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

  • Daniel Boone

    Daniel Boone

  • Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre

    Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre

  • The Dick Cavett Show

    The Dick Cavett Show

  • The High Chaparral

    The High Chaparral

  • The New Alfred Hitchcock Presents

    The New Alfred Hitchcock Presents

  • Run for Your Life

    Run for Your Life

  • V Graham Norton

    V Graham Norton

  • Strange Darling

    Strange Darling

  • Insidious

    Insidious

  • The Oscars

    The Oscars

  • Faerie Tale Theatre

    Faerie Tale Theatre

  • Black Swan

    Black Swan

  • The Invaders

    The Invaders

  • Falling Down

    Falling Down

  • Insidious: The Last Key

    Insidious: The Last Key

  • Insidious: Chapter 2

    Insidious: Chapter 2

  • Beacon 23

    Beacon 23

  • Gidget

    Gidget

  • Lantana

    Lantana

  • Answers to Nothing

    Answers to Nothing

  • The Portrait of a Lady

    The Portrait of a Lady

  • The Happy Days of Garry Marshall

    The Happy Days of Garry Marshall

  • The Natural

    The Natural

  • Once Upon a Time in Wonderland

    Once Upon a Time in Wonderland

  • A Killing in a Small Town

    A Killing in a Small Town

  • With Six You Get Eggroll

    With Six You Get Eggroll

  • The Monroes

    The Monroes

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

    My Wicked, Wicked Ways: The Legend of Errol Flynn

  • Abraham

    Abraham

  • Love Comes Lately

    Love Comes Lately

  • The Last Temptation of Christ

    The Last Temptation of Christ

  • Heaven with a Gun

    Heaven with a Gun

  • Diamonds

    Diamonds

  • Damien

    Damien

  • Breakfast of Champions

    Breakfast of Champions

  • The Liberation of L.B. Jones

    The Liberation of L.B. Jones

  • The Sinister Saga of Making The Stunt Man

    The Sinister Saga of Making The Stunt Man

  • The Manor

    The Manor

  • Albert Schweitzer

    Albert Schweitzer

  • Tune in Tomorrow...

    Tune in Tomorrow...

  • 9 Bullets

    9 Bullets

  • The Public Eye

    The Public Eye

  • Riding the Bullet

    Riding the Bullet

  • Trial by Combat

    Trial by Combat

  • The Nature of Lantana

    The Nature of Lantana

  • A Man Called Intrepid

    A Man Called Intrepid

  • 11:14

    11:14

  • The Pursuit of Happiness

    The Pursuit of Happiness

  • Left to Die

    Left to Die

  • The Entity

    The Entity

  • Return to Lonesome Dove

    Return to Lonesome Dove

  • Anne of Green Gables: A New Beginning

    Anne of Green Gables: A New Beginning

  • Anne of Green Gables

    Anne of Green Gables

  • Frogs for Snakes

    Frogs for Snakes

  • Paradise Lost

    Paradise Lost

  • Childless

    Childless

  • Daniel Deronda

    Daniel Deronda

  • A Soldier's Daughter Never Cries

    A Soldier's Daughter Never Cries

  • The Mountain

    The Mountain

  • The Right Stuff

    The Right Stuff

  • Tin Men

    Tin Men

  • Americana

    Americana

  • You and Me

    You and Me

  • The Pallbearer

    The Pallbearer

  • Swing Kids

    Swing Kids

  • Beaches

    Beaches

  • The Stunt Man

    The Stunt Man

  • A Dangerous Woman

    A Dangerous Woman

  • Paradise

    Paradise

  • Passion

    Passion

  • Angel on My Shoulder

    Angel on My Shoulder

  • The Staircase

    The Staircase

  • Last of the Dogmen

    Last of the Dogmen

  • Hoosiers

    Hoosiers

  • Hannah and Her Sisters

    Hannah and Her Sisters

  • The Baby Maker

    The Baby Maker

  • The Stranger Beside Me

    The Stranger Beside Me

  • A World Apart

    A World Apart

  • Working

    Working

  • The Nightingale

    The Nightingale

  • Sunshine Christmas

    Sunshine Christmas

  • Splitting Heirs

    Splitting Heirs

  • Martin Scorsese Directs

    Martin Scorsese Directs

  • Flood!

    Flood!

  • Albert Schweitzer - Anatomie eines Heiligen

    Albert Schweitzer - Anatomie eines Heiligen

  • Abraham

    Abraham

  • Boxcar Bertha

    Boxcar Bertha

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

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

  • Eugene the Marine

    Eugene the Marine

  • The Natural: The Best There Ever Was

    The Natural: The Best There Ever Was

  • Hunger Point

    Hunger Point

  • Stay the Night

    Stay the Night

  • The Bird Can't Fly

    The Bird Can't Fly

  • From Here to Eternity

    From Here to Eternity

  • The 9th Life of Louis Drax

    The 9th Life of Louis Drax

  • The Last Hard Men

    The Last Hard Men

  • Paris Trout

    Paris Trout

  • Last Summer

    Last Summer

  • Sister

    Sister

  • In the Glitter Palace

    In the Glitter Palace

  • The Entity Files

    The Entity Files

  • The Crazy World of Julius Vrooder

    The Crazy World of Julius Vrooder

  • A Man Called Intrepid

    A Man Called Intrepid

  • Kung Fu

    Kung Fu

  • Just a Little Inconvenience

    Just a Little Inconvenience

  • Shy People

    Shy People

  • Passion Flower

    Passion Flower

  • Damien: Behind the Scenes

    Damien: Behind the Scenes

  • 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

  • Uncross the Stars

    Uncross the Stars

  • Drowning on Dry Land

    Drowning on Dry Land

  • Defenseless

    Defenseless

  • Angela - Love Comes Quietly

    Angela - Love Comes Quietly

  • Take This Job and Shove It

    Take This Job and Shove It

  • Outer Space

    Outer Space

  • Murder on the Orient Express

    Murder on the Orient Express