Barbara Hershey

Actor

Born February 5, 1948 in Hollywood, California, USA

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).

Filmography

Krung Thep

The Woman

Woodstockers

Rebecca

Legacy of Screams: The Evolution of Horror Movies

Self - (archive footage)

Strange Darling

Genevieve

Beacon 23

Sophie

9 Bullets

Lacey

The Manor

Judith

The Happy Days of Garry Marshall

Self

Paradise Lost

Byrd Forsythe

Once Upon a Time: And They Lived Happily Ever After

Self

Insidious: The Last Key

Lorraine Lambert

The 9th Life of Louis Drax

Violet Drax

The Natural: The Best There Ever Was

Self

Damien: Behind the Scenes

Self

Damien

Ann Rutledge

Childless

Natalie

Sister

Connie

Once Upon a Time in Wonderland

Cora Mills

Insidious: Chapter 2

Lorraine Lambert

Left to Die

Sandra Chase

Once Upon a Time

Cora / Queen of Hearts

Insidious

Lorraine Lambert

Black Swan

Erica Sayers / The Queen

Albert Schweitzer - Anatomie eines Heiligen

Helene Schweitzer

Albert Schweitzer

Helene Schweitzer

Anne of Green Gables: A New Beginning

Older Anne Shirley

The Bird Can't Fly

Melody

Uncross the Stars

Hilda

Love Comes Lately

Rosalie

The Entity Files

Self

Riding the Bullet

Jean Parker

The Mountain

Gennie Carver

11:14

Norma

Paradise

Elizabeth Paradise

Experiments in Terror

Realizing The Right Stuff

Self

The Stranger Beside Me

Ann Rule

Hunger Point

Marsha Hunter

Daniel Deronda

Contessa Maria Alcharisi

The Nature of Lantana

Self

V Graham Norton

Self

Lantana

Valerie Somers

The Sinister Saga of Making The Stunt Man

Drowning on Dry Land

Kate

Outer Space

(archive footage) (uncredited)

Passion

Rose Grainger

Breakfast of Champions

Celia Hoover

A Soldier's Daughter Never Cries

Marcella Willis

Frogs for Snakes

Eva Santana

The Staircase

Mother Madalyn

Portrait: Jane Campion and The Portrait of a Lady

Self

The Portrait of a Lady

Madame Serena Merle

The Pallbearer

Ruth Abernathy

Last of the Dogmen

Prof. Lillian Diane Sloan

Chicago Hope

Francesca Alberghetti

Abraham

Sarah

Abraham

Sara

Return to Lonesome Dove

Clara Allen

A Dangerous Woman

Frances

The X-Files

Erika Price

Splitting Heirs

Duchess Lucinda

Swing Kids

Frau Müller

Falling Down

Beth

The Public Eye

Kay Levitz

Stay the Night

Jimmie Sue Finger

Defenseless

Thelma 'T.K.' Knudsen Katwuller

Paris Trout

Hanna Trout

Tune in Tomorrow...

Aunt Julia

Martin Scorsese Directs

Self

A Killing in a Small Town

Candy Morrison

Agatha Christie's Poirot

Caroline Hubbard

Beaches

Hillary Whitney Essex

Mickey's 60th Birthday

Self

A World Apart

Diana Roth

The Last Temptation of Christ

Mary Magdalene

Shy People

Ruth

Tin Men

Nora Tilley

Passion Flower

Julia Gaitland

Hoosiers

Myra Fleener

Hannah and Her Sisters

Lee

Anne of Green Gables

Older Anne Shirley

The New Alfred Hitchcock Presents

Jessie Dean

My Wicked, Wicked Ways: The Legend of Errol Flynn

Lili Damita

The Natural

Harriet Bird

The Right Stuff

Glennis Yeager

The Nightingale

The Maid

Twilight Theater II

Self- Guest

The Entity

Carla Moran

Faerie Tale Theatre

The Maid

Working

Call Girl

American Playhouse

Call Girl

Americana

Jess's Daughter

Take This Job and Shove It

Jane Margaret ("J.M.") Halstead

The Stunt Man

Nina Franklin

Angel on My Shoulder

Julie

A Man Called Intrepid

Madelaine

Sunshine Christmas

Cody Blanks

Flood!

Mary Cutler

In the Glitter Palace

Ellen Lange

The Last Hard Men

Susan Burgade

Trial by Combat

Marion Evans

Diamonds

Sally

You and Me

Waitress

The Crazy World of Julius Vrooder

Zanni (as Barbara Seagull)

Angela – Love Comes Quietly

Angela

Kung Fu

Nan Chi

Boxcar Bertha

Dealing: Or the Berkeley-to-Boston Forty-Brick Lost-Bag Blues

Susan

The Pursuit of Happiness

Jane Kauffman

The Baby Maker

Tish Gray

The Liberation of L.B. Jones

Nella Mundine

Last Summer

Sandy

Heaven with a Gun

Leloopa

With Six You Get Eggroll

Stacy Iverson

The Dick Cavett Show

Self - Guest

The High Chaparral

Moonfire

The Invaders

Beth Ferguson

The Monroes

Kathy Monroe

Gidget

Run for Your Life

Saro-Jane

Daniel Boone

Dinah Hubbard

The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson

Self

The Oscars

Self