Barbara Hershey
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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
Credits
Insidious (2011)
as Lorraine Lambert
Insidious: The Last Key (2018)
as Lorraine Lambert
Insidious: Chapter 2 (2013)
as Lorraine Lambert
Black Swan (2010)
as Erica Sayers / The Queen
Strange Darling (2024)
as Genevieve
Falling Down (1993)
as Beth
The Last Temptation of Christ (1988)
as Mary Magdalene
The Natural (1984)
as Harriet Bird
The Right Stuff (1983)
as Glennis Yeager
The Entity (1982)
as Carla Moran
Hannah and Her Sisters (1986)
as Lee
The Portrait of a Lady (1996)
as Madame Serena Merle
The 9th Life of Louis Drax (2016)
as Violet Drax
11:14 (2004)
as Norma
Hoosiers (1986)
as Myra Fleener
Riding the Bullet (2004)
as Jean Parker
Beaches (1988)
as Hillary Whitney Essex
9 Bullets (2022)
as Lacey
Swing Kids (1993)
as Frau Müller
The Stunt Man (1980)
as Nina Franklin
Boxcar Bertha (1972)
as Boxcar Bertha
Tin Men (1987)
as Nora Tilley
Breakfast of Champions (1999)
as Celia Hoover
Abraham (1993)
as Sara
Sister (2014)
as Connie
Last of the Dogmen (1995)
as Prof. Lillian Diane Sloan
Legacy of Screams: The Evolution of Horror Movies (2025)
as Self - (archive footage)
Last Summer (1969)
as Sandy
The Manor (2021)
as Judith
The Public Eye (1992)
as Kay Levitz
Splitting Heirs (1993)
as Duchess Lucinda
The Pallbearer (1996)
as Ruth Abernathy
Shy People (1987)
as Ruth
With Six You Get Eggroll (1968)
as Stacy Iverson
Portrait: Jane Campion and The Portrait of a Lady (1997)
as Self
The Last Hard Men (1976)
as Susan Burgade
Heaven with a Gun (1969)
as Leloopa
Paradise (2004)
as Elizabeth Paradise
A Dangerous Woman (1993)
as Frances
Woodstockers (2026)
as Rebecca
Passion Flower (1987)
as Julia Gaitland
Flood! (1977)
as Mary Cutler
Lantana (2001)
as Valerie Somers
The Happy Days of Garry Marshall (2020)
as Self
The Liberation of L.B. Jones (1970)
as Nella Mundine
The Stranger Beside Me (2003)
as Ann Rule
Krung Thep (2026)
as The Woman
Tune in Tomorrow... (1990)
as Aunt Julia
Once Upon a Time: And They Lived Happily Ever After (2018)
as Self
A World Apart (1988)
as Diana Roth
Stay the Night (1992)
as Jimmie Sue Finger
Sunshine Christmas (1977)
as Cody Blanks
Defenseless (1991)
as Thelma 'T.K.' Knudsen Katwuller
Mickey's 60th Birthday (1988)
as Self
Anne of Green Gables: A New Beginning (2008)
as Older Anne Shirley
A Killing in a Small Town (1990)
as Candy Morrison
The Pursuit of Happiness (1971)
as Jane Kauffman
Paris Trout (1991)
as Hanna Trout
My Wicked, Wicked Ways: The Legend of Errol Flynn (1985)
as Lili Damita
The Nightingale (1983)
as The Maid
Twilight Theater II (1982)
as Self- Guest
Martin Scorsese Directs (1990)
as Self
Take This Job and Shove It (1981)
as Jane Margaret ("J.M.") Halstead
A Soldier's Daughter Never Cries (1998)
as Marcella Willis
Trial by Combat (1976)
as Marion Evans
Hunger Point (2003)
as Marsha Hunter
Love Comes Lately (2007)
as Rosalie
Frogs for Snakes (1998)
as Eva Santana
Uncross the Stars (2008)
as Hilda
In the Glitter Palace (1977)
as Ellen Lange
Albert Schweitzer - Anatomie eines Heiligen (2010)
as Helene Schweitzer
You and Me (1975)
as Waitress
The Baby Maker (1970)
as Tish Gray
The Last Seder (—)
Actor
Angel on My Shoulder (1980)
as Julie
Working (1982)
as Call Girl
Outer Space (1999)
as (archive footage) (uncredited)
Left to Die (2012)
as Sandra Chase
Realizing The Right Stuff (2003)
as Self
Experiments in Terror (2003)
Actor
Passion (1999)
as Rose Grainger
Dealing: Or the Berkeley-to-Boston Forty-Brick Lost-Bag Blues (1972)
as Susan
Drowning on Dry Land (1999)
as Kate
Just a Little Inconvenience (1977)
as Nikki Klausing
The Crazy World of Julius Vrooder (1974)
as Zanni (as Barbara Seagull)
The Natural: The Best There Ever Was (2016)
as Self
The Sinister Saga of Making The Stunt Man (2000)
Actor
Albert Schweitzer (2009)
as Helene Schweitzer
The Staircase (1998)
as Mother Madalyn
Americana (1981)
as Jess's Daughter
Answers to Nothing (2011)
as Marilyn
Damien: Behind the Scenes (2016)
as Self
Diamonds (1975)
as Sally
Nick Nolte: No Exit (2008)
as Self
The Nature of Lantana (2002)
as Self
Childless (2015)
as Natalie
The Bird Can't Fly (2008)
as Melody
Angela – Love Comes Quietly (1973)
as Angela
The Entity Files (2005)
as Self