Barbara Hershey

Personal Info

Known For

Acting

Known Credits

122

Gender

Female

Birthday

1948-02-05 (77 years old)

Place of Birth

Hollywood, California, USA

Barbara Hershey

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.

Known For

  • The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson

    The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson

  • The X-Files

    The X-Files

  • Agatha Christie's Poirot

    Agatha Christie's Poirot

  • Once Upon a Time

    Once Upon a Time

  • Chicago Hope

    Chicago Hope

  • Faerie Tale Theatre

    Faerie Tale Theatre

  • Daniel Boone

    Daniel Boone

  • The High Chaparral

    The High Chaparral

  • The Dick Cavett Show

    The Dick Cavett Show

  • Insidious: Chapter 2

    Insidious: Chapter 2

  • Black Swan

    Black Swan

  • The Invaders

    The Invaders

  • My Wicked, Wicked Ways: The Legend of Errol Flynn

    My Wicked, Wicked Ways: The Legend of Errol Flynn

  • Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre

    Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre

  • The New Alfred Hitchcock Presents

    The New Alfred Hitchcock Presents

  • Insidious

    Insidious

  • Albert Schweitzer

    Albert Schweitzer

  • The Sinister Saga of Making The Stunt Man

    The Sinister Saga of Making The Stunt Man

  • Run for Your Life

    Run for Your Life

  • The Oscars

    The Oscars

  • Last of the Dogmen

    Last of the Dogmen

  • Anne of Green Gables: A New Beginning

    Anne of Green Gables: A New Beginning

  • With Six You Get Eggroll

    With Six You Get Eggroll

  • V Graham Norton

    V Graham Norton

  • Strange Darling

    Strange Darling

  • The 9th Life of Louis Drax

    The 9th Life of Louis Drax

  • Insidious: The Last Key

    Insidious: The Last Key

  • The Entity

    The Entity

  • Beaches

    Beaches

  • Beacon 23

    Beacon 23

  • Once Upon a Time in Wonderland

    Once Upon a Time in Wonderland

  • The Last Temptation of Christ

    The Last Temptation of Christ

  • Falling Down

    Falling Down

  • 9 Bullets

    9 Bullets

  • The Baby Maker

    The Baby Maker

  • Hoosiers

    Hoosiers

  • Abraham

    Abraham

  • Swing Kids

    Swing Kids

  • Anne of Green Gables

    Anne of Green Gables

  • Gidget

    Gidget

  • Childless

    Childless

  • Hannah and Her Sisters

    Hannah and Her Sisters

  • Hunger Point

    Hunger Point

  • The Crazy World of Julius Vrooder

    The Crazy World of Julius Vrooder

  • Diamonds

    Diamonds

  • The Manor

    The Manor

  • Boxcar Bertha

    Boxcar Bertha

  • Splitting Heirs

    Splitting Heirs

  • The Staircase

    The Staircase

  • The Pallbearer

    The Pallbearer

  • Last Summer

    Last Summer

  • Flood!

    Flood!

  • The Portrait of a Lady

    The Portrait of a Lady

  • The Right Stuff

    The Right Stuff

  • Return to Lonesome Dove

    Return to Lonesome Dove

  • Damien

    Damien

  • Shy People

    Shy People

  • The Natural

    The Natural

  • Tin Men

    Tin Men

  • The Monroes

    The Monroes

  • A Soldier's Daughter Never Cries

    A Soldier's Daughter Never Cries

  • A Killing in a Small Town

    A Killing in a Small Town

  • Paradise Lost

    Paradise Lost

  • 11:14

    11:14

  • Legacy of Screams: The Evolution of Horror Movies

    Legacy of Screams: The Evolution of Horror Movies

  • Working

    Working

  • The Entity Files

    The Entity Files

  • The Stunt Man

    The Stunt Man

  • Left to Die

    Left to Die

  • The Mountain

    The Mountain

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

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

  • The Nightingale

    The Nightingale

  • Passion

    Passion

  • A World Apart

    A World Apart

  • The Liberation of L.B. Jones

    The Liberation of L.B. Jones

  • Daniel Deronda

    Daniel Deronda

  • The Last Hard Men

    The Last Hard Men

  • The Public Eye

    The Public Eye

  • Paradise

    Paradise

  • A Dangerous Woman

    A Dangerous Woman

  • The Stranger Beside Me

    The Stranger Beside Me

  • Breakfast of Champions

    Breakfast of Champions

  • Paris Trout

    Paris Trout

  • Passion Flower

    Passion Flower

  • Heaven with a Gun

    Heaven with a Gun

  • Angel on My Shoulder

    Angel on My Shoulder

  • The Nature of Lantana

    The Nature of Lantana

  • Sunshine Christmas

    Sunshine Christmas

  • Riding the Bullet

    Riding the Bullet

  • Stay the Night

    Stay the Night

  • The Pursuit of Happiness

    The Pursuit of Happiness

  • Martin Scorsese Directs

    Martin Scorsese Directs

  • The Natural: The Best There Ever Was

    The Natural: The Best There Ever Was

  • Lantana

    Lantana

  • Answers to Nothing

    Answers to Nothing

  • Abraham

    Abraham

  • From Here to Eternity

    From Here to Eternity

  • Tune in Tomorrow...

    Tune in Tomorrow...

  • Trial by Combat

    Trial by Combat

  • The Happy Days of Garry Marshall

    The Happy Days of Garry Marshall

  • Sister

    Sister

  • In the Glitter Palace

    In the Glitter Palace

  • Frogs for Snakes

    Frogs for Snakes

  • Albert Schweitzer - Anatomie eines Heiligen

    Albert Schweitzer - Anatomie eines Heiligen

  • Experiments in Terror

    Experiments in Terror

  • Love Comes Lately

    Love Comes Lately

  • The Bird Can't Fly

    The Bird Can't Fly

  • Eugene the Marine

    Eugene the Marine

  • You and Me

    You and Me

  • Just a Little Inconvenience

    Just a Little Inconvenience

  • Damien: Behind the Scenes

    Damien: Behind the Scenes

  • A Man Called Intrepid

    A Man Called Intrepid

  • Portrait: Jane Campion and The Portrait of a Lady

    Portrait: Jane Campion and The Portrait of a Lady

  • Mickey's 60th Birthday

    Mickey's 60th Birthday

  • Kung Fu

    Kung Fu

  • Defenseless

    Defenseless

  • Take This Job and Shove It

    Take This Job and Shove It

  • Uncross the Stars

    Uncross the Stars

  • Americana

    Americana

  • Angela - Love Comes Quietly

    Angela - Love Comes Quietly

  • Outer Space

    Outer Space

  • Drowning on Dry Land

    Drowning on Dry Land