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
Black Swan (2010)
as Erica Sayers / The Queen
Insidious (2011)
as Lorraine Lambert
Insidious: Chapter 2 (2013)
as Lorraine Lambert
Insidious: The Last Key (2018)
as Lorraine Lambert
Strange Darling (2024)
as Genevieve
Falling Down (1993)
as Beth
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
9 Bullets (2022)
as Lacey
11:14 (2004)
as Norma
Krung Thep (2026)
as The Woman
The Last Temptation of Christ (1988)
as Mary Magdalene
Swing Kids (1993)
as Frau Müller
Boxcar Bertha (1972)
as Boxcar Bertha
Hoosiers (1986)
as Myra Fleener
Beaches (1988)
as Hillary Whitney Essex
The Last Hard Men (1976)
as Susan Burgade
Sister (2014)
as Connie
Tin Men (1987)
as Nora Tilley
The Portrait of a Lady (1996)
as Madame Serena Merle
The Manor (2021)
as Judith
Riding the Bullet (2004)
as Jean Parker
Lantana (2001)
as Valerie Somers
The Stunt Man (1980)
as Nina Franklin
Shy People (1987)
as Ruth
Last Summer (1969)
as Sandy
The Public Eye (1992)
as Kay Levitz
A World Apart (1988)
as Diana Roth
The Stranger Beside Me (2003)
as Ann Rule
The Pallbearer (1996)
as Ruth Abernathy
Flood! (1977)
as Mary Cutler
Abraham (1993)
as Sara
A Dangerous Woman (1993)
as Frances
Sunshine Christmas (1977)
as Cody Blanks
Martin Scorsese Directs (1990)
as Self
Paris Trout (1991)
as Hanna Trout
The 9th Life of Louis Drax (2016)
as Violet Drax
Woodstockers (2026)
as Rebecca
Breakfast of Champions (1999)
as Celia Hoover
Stay the Night (1992)
as Jimmie Sue Finger
Anne of Green Gables: A New Beginning (2008)
as Older Anne Shirley
Last of the Dogmen (1995)
as Prof. Lillian Diane Sloan
Paradise (2004)
as Elizabeth Paradise
The Liberation of L.B. Jones (1970)
as Nella Mundine
Left to Die (2012)
as Sandra Chase
Splitting Heirs (1993)
as Duchess Lucinda
Hunger Point (2003)
as Marsha Hunter
Dealing: Or the Berkeley-to-Boston Forty-Brick Lost-Bag Blues (1972)
as Susan
Mickey's 60th Birthday (1988)
as Self
The Happy Days of Garry Marshall (2020)
as Self
Heaven with a Gun (1969)
as Leloopa
Legacy of Screams: The Evolution of Horror Movies (2025)
as Self - (archive footage)
Once Upon a Time: And They Lived Happily Ever After (2018)
as Self
The Baby Maker (1970)
as Tish Gray
Tune in Tomorrow... (1990)
as Aunt Julia
Passion Flower (1987)
as Julia Gaitland
Defenseless (1991)
as Thelma 'T.K.' Knudsen Katwuller
The Pursuit of Happiness (1971)
as Jane Kauffman
The Nightingale (1983)
as The Maid
Albert Schweitzer - Anatomie eines Heiligen (2010)
as Helene Schweitzer
Trial by Combat (1976)
as Marion Evans
Take This Job and Shove It (1981)
as Jane Margaret ("J.M.") Halstead
Albert Schweitzer (2009)
as Helene Schweitzer
With Six You Get Eggroll (1968)
as Stacy Iverson
Diamonds (1975)
as Sally
A Soldier's Daughter Never Cries (1998)
as Marcella Willis
Frogs for Snakes (1998)
as Eva Santana
A Killing in a Small Town (1990)
as Candy Morrison
You and Me (1975)
as Waitress
My Wicked, Wicked Ways: The Legend of Errol Flynn (1985)
as Lili Damita
Answers to Nothing (2011)
as Marilyn
The Staircase (1998)
as Mother Madalyn
Twilight Theater II (1982)
as Self- Guest
Working (1982)
as Call Girl
Love Comes Lately (2007)
as Rosalie
The Natural: The Best There Ever Was (2016)
as Self
Angel on My Shoulder (1980)
as Julie
Portrait: Jane Campion and The Portrait of a Lady (1997)
as Self
Drowning on Dry Land (1999)
as Kate
The Bird Can't Fly (2008)
as Melody
Uncross the Stars (2008)
as Hilda
Realizing The Right Stuff (2003)
as Self
The Sinister Saga of Making The Stunt Man (2000)
Actor
Just a Little Inconvenience (1977)
as Nikki Klausing
In the Glitter Palace (1977)
as Ellen Lange
Americana (1981)
as Jess's Daughter
The Nature of Lantana (2002)
as Self
Passion (1999)
as Rose Grainger
Childless (2015)
as Natalie
Angela – Love Comes Quietly (1973)
as Angela
Outer Space (1999)
as (archive footage) (uncredited)
The Crazy World of Julius Vrooder (1974)
as Zanni (as Barbara Seagull)
Experiments in Terror (2003)
Actor
Damien: Behind the Scenes (2016)
as Self
The Entity Files (2005)
as Self