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 X-Files

    The X-Files

  • The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson

    The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson

  • Agatha Christie's Poirot

    Agatha Christie's Poirot

  • Once Upon a Time

    Once Upon a Time

  • Chicago Hope

    Chicago Hope

  • The Dick Cavett Show

    The Dick Cavett Show

  • The Invaders

    The Invaders

  • The Oscars

    The Oscars

  • Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre

    Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre

  • Run for Your Life

    Run for Your Life

  • Daniel Boone

    Daniel Boone

  • Black Swan

    Black Swan

  • The New Alfred Hitchcock Presents

    The New Alfred Hitchcock Presents

  • Faerie Tale Theatre

    Faerie Tale Theatre

  • The High Chaparral

    The High Chaparral

  • 9 Bullets

    9 Bullets

  • 11:14

    11:14

  • Swing Kids

    Swing Kids

  • Tune in Tomorrow...

    Tune in Tomorrow...

  • Hoosiers

    Hoosiers

  • Insidious

    Insidious

  • Paradise

    Paradise

  • Working

    Working

  • Flood!

    Flood!

  • Once Upon a Time in Wonderland

    Once Upon a Time in Wonderland

  • Passion

    Passion

  • Beaches

    Beaches

  • V Graham Norton

    V Graham Norton

  • Sunshine Christmas

    Sunshine Christmas

  • Tin Men

    Tin Men

  • Falling Down

    Falling Down

  • Insidious: Chapter 2

    Insidious: Chapter 2

  • Strange Darling

    Strange Darling

  • Beacon 23

    Beacon 23

  • The Portrait of a Lady

    The Portrait of a Lady

  • Diamonds

    Diamonds

  • Passion Flower

    Passion Flower

  • Stay the Night

    Stay the Night

  • Shy People

    Shy People

  • Hannah and Her Sisters

    Hannah and Her Sisters

  • A Dangerous Woman

    A Dangerous Woman

  • The Last Hard Men

    The Last Hard Men

  • Albert Schweitzer - Anatomie eines Heiligen

    Albert Schweitzer - Anatomie eines Heiligen

  • Damien

    Damien

  • You and Me

    You and Me

  • Insidious: The Last Key

    Insidious: The Last Key

  • Gidget

    Gidget

  • Return to Lonesome Dove

    Return to Lonesome Dove

  • Eugene the Marine

    Eugene the Marine

  • Splitting Heirs

    Splitting Heirs

  • The Last Temptation of Christ

    The Last Temptation of Christ

  • Martin Scorsese Directs

    Martin Scorsese Directs

  • The Monroes

    The Monroes

  • Anne of Green Gables

    Anne of Green Gables

  • The Natural

    The Natural

  • Sister

    Sister

  • The Right Stuff

    The Right Stuff

  • Breakfast of Champions

    Breakfast of Champions

  • The Entity

    The Entity

  • Daniel Deronda

    Daniel Deronda

  • Paradise Lost

    Paradise Lost

  • The Mountain

    The Mountain

  • Damien: Behind the Scenes

    Damien: Behind the Scenes

  • From Here to Eternity

    From Here to Eternity

  • The Pallbearer

    The Pallbearer

  • The Staircase

    The Staircase

  • Riding the Bullet

    Riding the Bullet

  • Boxcar Bertha

    Boxcar Bertha

  • Lantana

    Lantana

  • Abraham

    Abraham

  • A Man Called Intrepid

    A Man Called Intrepid

  • The Manor

    The Manor

  • Abraham

    Abraham

  • The 9th Life of Louis Drax

    The 9th Life of Louis Drax

  • Last of the Dogmen

    Last of the Dogmen

  • The Stunt Man

    The Stunt Man

  • Hunger Point

    Hunger Point

  • Outer Space

    Outer Space

  • Mickey's 60th Birthday

    Mickey's 60th Birthday

  • Heaven with a Gun

    Heaven with a Gun

  • Legacy of Screams: The Evolution of Horror Movies

    Legacy of Screams: The Evolution of Horror Movies

  • Kung Fu

    Kung Fu

  • A World Apart

    A World Apart

  • With Six You Get Eggroll

    With Six You Get Eggroll

  • The Public Eye

    The Public Eye

  • The Stranger Beside Me

    The Stranger Beside Me

  • The Nightingale

    The Nightingale

  • Experiments in Terror

    Experiments in Terror

  • Defenseless

    Defenseless

  • Trial by Combat

    Trial by Combat

  • Frogs for Snakes

    Frogs for Snakes

  • Paris Trout

    Paris Trout

  • Uncross the Stars

    Uncross the Stars

  • The Happy Days of Garry Marshall

    The Happy Days of Garry Marshall

  • Left to Die

    Left to Die

  • The Nature of Lantana

    The Nature of Lantana

  • Anne of Green Gables: A New Beginning

    Anne of Green Gables: A New Beginning

  • A Killing in a Small Town

    A Killing in a Small Town

  • Last Summer

    Last Summer

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

    My Wicked, Wicked Ways: The Legend of Errol Flynn

  • Americana

    Americana

  • A Soldier's Daughter Never Cries

    A Soldier's Daughter Never Cries

  • The Baby Maker

    The Baby Maker

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

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

  • The Crazy World of Julius Vrooder

    The Crazy World of Julius Vrooder

  • The Bird Can't Fly

    The Bird Can't Fly

  • Just a Little Inconvenience

    Just a Little Inconvenience

  • Answers to Nothing

    Answers to Nothing

  • Portrait: Jane Campion and The Portrait of a Lady

    Portrait: Jane Campion and The Portrait of a Lady

  • Albert Schweitzer

    Albert Schweitzer

  • The Liberation of L.B. Jones

    The Liberation of L.B. Jones

  • Take This Job and Shove It

    Take This Job and Shove It

  • In the Glitter Palace

    In the Glitter Palace

  • Love Comes Lately

    Love Comes Lately

  • Angel on My Shoulder

    Angel on My Shoulder

  • Childless

    Childless

  • The Sinister Saga of Making The Stunt Man

    The Sinister Saga of Making The Stunt Man

  • The Pursuit of Happiness

    The Pursuit of Happiness

  • Drowning on Dry Land

    Drowning on Dry Land

  • The Natural: The Best There Ever Was

    The Natural: The Best There Ever Was

  • The Entity Files

    The Entity Files

  • Angela - Love Comes Quietly

    Angela - Love Comes Quietly