Barbara Hershey
Born February 05, 1948 (Age: 78)
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Hollywood, California, USA
Biography
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.
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).
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Filmography
Woodstockers
2026
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as Rebecca
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Age: 78
Strange Darling
2024
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as Genevieve
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Age: 76
9 Bullets
2022
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as Lacey
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Age: 74
Insidious: The Last Key
2018
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as Lorraine Lambert
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Age: 69
Damien: Behind the Scenes
2016
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as Self
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Age: 68
Insidious: Chapter 2
2013
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as Lorraine Lambert
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Age: 65
Insidious
2011
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as Lorraine Lambert
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Age: 63
Black Swan
2010
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as Erica Sayers / The Queen
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Age: 62
The Entity Files
2005
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as Self
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Age: 57
Riding the Bullet
2004
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as Jean Parker
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Age: 56
Paradise
2004
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as Elizabeth Paradise
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Age: 55
The Stranger Beside Me
2003
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as Ann Rule
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Age: 55
The Nature of Lantana
2002
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as Self
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Age: 54
Lantana
2001
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as Valerie Somers
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Age: 53
The Sinister Saga of Making The Stunt Man
2000
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as
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Age: 52
A Soldier's Daughter Never Cries
1998
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as Marcella Willis
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Age: 50
Frogs for Snakes
1998
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as Eva Santana
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Age: 50
The Staircase
1998
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as Mother Madalyn
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Age: 50
Portrait: Jane Campion and The Portrait of a Lady
1997
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as Self
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Age: 48
The Portrait of a Lady
1996
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as Madame Serena Merle
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Age: 48
The Pallbearer
1996
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as Ruth Abernathy
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Age: 48
Abraham
1993
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as Sara
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Age: 45
A Dangerous Woman
1993
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as Frances
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Age: 45
Splitting Heirs
1993
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as Duchess Lucinda
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Age: 45
Swing Kids
1993
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as Frau Müller
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Age: 45
Falling Down
1993
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as Beth
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Age: 45
The Public Eye
1992
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as Kay Levitz
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Age: 44
Stay the Night
1992
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as Jimmie Sue Finger
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Age: 44
Defenseless
1991
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as Thelma 'T.K.' Knudsen Katwuller
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Age: 43
Paris Trout
1991
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as Hanna Trout
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Age: 43
Tune in Tomorrow...
1990
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as Aunt Julia
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Age: 42
Martin Scorsese Directs
1990
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as Self
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Age: 42
A Killing in a Small Town
1990
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as Candy Morrison
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Age: 42
Beaches
1988
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as Hillary Whitney Essex
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Age: 40
Mickey's 60th Birthday
1988
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as Self
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Age: 40
A World Apart
1988
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as Diana Roth
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Age: 40
The Last Temptation of Christ
1988
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as Mary Magdalene
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Age: 40
Shy People
1987
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as Ruth
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Age: 39
Tin Men
1987
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as Nora Tilley
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Age: 39
Passion Flower
1987
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as Julia Gaitland
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Age: 39
Hoosiers
1986
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as Myra Fleener
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Age: 38
Hannah and Her Sisters
1986
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as Lee
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Age: 38
My Wicked, Wicked Ways: The Legend of Errol Flynn
1985
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as Lili Damita
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Age: 36
The Natural
1984
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as Harriet Bird
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Age: 36
The Right Stuff
1983
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as Glennis Yeager
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Age: 35
The Entity
1982
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as Carla Moran
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Age: 34
Americana
1981
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as Jess's Daughter
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Age: 33
Take This Job and Shove It
1981
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as Jane Margaret ("J.M.") Halstead
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Age: 33
The Stunt Man
1980
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as Nina Franklin
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Age: 32
Angel on My Shoulder
1980
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as Julie
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Age: 32
Sunshine Christmas
1977
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as Cody Blanks
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Age: 29
In the Glitter Palace
1977
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as Ellen Lange
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Age: 29
The Crazy World of Julius Vrooder
1974
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as Zanni (as Barbara Seagull)
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Age: 26
Angela - Love Comes Quietly
1973
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as Angela
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Age: 25
Dealing: Or the Berkeley-to-Boston Forty-Brick Lost-Bag Blues
1972
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as Susan
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Age: 24
Last Summer
1969
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as Sandy
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Age: 21
Heaven with a Gun
1969
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as Leloopa
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Age: 21