Barbara Hershey
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.
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Movies (42)
Eugene the Marine
as Frances
2025
Strange Darling
as Genevieve
2024
9 Bullets
as Lacey
2022
The Manor
as Judith
2021
The Happy Days of Garry Marshall
as Self
2020
Insidious: The Last Key
as Lorraine Lambert
2018
The 9th Life of Louis Drax
as Violet Drax
2016
The Natural: The Best There Ever Was
as Self
2016
Damien: Behind the Scenes
as Self
2016
Childless
as Natalie
2015
Sister
as Connie
2014
Insidious: Chapter 2
as Lorraine Lambert
2013
Left to Die
as Sandra Chase
2012
Answers to Nothing
as Marilyn
2011
Insidious
as Lorraine Lambert
2011
Black Swan
as Erica Sayers / The Queen
2010
Albert Schweitzer - Anatomie eines Heiligen
as Helene Schweitzer
2010
Albert Schweitzer
as Helene Schweitzer
2009
Anne of Green Gables: A New Beginning
as Older Anne Shirley
2008
The Bird Can't Fly
as Melody
2008
Uncross the Stars
as Hilda
2008
Love Comes Lately
as Rosalie
2007
The Entity Files
as Self
2005
Riding the Bullet
as Jean Parker
2004
Paradise
as Elizabeth Paradise
2004
Experiments in Terror
2003
11:14
as Norma
2003
The Stranger Beside Me
as Ann Rule
2003
Hunger Point
as Marsha Hunter
2003
The Nature of Lantana
as Self
2002
Lantana
as Valerie Somers
2001
The Sinister Saga of Making The Stunt Man
2000
Drowning on Dry Land
as Kate
1999
Passion
as Rose Grainger
1999
Breakfast of Champions
as Celia Hoover
1999
Outer Space
as (archive footage) (uncredited)
1999
A Soldier's Daughter Never Cries
as Marcella Willis
1998
Frogs for Snakes
as Eva Santana
1998
The Staircase
as Mother Madalyn
1998
Portrait: Jane Campion and The Portrait of a Lady
as Self
1997
The Portrait of a Lady
as Madame Serena Merle
1996
The Pallbearer
as Ruth Abernathy
1996
