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Barbara Hershey

Actor

Barbara Hershey

Born February 5, 1948 in Hollywood, California, USA83 films

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".

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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).

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Essential films

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Insidious poster7.0Insidious2011Falling Down poster7.4Falling Down1993Insidious: Chapter 2 poster6.7Insidious: Chapter 22013Hannah and Her Sisters poster7.5Hannah and Her Sisters1986The Last Temptation of Christ poster7.2The Last Temptation of Christ1988The Right Stuff poster7.4The Right Stuff1983Insidious: The Last Key poster6.3Insidious: The Last Key2018Strange Darling poster6.9Strange Darling2024

Filmography

83 films as actor
  1. TBAThe Last Seder
  2. 2026Krung ThepThe Woman
  3. 2026WoodstockersRebecca
  4. 2024Strange DarlingGenevieve
  5. 20229 BulletsLacey
  6. 2021The ManorJudith
  7. 2018Insidious: The Last KeyLorraine Lambert
  8. 2016The 9th Life of Louis DraxViolet Drax
  9. 2015ChildlessNatalie
  10. 2014SisterConnie
  11. 2013Insidious: Chapter 2Lorraine Lambert
  12. 2012Left to DieSandra Chase
  13. 2011Answers to NothingMarilyn
  14. 2011InsidiousLorraine Lambert
  15. 2010Black SwanErica Sayers / The Queen
  16. 2009Albert SchweitzerHelene Schweitzer
  17. 2008Anne of Green Gables: A New BeginningOlder Anne Shirley
  18. 2008The Bird Can't FlyMelody
  19. 2008Uncross the StarsHilda
  20. 2007Love Comes LatelyRosalie
  21. 2004Riding the BulletJean Parker
  22. 200411:14Norma
  23. 2004ParadiseElizabeth Paradise
  24. 2003Experiments in Terror
  25. 2003The Stranger Beside MeAnn Rule
  26. 2003Hunger PointMarsha Hunter
  27. 2001LantanaValerie Somers
  28. 1999Drowning on Dry LandKate
  29. 1999PassionRose Grainger
  30. 1999Breakfast of ChampionsCelia Hoover
  31. 1998A Soldier's Daughter Never CriesMarcella Willis
  32. 1998Frogs for SnakesEva Santana
  33. 1998The StaircaseMother Madalyn
  34. 1996The Portrait of a LadyMadame Serena Merle
  35. 1996The PallbearerRuth Abernathy
  36. 1995Last of the DogmenProf. Lillian Diane Sloan
  37. 1993AbrahamSara
  38. 1993A Dangerous WomanFrances
  39. 1993Splitting HeirsDuchess Lucinda
  40. 1993Swing KidsFrau Müller
  41. 1993Falling DownBeth
  42. 1992The Public EyeKay Levitz
  43. 1992Stay the NightJimmie Sue Finger
  44. 1991DefenselessThelma 'T.K.' Knudsen Katwuller
  45. 1991Paris TroutHanna Trout
  46. 1990Tune in Tomorrow...Aunt Julia
  47. 1990A Killing in a Small TownCandy Morrison
  48. 1988BeachesHillary Whitney Essex
  49. 1988A World ApartDiana Roth
  50. 1988The Last Temptation of ChristMary Magdalene
  51. 1987Shy PeopleRuth
  52. 1987Tin MenNora Tilley
  53. 1987Passion FlowerJulia Gaitland
  54. 1986HoosiersMyra Fleener
  55. 1986Hannah and Her SistersLee
  56. 1985My Wicked, Wicked Ways: The Legend of Errol FlynnLili Damita
  57. 1984The NaturalHarriet Bird
  58. 1983The Right StuffGlennis Yeager
  59. 1983The NightingaleThe Maid
  60. 1982The EntityCarla Moran
  61. 1982WorkingCall Girl
  62. 1981AmericanaJess's Daughter
  63. 1981Take This Job and Shove ItJane Margaret ("J.M.") Halstead
  64. 1980The Stunt ManNina Franklin
  65. 1980Angel on My ShoulderJulie
  66. 1977Sunshine ChristmasCody Blanks
  67. 1977Just a Little InconvenienceNikki Klausing
  68. 1977Flood!Mary Cutler
  69. 1977In the Glitter PalaceEllen Lange
  70. 1976The Last Hard MenSusan Burgade
  71. 1976Trial by CombatMarion Evans
  72. 1975DiamondsSally
  73. 1975You and MeWaitress
  74. 1974The Crazy World of Julius VrooderZanni (as Barbara Seagull)
  75. 1973Angela – Love Comes QuietlyAngela
  76. 1972Boxcar BerthaBoxcar Bertha
  77. 1972Dealing: Or the Berkeley-to-Boston Forty-Brick Lost-Bag BluesSusan
  78. 1971The Pursuit of HappinessJane Kauffman
  79. 1970The Baby MakerTish Gray
  80. 1970The Liberation of L.B. JonesNella Mundine
  81. 1969Last SummerSandy
  82. 1969Heaven with a GunLeloopa
  83. 1968With Six You Get EggrollStacy Iverson