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