Barbara Hershey
Born: 1948-02-05 in Hollywood, California, USA
Known For: Acting
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
2026
- As Far Back As I Can Remember... The Story of Goodfellas as Self (archive footage)
- Woodstockers as Rebecca
- Krung Thep as The Woman
2025
- Legacy of Screams: The Evolution of Horror Movies as Self (archive footage)
2024
- Strange Darling as Genevieve
2023
- Beacon 23 as Sophie
2022
- 9 Bullets as Lacey
2021
- The Manor as Judith
2020
- Paradise Lost as Byrd Forsythe
- The Happy Days of Garry Marshall as Self
2018
- Insidious: The Last Key as Lorraine Lambert
- Once Upon a Time: And They Lived Happily Ever After as Self
2016
- Damien as Ann Rutledge
- The 9th Life of Louis Drax as Violet Drax
- The Natural: The Best There Ever Was as Self
- Damien: Behind the Scenes as Self
2015
- Childless as Natalie
2014
- Sister as Connie
2013
- Once Upon a Time in Wonderland as Cora Mills
- Insidious: Chapter 2 as Lorraine Lambert
2012
- Left to Die as Sandra Chase
2011
- Once Upon a Time as Cora / Queen of Hearts
- Insidious as Lorraine Lambert
- Answers to Nothing as Marilyn
2010
- Black Swan as Erica Sayers / The Queen
- Albert Schweitzer - Anatomie eines Heiligen as Helene Schweitzer
2009
- Albert Schweitzer as Helene Schweitzer
2008
- Anne of Green Gables: A New Beginning as Older Anne Shirley
- Nick Nolte: No Exit as Self
- Uncross the Stars as Hilda
- The Bird Can't Fly as Melody
2007
- Love Comes Lately as Rosalie
2005
- The Entity Files as Self
2004
- The Mountain as Gennie Carver
- 11:14 as Norma
- Riding the Bullet as Jean Parker
- Paradise as Elizabeth Paradise
2003
- The Stranger Beside Me as Ann Rule
- Realizing The Right Stuff as Self
- Hunger Point as Marsha Hunter
- Experiments in Terror
2002
- V Graham Norton as Self
- Daniel Deronda as Contessa Maria Alcharisi
- The Nature of Lantana as Self
2001
- Lantana as Valerie Somers
1999
- Breakfast of Champions as Celia Hoover
- Drowning on Dry Land as Kate
- Outer Space as (archive footage) (uncredited)
- Passion as Rose Grainger
1998
- A Soldier's Daughter Never Cries as Marcella Willis
- Frogs for Snakes as Eva Santana
- The Staircase as Mother Madalyn
1997
1996
- The Portrait of a Lady as Madame Serena Merle
- The Pallbearer as Ruth Abernathy
1995
- Last of the Dogmen as Prof. Lillian Diane Sloan
1994
- Chicago Hope as Francesca Alberghetti
1993
- The X-Files as Erika Price
- Falling Down as Beth
- Return to Lonesome Dove as Clara Allen
- Abraham as Sarah
- Swing Kids as Frau Müller
- Splitting Heirs as Duchess Lucinda
- Abraham as Sara
- A Dangerous Woman as Frances
1992
- The Public Eye as Kay Levitz
- Stay the Night as Jimmie Sue Finger
1991
- Defenseless as Thelma 'T.K.' Knudsen Katwuller
- Paris Trout as Hanna Trout
1990
- A Killing in a Small Town as Candy Morrison
- Tune in Tomorrow... as Aunt Julia
- Martin Scorsese Directs as Self
1989
- Agatha Christie's Poirot as Caroline Hubbard
1988
- The Last Temptation of Christ as Mary Magdalene
- Mickey's 60th Birthday as Self
- Beaches as Hillary Whitney Essex
- A World Apart as Diana Roth
1987
- Tin Men as Nora Tilley
- Shy People as Ruth
- Passion Flower as Julia Gaitland
1986
- Hannah and Her Sisters as Lee
- Hoosiers as Myra Fleener
1985
- The New Alfred Hitchcock Presents as Jessie Dean
- Anne of Green Gables as Older Anne Shirley
- My Wicked, Wicked Ways: The Legend of Errol Flynn as Lili Damita
1984
- The Natural as Harriet Bird
1983
- The Right Stuff as Glennis Yeager
- The Nightingale as The Maid
1982
- American Playhouse as Call Girl
- Faerie Tale Theatre as The Maid
- The Entity as Carla Moran
- Working as Call Girl
- Twilight Theater II as Self- Guest
1981
- Take This Job and Shove It as Jane Margaret ("J.M.") Halstead
- Americana as Jess's Daughter
1980
- From Here to Eternity as Karen Holmes
- The Stunt Man as Nina Franklin
- Angel on My Shoulder as Julie
1979
- A Man Called Intrepid as Madelaine
1977
- Sunshine Christmas as Cody Blanks
- Flood! as Mary Cutler
- Just a Little Inconvenience as Nikki Klausing
- In the Glitter Palace as Ellen Lange
1976
- The Last Hard Men as Susan Burgade
- Trial by Combat as Marion Evans
1975
- You and Me as Waitress
- Diamonds as Sally
1974
- The Crazy World of Julius Vrooder as Zanni (as Barbara Seagull)
1973
- Angela – Love Comes Quietly as Angela
1972
- Boxcar Bertha as Boxcar Bertha
- Dealing: Or the Berkeley-to-Boston Forty-Brick Lost-Bag Blues as Susan
- Kung Fu as Nan Chi
1971
- The Pursuit of Happiness as Jane Kauffman
1970
- The Liberation of L.B. Jones as Nella Mundine
- The Baby Maker as Tish Gray
1969
- Heaven with a Gun as Leloopa
- Last Summer as Sandy
1968
- The Dick Cavett Show as Self - Guest
- With Six You Get Eggroll as Stacy Iverson
1967
- The High Chaparral as Moonfire
- The Invaders as Beth Ferguson
1966
- CBS Playhouse as Claire Gray
- The Monroes as Kathy Monroe
1965
- Run for Your Life as Saro-Jane
- Gidget
1964
- Daniel Boone as Dinah Hubbard
1962
1953
- The Oscars as Self