Barbara Hershey
Acting
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.
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movieKrung Thep
2026
The Woman
movieWoodstockers
2026
Rebecca
movieLegacy of Screams: The Evolution of Horror Movies
2025
Self - (archive footage)
movieStrange Darling
2024
Genevieve
tvBeacon 23
2023
Sophie
movie9 Bullets
2022
Lacey
movieThe Manor
2021
Judith
tvParadise Lost
2020
Byrd Forsythe
movieInsidious: The Last Key
2018
Lorraine Lambert
movieThe 9th Life of Louis Drax
2016
Violet Drax
tvDamien
2016
Ann Rutledge
movieChildless
2015
Natalie
movieSister
2014
Connie
tvOnce Upon a Time in Wonderland
2013
Cora Mills
movieInsidious: Chapter 2
2013
Lorraine Lambert
movieLeft to Die
2012
Sandra Chase
tvOnce Upon a Time
2011
Cora / Queen of Hearts
movieInsidious
2011
Lorraine Lambert
movieBlack Swan
2010
Erica Sayers / The Queen
movieAlbert Schweitzer - Anatomie eines Heiligen
2010
Helene Schweitzer
movieAlbert Schweitzer
2009
Helene Schweitzer
movieAnne of Green Gables: A New Beginning
2008
Older Anne Shirley
movieLove Comes Lately
2007
Rosalie
movieRiding the Bullet
2004
Jean Parker
tvThe Mountain
2004
Gennie Carver
movie11:14
2004
Norma
movieParadise
2004
Elizabeth Paradise
movieThe Stranger Beside Me
2003
Ann Rule
movieHunger Point
2003
Marsha Hunter
tvDaniel Deronda
2002
Contessa Maria Alcharisi
movieLantana
2001
Valerie Somers
movieOuter Space
1999
(archive footage) (uncredited)
moviePassion
1999
Rose Grainger
movieBreakfast of Champions
1999
Celia Hoover
movieA Soldier's Daughter Never Cries
1998
Marcella Willis
movieFrogs for Snakes
1998
Eva Santana
movieThe Staircase
1998
Mother Madalyn
movieThe Portrait of a Lady
1996
Madame Serena Merle
movieThe Pallbearer
1996
Ruth Abernathy
movieLast of the Dogmen
1995
Prof. Lillian Diane Sloan
tvChicago Hope
1994
Francesca Alberghetti
tvAbraham
1994
Sarah
movieAbraham
1993
Sara
tvReturn to Lonesome Dove
1993
Clara Allen
movieA Dangerous Woman
1993
Frances
tvThe X-Files
1993
Erika Price
movieSplitting Heirs
1993
Duchess Lucinda
movieSwing Kids
1993
Frau Müller
movieThe Public Eye
1992
Kay Levitz
movieStay the Night
1992
Jimmie Sue Finger
movieDefenseless
1991
Thelma 'T.K.' Knudsen Katwuller
movieParis Trout
1991
Hanna Trout
movieTune in Tomorrow...
1990
Aunt Julia
movieA Killing in a Small Town
1990
Candy Morrison
tvAgatha Christie's Poirot
1989
Caroline Hubbard
movieBeaches
1988
Hillary Whitney Essex
movieA World Apart
1988
Diana Roth
movieThe Last Temptation of Christ
1988
Mary Magdalene
movieTin Men
1987
Nora Tilley
moviePassion Flower
1987
Julia Gaitland
movieHoosiers
1986
Myra Fleener
tvAnne of Green Gables
1985
Older Anne Shirley
tvThe New Alfred Hitchcock Presents
1985
Jessie Dean
movieThe Natural
1984
Harriet Bird
movieThe Right Stuff
1983
Glennis Yeager
movieThe Nightingale
1983
The Maid
movieTwilight Theater II
1982
Self- Guest
movieThe Entity
1982
Carla Moran
tvFaerie Tale Theatre
1982
The Maid
movieWorking
1982
Call Girl
tvAmerican Playhouse
1982
Call Girl / Lenore
movieAmericana
1981
Jess's Daughter
movieTake This Job and Shove It
1981
Jane Margaret ("J.M.") Halstead
movieThe Stunt Man
1980
Nina Franklin
From Here to Eternity
1980
Karen Holmes
tvA Man Called Intrepid
1979
Madelaine
movieSunshine Christmas
1977
Cody Blanks
movieFlood!
1977
Mary Cutler
movieIn the Glitter Palace
1977
Ellen Lange
movieThe Last Hard Men
1976
Susan Burgade
movieTrial by Combat
1976
Marion Evans
movieDiamonds
1975
Sally
movieYou and Me
1975
Waitress
movieThe Crazy World of Julius Vrooder
1974
Zanni (as Barbara Seagull)
tvKung Fu
1972
Nan Chi
movieBoxcar Bertha
1972
Boxcar Bertha
movieThe Pursuit of Happiness
1971
Jane Kauffman
movieThe Baby Maker
1970
Tish Gray
movieThe Liberation of L.B. Jones
1970
Nella Mundine
movieLast Summer
1969
Sandy
movieHeaven with a Gun
1969
Leloopa
movieWith Six You Get Eggroll
1968
Stacy Iverson
tvThe Dick Cavett Show
1968
Self - Guest
tvThe High Chaparral
1967
Moonfire
tvThe Invaders
1967
Beth Ferguson
CBS Playhouse
1966
Claire Gray
tvThe Monroes
1966
Kathy Monroe
tvRun for Your Life
1965
Saro-Jane
tvDaniel Boone
1964
Dinah Hubbard
tvThe Oscars
1953
Self