Barbara Hershey
Acting • Born 1948-02-05
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.
Filmography
124 credits
Heaven with a Gun
Movie • 1969
Leloopa
Abraham
Movie • 1993
Sara
Swing Kids
Movie • 1993
Frau Müller
Tin Men
Movie • 1987
Nora Tilley
Splitting Heirs
Movie • 1993
Duchess Lucinda
The Last Temptation of Christ
Movie • 1988
Mary Magdalene
Hannah and Her Sisters
Movie • 1986
Lee
Boxcar Bertha
Movie • 1972
Boxcar Bertha
Hoosiers
Movie • 1986
Myra Fleener
Last of the Dogmen
Movie • 1995
Prof. Lillian Diane Sloan
The Natural
Movie • 1984
Harriet Bird
The Pallbearer
Movie • 1996
Ruth Abernathy
The Entity
Movie • 1982
Carla Moran
The Public Eye
Movie • 1992
Kay Levitz
Lantana
Movie • 2001
Valerie Somers
11:14
Movie • 2004
Norma
The Right Stuff
Movie • 1983
Glennis Yeager
Breakfast of Champions
Movie • 1999
Celia Hoover
Riding the Bullet
Movie • 2004
Jean Parker
The Stunt Man
Movie • 1980
Nina Franklin
Defenseless
Movie • 1991
Thelma 'T.K.' Knudsen Katwuller
Tune in Tomorrow...
Movie • 1990
Aunt Julia
Take This Job and Shove It
Movie • 1981
Jane Margaret ("J.M.") Halstead
A World Apart
Movie • 1988
Diana Roth
The Portrait of a Lady
Movie • 1996
Madame Serena Merle
Uncross the Stars
Movie • 2008
Hilda
Falling Down
Movie • 1993
Beth
Beaches
Movie • 1988
Hillary Whitney Essex
Anne of Green Gables: A New Beginning
Movie • 2008
Older Anne Shirley
Last Summer
Movie • 1969
Sandy
Black Swan
Movie • 2010
Erica Sayers / The Queen
The Last Hard Men
Movie • 1976
Susan Burgade
Albert Schweitzer
Movie • 2009
Helene Schweitzer
With Six You Get Eggroll
Movie • 1968
Stacy Iverson
Insidious
Movie • 2011
Lorraine Lambert
Shy People
Movie • 1987
Ruth
Paris Trout
Movie • 1991
Hanna Trout
The Bird Can't Fly
Movie • 2008
Melody
A Soldier's Daughter Never Cries
Movie • 1998
Marcella Willis
Insidious: Chapter 2
Movie • 2013
Lorraine Lambert
Answers to Nothing
Movie • 2011
Marilyn
Frogs for Snakes
Movie • 1998
Eva Santana
Trial by Combat
Movie • 1976
Marion Evans
A Killing in a Small Town
Movie • 1990
Candy Morrison
The Pursuit of Happiness
Movie • 1971
Jane Kauffman
Love Comes Lately
Movie • 2007
Rosalie
A Dangerous Woman
Movie • 1993
Frances
Diamonds
Movie • 1975
Sally
The Staircase
Movie • 1998
Mother Madalyn
The Baby Maker
Movie • 1970
Tish Gray
Left to Die
Movie • 2012
Sandra Chase
Flood!
Movie • 1977
Mary Cutler
Americana
Movie • 1981
Jess's Daughter
Hunger Point
Movie • 2003
Marsha Hunter
Passion Flower
Movie • 1987
Julia Gaitland
Sister
Movie • 2014
Connie
Just a Little Inconvenience
Movie • 1977
Nikki Klausing
Passion
Movie • 1999
Rose Grainger
The Crazy World of Julius Vrooder
Movie • 1974
Zanni (as Barbara Seagull)
Dealing: Or the Berkeley-to-Boston Forty-Brick Lost-Bag Blues
Movie • 1972
Susan
Strange Darling
Movie • 2024
Genevieve
The Stranger Beside Me
Movie • 2003
Ann Rule
Childless
Movie • 2015
Natalie
The Liberation of L.B. Jones
Movie • 1970
Nella Mundine
My Wicked, Wicked Ways: The Legend of Errol Flynn
Movie • 1985
Lili Damita
Drowning on Dry Land
Movie • 1999
Kate
Angel on My Shoulder
Movie • 1980
Julie
The 9th Life of Louis Drax
Movie • 2016
Violet Drax
Mickey's 60th Birthday
Movie • 1988
Self
The Nightingale
Movie • 1983
The Maid
Albert Schweitzer - Anatomie eines Heiligen
Movie • 2010
Helene Schweitzer
You and Me
Movie • 1975
Waitress
Sunshine Christmas
Movie • 1977
Cody Blanks
In the Glitter Palace
Movie • 1977
Ellen Lange
Portrait: Jane Campion and The Portrait of a Lady
Movie • 1997
Self
Insidious: The Last Key
Movie • 2018
Lorraine Lambert
Martin Scorsese Directs
Movie • 1990
Self
Angela - Love Comes Quietly
Movie • 1973
Angela
Working
Movie • 1982
Call Girl
Stay the Night
Movie • 1992
Jimmie Sue Finger
Paradise
Movie • 2004
Elizabeth Paradise
The Nature of Lantana
Movie • 2002
Self
The Happy Days of Garry Marshall
Movie • 2020
Self
Outer Space
Movie • 1999
(archive footage) (uncredited)
The Manor
Movie • 2021
Judith
9 Bullets
Movie • 2022
Lacey
The Sinister Saga of Making The Stunt Man
Movie • 2000
The Entity Files
Movie • 2005
Self
Eugene the Marine
Movie • 2025
Frances
The Natural: The Best There Ever Was
Movie • 2016
Self
Damien: Behind the Scenes
Movie • 2016
Self
Experiments in Terror
Movie • 2003
Legacy of Screams: The Evolution of Horror Movies
Movie • 2025
Self - (archive footage)
Realizing The Right Stuff
Movie • 2003
Self
Woodstockers
Movie • 2026
Rebecca
Kung Fu
TV • 1972
Nan Chi
Gidget
TV • 1965
The New Alfred Hitchcock Presents
TV • 1985
Jessie Dean
Faerie Tale Theatre
TV • 1982
The Maid
Return to Lonesome Dove
TV • 1993
Clara Allen
From Here to Eternity
TV • 1980
Karen Holmes
The Monroes
TV • 1966
Kathy Monroe
Run for Your Life
TV • 1965
Saro-Jane
Daniel Boone
TV • 1964
Dinah Hubbard
The High Chaparral
TV • 1967
Moonfire
The Mountain
TV • 2004
Gennie Carver
Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre
TV • 1963
V Graham Norton
TV • 2002
Self
The Oscars
TV • 1953
Self
Daniel Deronda
TV • 2002
Once Upon a Time
TV • 2011
Cora / Queen of Hearts
Damien
TV • 2016
Ann Rutledge
Anne of Green Gables
TV • 1985
Older Anne Shirley
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
TV • 1962
Self
Beacon 23
TV • 2023
Sophie
Once Upon a Time in Wonderland
TV • 2013
Cora Mills
The Invaders
TV • 1967
Beth Ferguson
Paradise Lost
TV • 2020
Byrd Forsythe
The Dick Cavett Show
TV • 1968
Self - Guest
The X-Files
TV • 1993
Erika Price
Abraham
TV • 1994
Sarah
Chicago Hope
TV • 1994
Francesca Alberghetti
A Man Called Intrepid
TV • 1979
Madelaine
Agatha Christie's Poirot
TV • 1989
Caroline Hubbard