Barbara Hershey
Acting
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.
Born: February 5, 1948
Place of Birth: Hollywood, California, USA
Known For
Filmography
as Frances
as Genevieve
as Sophie
as Lacey
as Judith
as Byrd Forsythe
as Lorraine Lambert
as Violet Drax
as Self
as Ann Rutledge
as Natalie
as Connie
as Cora Mills
as Lorraine Lambert
as Sandra Chase
as Cora / Queen of Hearts
as Marilyn
as Lorraine Lambert
as Erica Sayers / The Queen
as Helene Schweitzer
as Helene Schweitzer
as Older Anne Shirley
as Melody
as Hilda
as Rosalie
as Self
as Jean Parker
as Gennie Carver
as Elizabeth Paradise
as Norma
as Ann Rule
as Marsha Hunter
as Self
as Self
as Valerie Somers
as Kate
as Rose Grainger
as Celia Hoover
as (archive footage) (uncredited)
as Marcella Willis
as Eva Santana
as Mother Madalyn
as Madame Serena Merle
as Ruth Abernathy
as Prof. Lillian Diane Sloan
as Francesca Alberghetti
as Sarah
as Sara
as Clara Allen
as Erika Price
as Frances
as Duchess Lucinda
as Frau Müller
as Beth
as Kay Levitz
as Jimmie Sue Finger
as Thelma 'T.K.' Knudsen Katwuller
as Hanna Trout
as Aunt Julia
as Self
as Candy Morrison
as Caroline Hubbard
as Hillary Whitney Essex
as Self
as Diana Roth
as Mary Magdalene
as Ruth
as Nora Tilley
as Julia Gaitland
as Myra Fleener
as Lee
as Older Anne Shirley
as Jessie Dean
as Lili Damita
as Harriet Bird
as Glennis Yeager
as The Maid
as Carla Moran
as The Maid
as Call Girl
as Jess's Daughter
as Jane Margaret ("J.M.") Halstead
as Nina Franklin
as Julie
as Madelaine
as Madelaine
as Cody Blanks
as Mary Cutler
as Ellen Lange
as Susan Burgade
as Marion Evans
as Sally
as Waitress
as Zanni (as Barbara Seagull)
as Angela
as Nan Chi
as Boxcar Bertha
as Jane Kauffman
as Tish Gray
as Nella Mundine
as Sandy
as Leloopa
as Stacy Iverson
as Self - Guest
as Moonfire
as Beth Ferguson
as Kathy Monroe
as Saro-Jane
as Dinah Hubbard
as Self