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: The Last Key (2018)
as Lorraine Lambert
Insidious (2011)
as Lorraine Lambert
Insidious: Chapter 2 (2013)
as Lorraine Lambert
Falling Down (1993)
as Beth
Strange Darling (2024)
as Genevieve
The Right Stuff (1983)
as Glennis Yeager
The Entity (1982)
as Carla Moran
The Last Temptation of Christ (1988)
as Mary Magdalene
The Natural (1984)
as Harriet Bird
Hannah and Her Sisters (1986)
as Lee
The 9th Life of Louis Drax (2016)
as Violet Drax
Hoosiers (1986)
as Myra Fleener
11:14 (2004)
as Norma
Mickey's 60th Birthday (1988)
as Self
The Portrait of a Lady (1996)
as Madame Serena Merle
Beaches (1988)
as Hillary Whitney Essex
Swing Kids (1993)
as Frau Müller
9 Bullets (2022)
as Lacey
The Public Eye (1992)
as Kay Levitz
Riding the Bullet (2004)
as Jean Parker
The Manor (2021)
as Judith
Heaven with a Gun (1969)
as Leloopa
Tin Men (1987)
as Nora Tilley
Splitting Heirs (1993)
as Duchess Lucinda
Boxcar Bertha (1972)
as Boxcar Bertha
The Stranger Beside Me (2003)
as Ann Rule
Sister (2014)
as Connie
Anne of Green Gables: A New Beginning (2008)
as Older Anne Shirley
The Last Hard Men (1976)
as Susan Burgade
Last of the Dogmen (1995)
as Prof. Lillian Diane Sloan
Legacy of Screams: The Evolution of Horror Movies (2025)
as Self (archive footage)
As Far Back As I Can Remember... The Story of Goodfellas (2026)
as Self (archive footage)
Breakfast of Champions (1999)
as Celia Hoover
The Pallbearer (1996)
as Ruth Abernathy
With Six You Get Eggroll (1968)
as Stacy Iverson
The Happy Days of Garry Marshall (2020)
as Self
Last Summer (1969)
as Sandy
A Killing in a Small Town (1990)
as Candy Morrison
Abraham (1993)
as Sara
The Stunt Man (1980)
as Nina Franklin
Albert Schweitzer - Anatomie eines Heiligen (2010)
as Helene Schweitzer
Shy People (1987)
as Ruth
Defenseless (1991)
as Thelma 'T.K.' Knudsen Katwuller
The Liberation of L.B. Jones (1970)
as Nella Mundine
A Dangerous Woman (1993)
as Frances
Tune in Tomorrow... (1990)
as Aunt Julia
Woodstockers (2026)
as Rebecca
The Pursuit of Happiness (1971)
as Jane Kauffman
Dealing: Or the Berkeley-to-Boston Forty-Brick Lost-Bag Blues (1972)
as Susan
Sunshine Christmas (1977)
as Cody Blanks
Martin Scorsese Directs (1990)
as Self
Realizing The Right Stuff (2003)
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
My Wicked, Wicked Ways: The Legend of Errol Flynn (1985)
as Lili Damita
Frogs for Snakes (1998)
as Eva Santana
Once Upon a Time: And They Lived Happily Ever After (2018)
as Self
Passion Flower (1987)
as Julia Gaitland
Flood! (1977)
as Mary Cutler
Nick Nolte: No Exit (2008)
as Self
Uncross the Stars (2008)
as Hilda
Krung Thep (2026)
as The Woman
Just a Little Inconvenience (1977)
as Nikki Klausing
Portrait: Jane Campion and The Portrait of a Lady (1997)
as Self
Lantana (2001)
as Valerie Somers
Stay the Night (1992)
as Jimmie Sue Finger
Paradise (2004)
as Elizabeth Paradise
Angel on My Shoulder (1980)
as Julie
The Crazy World of Julius Vrooder (1974)
as Zanni (as Barbara Seagull)
The Nightingale (1983)
as The Maid
Paris Trout (1991)
as Hanna Trout
Albert Schweitzer (2009)
as Helene Schweitzer
A World Apart (1988)
as Diana Roth
The Natural: The Best There Ever Was (2016)
as Self
Drowning on Dry Land (1999)
as Kate
Damien: Behind the Scenes (2016)
as Self
Trial by Combat (1976)
as Marion Evans
In the Glitter Palace (1977)
as Ellen Lange
The Sinister Saga of Making The Stunt Man (2000)
Actor
Angela – Love Comes Quietly (1973)
as Angela
Hunger Point (2003)
as Marsha Hunter
Left to Die (2012)
as Sandra Chase
The Nature of Lantana (2002)
as Self
Outer Space (1999)
as (archive footage) (uncredited)
Working (1982)
as Call Girl
Answers to Nothing (2011)
as Marilyn
Twilight Theater II (1982)
as Self- Guest
The Bird Can't Fly (2008)
as Melody
The Baby Maker (1970)
as Tish Gray
The Staircase (1998)
as Mother Madalyn
Passion (1999)
as Rose Grainger
Love Comes Lately (2007)
as Rosalie
Childless (2015)
as Natalie
The Last Seder (—)
Actor
Americana (1981)
as Jess's Daughter
You and Me (1975)
as Waitress
Experiments in Terror (2003)
Actor
Diamonds (1975)
as Sally
The Entity Files (2005)
as Self