Jones
as Tish Gray1970 The Baby Maker
as Leloopa1969 Heaven with a Gun
as Sandy1969 Last Summer
as Stacy Iverson1968 With Six You Get Eggroll

TV Shows/Series with Barbara Hershey as Actress(23)

as Byrd Forsythe2020 Paradise Lost
as Ann Rutledge2016 Damien
as Cora Mills2013 Once Upon a Time in Wonderland
as Cora / Queen of Hearts2011 Once Upon a Time
as Gennie Carver2004 The Mountain
as herself2002 V Graham Norton
2002 Daniel Deronda
as Francesca Alberghetti1994 Chicago Hope
as Erika Price1993 The X-Files
as Clara Allen1993 Return to Lonesome Dove
as Caroline Hubbard1989 Agatha Christie's Poirot
as Jessie Dean1985 The New Alfred Hitchcock Presents
as The Maid1982 Faerie Tale Theatre
as Karen Holmes1980 From Here to Eternity
1972 Kung Fu
as Self - Guest1968 The Dick Cavett Show
as Beth Ferguson1967 The Invaders
as Moonfire1967 The High Chaparral
as Kathy Monroe1966 The Monroes
1965 Gidget
as Saro-Jane1965 Run for Your Life
as Dinah Hubbard1964 Daniel Boone
1963 Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre

Additional Information

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Full Name: Barbara Hershey
Born: Thursday, 02/05 1948 (February) in Hollywood, California (United States of America (USA)) (current age: 76 years + 81 days)
Zodiac sign: Aquarius (Chinese zodiac sign: Rat)
Languages: English (EN, native language)
Educated at: Hollywood High School
Father: Arnold Nathan Herzstein
Mother: Melrose Moore
Other names for Barbara Hershey (nicknames, foreign languages etc.):
"바바라 허쉬"
"Барбара Херши"
"Barbara Lynn Herzstein"
Barbara Hershey frequently works together with these people:
Leigh Whannell (13x, Crew)
Ted White (12x, Actor)
David Carradine (10x, Actor)
Nicholas Colasanto (9x, Actor)
Roy Jenson (9x, Actor)
Morgan Woodward (8x, Actor)
Chris Carter (8x, Crew)
Adam Horowitz (8x, Crew)
Rosalind Nashashibi (8x, Crew)
Richard Rush (8x, Crew)
Henry Wills (8x, Actor)
Jack Bannon (8x, Actor)
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WatchPlayStream ID: PEOPLE:2803, Added: 03/23/2018, Last updated: 04/07/2024