Barbara Hershey
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- February 5, 1948
- Birthplace
- 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). Description above from the Wikipedia article Barbara Hershey, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Filmography
- The Last Seder
The Last Seder TBA
Actor
As Far Back As I Can Remember... The Story of Goodfellas 2026
as Self (archive footage)
Krung Thep 2026
as The Woman
Woodstockers 2026
as Rebecca
Legacy of Screams: The Evolution of Horror Movies 2025
as Self (archive footage)
Strange Darling 2024
as Genevieve
9 Bullets 2022
as Lacey
The Manor 2021
as Judith
The Happy Days of Garry Marshall 2020
as Self
Once Upon a Time: And They Lived Happily Ever After 2018
as Self
Insidious: The Last Key 2018
as Lorraine Lambert
The 9th Life of Louis Drax 2016
as Violet Drax
The Natural: The Best There Ever Was 2016
as Self
Damien: Behind the Scenes 2016
as Self
Childless 2015
as Natalie
Sister 2014
as Connie
Insidious: Chapter 2 2013
as Lorraine Lambert
Left to Die 2012
as Sandra Chase
Answers to Nothing 2011
as Marilyn
Insidious 2011
as Lorraine Lambert
Black Swan 2010
as Erica Sayers / The Queen
Albert Schweitzer - Anatomie eines Heiligen 2010
as Helene Schweitzer
Albert Schweitzer 2009
as Helene Schweitzer
Anne of Green Gables: A New Beginning 2008
as Older Anne Shirley
The Bird Can't Fly 2008
as Melody
Nick Nolte: No Exit 2008
as Self
Uncross the Stars 2008
as Hilda
Love Comes Lately 2007
as Rosalie
The Entity Files 2005
as Self
Riding the Bullet 2004
as Jean Parker
11:14 2004
as Norma
Paradise 2004
as Elizabeth Paradise
Experiments in Terror 2003
Actor
Realizing The Right Stuff 2003
as Self
The Stranger Beside Me 2003
as Ann Rule
Hunger Point 2003
as Marsha Hunter
The Nature of Lantana 2002
as Self
Lantana 2001
as Valerie Somers
The Sinister Saga of Making The Stunt Man 2000
Actor
Drowning on Dry Land 1999
as Kate
Outer Space 1999
as (archive footage) (uncredited)
Passion 1999
as Rose Grainger
Breakfast of Champions 1999
as Celia Hoover
A Soldier's Daughter Never Cries 1998
as Marcella Willis
Frogs for Snakes 1998
as Eva Santana
The Staircase 1998
as Mother Madalyn
Portrait: Jane Campion and The Portrait of a Lady 1997
as Self
The Portrait of a Lady 1996
as Madame Serena Merle
The Pallbearer 1996
as Ruth Abernathy
Last of the Dogmen 1995
as Prof. Lillian Diane Sloan
Abraham 1993
as Sara
A Dangerous Woman 1993
as Frances
Splitting Heirs 1993
as Duchess Lucinda
Swing Kids 1993
as Frau Müller
Falling Down 1993
as Beth
The Public Eye 1992
as Kay Levitz
Stay the Night 1992
as Jimmie Sue Finger
Defenseless 1991
as Thelma 'T.K.' Knudsen Katwuller
Paris Trout 1991
as Hanna Trout
Tune in Tomorrow... 1990
as Aunt Julia
Martin Scorsese Directs 1990
as Self
A Killing in a Small Town 1990
as Candy Morrison
Beaches 1988
as Hillary Whitney Essex
Mickey's 60th Birthday 1988
as Self
A World Apart 1988
as Diana Roth
The Last Temptation of Christ 1988
as Mary Magdalene
Shy People 1987
as Ruth
Tin Men 1987
as Nora Tilley
Passion Flower 1987
as Julia Gaitland
Hoosiers 1986
as Myra Fleener
Hannah and Her Sisters 1986
as Lee
My Wicked, Wicked Ways: The Legend of Errol Flynn 1985
as Lili Damita
The Natural 1984
as Harriet Bird
The Right Stuff 1983
as Glennis Yeager
The Nightingale 1983
as The Maid
Twilight Theater II 1982
as Self- Guest
The Entity 1982
as Carla Moran
Working 1982
as Call Girl
Americana 1981
as Jess's Daughter
Take This Job and Shove It 1981
as Jane Margaret ("J.M.") Halstead
The Stunt Man 1980
as Nina Franklin
Angel on My Shoulder 1980
as Julie
Sunshine Christmas 1977
as Cody Blanks
Just a Little Inconvenience 1977
as Nikki Klausing
Flood! 1977
as Mary Cutler
In the Glitter Palace 1977
as Ellen Lange
The Last Hard Men 1976
as Susan Burgade
Trial by Combat 1976
as Marion Evans
Diamonds 1975
as Sally
You and Me 1975
as Waitress
The Crazy World of Julius Vrooder 1974
as Zanni (as Barbara Seagull)
Angela – Love Comes Quietly 1973
as Angela
Boxcar Bertha 1972
as Boxcar Bertha
Dealing: Or the Berkeley-to-Boston Forty-Brick Lost-Bag Blues 1972
as Susan
The Pursuit of Happiness 1971
as Jane Kauffman
The Baby Maker 1970
as Tish Gray
The Liberation of L.B. Jones 1970
as Nella Mundine
Last Summer 1969
as Sandy
Heaven with a Gun 1969
as Leloopa
With Six You Get Eggroll 1968
as Stacy Iverson
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