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: Chapter 2 (2013)
as Lorraine Lambert
Falling Down (1993)
as Beth
Black Swan (2010)
as Erica Sayers / The Queen
Insidious: The Last Key (2018)
as Lorraine Lambert
Strange Darling (2024)
as Genevieve
The Stranger Beside Me (2003)
as Ann Rule
11:14 (2004)
as Norma
The Entity (1982)
as Carla Moran
The Last Temptation of Christ (1988)
as Mary Magdalene
Hannah and Her Sisters (1986)
as Lee
The Right Stuff (1983)
as Glennis Yeager
The Natural (1984)
as Harriet Bird
Beaches (1988)
as Hillary Whitney Essex
The Portrait of a Lady (1996)
as Madame Serena Merle
Passion Flower (1987)
as Julia Gaitland
Hoosiers (1986)
as Myra Fleener
Boxcar Bertha (1972)
as Boxcar Bertha
Sister (2014)
as Connie
Swing Kids (1993)
as Frau Müller
Shy People (1987)
as Ruth
Tin Men (1987)
as Nora Tilley
Breakfast of Champions (1999)
as Celia Hoover
Last Summer (1969)
as Sandy
Woodstockers (2026)
as Rebecca
The Last Hard Men (1976)
as Susan Burgade
A Dangerous Woman (1993)
as Frances
Outer Space (1999)
as (archive footage) (uncredited)
Martin Scorsese Directs (1990)
as Self
9 Bullets (2022)
as Lacey
Mickey's 60th Birthday (1988)
as Self
The Public Eye (1992)
as Kay Levitz
The Pallbearer (1996)
as Ruth Abernathy
Sunshine Christmas (1977)
as Cody Blanks
Abraham (1993)
as Sara
Riding the Bullet (2004)
as Jean Parker
Splitting Heirs (1993)
as Duchess Lucinda
Krung Thep (2026)
as The Woman
Frogs for Snakes (1998)
as Eva Santana
Tune in Tomorrow... (1990)
as Aunt Julia
Heaven with a Gun (1969)
as Leloopa
Once Upon a Time: And They Lived Happily Ever After (2018)
as Self
The Manor (2021)
as Judith
With Six You Get Eggroll (1968)
as Stacy Iverson
Legacy of Screams: The Evolution of Horror Movies (2025)
as Self - (archive footage)
Anne of Green Gables: A New Beginning (2008)
as Older Anne Shirley
The 9th Life of Louis Drax (2016)
as Violet Drax
The Pursuit of Happiness (1971)
as Jane Kauffman
The Nightingale (1983)
as The Maid
A Killing in a Small Town (1990)
as Candy Morrison
Lantana (2001)
as Valerie Somers
Albert Schweitzer - Anatomie eines Heiligen (2010)
as Helene Schweitzer
A Soldier's Daughter Never Cries (1998)
as Marcella Willis
Paradise (2004)
as Elizabeth Paradise
Flood! (1977)
as Mary Cutler
Left to Die (2012)
as Sandra Chase
Albert Schweitzer (2009)
as Helene Schweitzer
Angela – Love Comes Quietly (1973)
as Angela
Take This Job and Shove It (1981)
as Jane Margaret ("J.M.") Halstead
The Liberation of L.B. Jones (1970)
as Nella Mundine
In the Glitter Palace (1977)
as Ellen Lange
The Stunt Man (1980)
as Nina Franklin
Paris Trout (1991)
as Hanna Trout
Trial by Combat (1976)
as Marion Evans
Uncross the Stars (2008)
as Hilda
The Staircase (1998)
as Mother Madalyn
Experiments in Terror (2003)
Actor
Dealing: Or the Berkeley-to-Boston Forty-Brick Lost-Bag Blues (1972)
as Susan
Love Comes Lately (2007)
as Rosalie
Angel on My Shoulder (1980)
as Julie
Answers to Nothing (2011)
as Marilyn
The Bird Can't Fly (2008)
as Melody
The Crazy World of Julius Vrooder (1974)
as Zanni (as Barbara Seagull)
The Baby Maker (1970)
as Tish Gray
The Happy Days of Garry Marshall (2020)
as Self
Twilight Theater II (1982)
as Self- Guest
Drowning on Dry Land (1999)
as Kate
Last of the Dogmen (1995)
as Prof. Lillian Diane Sloan
The Natural: The Best There Ever Was (2016)
as Self
Realizing The Right Stuff (2003)
as Self
Defenseless (1991)
as Thelma 'T.K.' Knudsen Katwuller
The Nature of Lantana (2002)
as Self
My Wicked, Wicked Ways: The Legend of Errol Flynn (1985)
as Lili Damita
Diamonds (1975)
as Sally
Stay the Night (1992)
as Jimmie Sue Finger
A World Apart (1988)
as Diana Roth
Passion (1999)
as Rose Grainger
Hunger Point (2003)
as Marsha Hunter
You and Me (1975)
as Waitress
Just a Little Inconvenience (1977)
as Nikki Klausing
Portrait: Jane Campion and The Portrait of a Lady (1997)
as Self
The Entity Files (2005)
as Self
Americana (1981)
as Jess's Daughter
Working (1982)
as Call Girl
Childless (2015)
as Natalie
Damien: Behind the Scenes (2016)
as Self
The Sinister Saga of Making The Stunt Man (2000)
Actor