1948-02-05 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.
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Krung Thep | The Woman | 2026-03-30 |
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Woodstockers | Rebecca | 2026-03-14 |
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Legacy of Screams: The Evolution of Horror Movies | Self - (archive footage) | 2025-11-21 |
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Strange Darling | Genevieve | 2024-08-14 |
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9 Bullets | Lacey | 2022-04-14 |
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The Manor | Judith | 2021-10-08 |
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The Happy Days of Garry Marshall | Self | 2020-05-12 |
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Insidious: The Last Key | Lorraine Lambert | 2018-01-03 |
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The Natural: The Best There Ever Was | Self | 2016-04-16 |
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The 9th Life of Louis Drax | Violet Drax | 2016-09-01 |
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Damien: Behind the Scenes | Self | 2016-03-11 |
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Childless | Natalie | 2015-04-03 |
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Sister | Connie | 2014-04-25 |
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Insidious: Chapter 2 | Lorraine Lambert | 2013-09-12 |
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Left to Die | Sandra Chase | 2012-11-04 |
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Answers to Nothing | Marilyn | 2011-09-22 |
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Insidious | Lorraine Lambert | 2011-03-31 |
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Albert Schweitzer - Anatomie eines Heiligen | Helene Schweitzer | 2010-06-05 |
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Black Swan | Erica Sayers / The Queen | 2010-12-03 |
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Albert Schweitzer - Ein Leben für Afrika | Helene Schweitzer | 2009-12-24 |
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The Bird Can't Fly | Melody | 2008-01-03 |
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Anne of Green Gables: A New Beginning | Older Anne Shirley | 2008-12-04 |
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Uncross the Stars | Hilda | 2008-01-01 |
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Love Comes Lately | Rosalie | 2007-09-09 |
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The Entity Files | Self | 2005-05-03 |
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11:14 | Norma | 2004-08-20 |
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Paradise | Elizabeth Paradise | 2004-01-01 |
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Riding the Bullet | Jean Parker | 2004-10-15 |
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Experiments in Terror | 2003-12-11 | |
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The Stranger Beside Me | Ann Rule | 2003-03-20 |
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Realizing The Right Stuff | Self | 2003-06-10 |
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Hunger Point | Marsha Hunter | 2003-01-13 |
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The Nature of Lantana | Self | 2002-08-13 |
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Lantana | Valerie Somers | 2001-10-04 |
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The Sinister Saga of Making The Stunt Man | 2000-02-21 | |
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Passion | Rose Grainger | 1999-07-01 |
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Outer Space | (archive footage) (uncredited) | 1999-09-24 |
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Breakfast of Champions | Celia Hoover | 1999-02-18 |
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Drowning on Dry Land | Kate | 1999-10-01 |
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The Staircase | Mother Madalyn | 1998-04-12 |
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Frogs for Snakes | Eva Santana | 1998-08-14 |
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A Soldier's Daughter Never Cries | Marcella Willis | 1998-09-18 |
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Portrait: Jane Campion and The Portrait of a Lady | Self | 1997-01-01 |
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The Portrait of a Lady | Madame Serena Merle | 1996-10-17 |
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The Pallbearer | Ruth Abernathy | 1996-05-03 |
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Last of the Dogmen | Prof. Lillian Diane Sloan | 1995-09-08 |
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Falling Down | Beth | 1993-02-26 |
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A Dangerous Woman | Frances | 1993-09-10 |
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Swing Kids | Frau Müller | 1993-03-05 |
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Splitting Heirs | Duchess Lucinda | 1993-04-02 |
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Abraham | Sara | 1993-12-12 |
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Stay the Night | Jimmie Sue Finger | 1992-04-26 |
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The Public Eye | Kay Levitz | 1992-10-16 |
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Defenseless | Thelma 'T.K.' Knudsen Katwuller | 1991-08-23 |
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Paris Trout | Hanna Trout | 1991-04-21 |
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A Killing in a Small Town | Candy Morrison | 1990-05-22 |
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Tune in Tomorrow... | Aunt Julia | 1990-10-26 |
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Martin Scorsese Directs | Self | 1990-06-16 |
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Mickey's 60th Birthday | Self | 1988-11-13 |
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The Last Temptation of Christ | Mary Magdalene | 1988-05-28 |
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A World Apart | Diana Roth | 1988-06-17 |
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Beaches | Hillary Whitney Essex | 1988-12-21 |
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Tin Men | Nora Tilley | 1987-03-06 |
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Passion Flower | Julia Gaitland | 1987-03-04 |
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Shy People | Ruth | 1987-12-04 |
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Hannah and Her Sisters | Lee | 1986-02-07 |
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Hoosiers | Myra Fleener | 1986-11-14 |
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My Wicked, Wicked Ways: The Legend of Errol Flynn | Lili Damita | 1985-01-21 |
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The Natural | Harriet Bird | 1984-05-11 |
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The Nightingale | The Maid | 1983-05-10 |
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The Right Stuff | Glennis Yeager | 1983-10-20 |
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The Entity | Carla Moran | 1982-09-30 |
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Working | Call Girl | 1982-04-13 |
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Take This Job and Shove It | Jane Margaret ("J.M.") Halstead | 1981-04-24 |
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Americana | Jess's Daughter | 1981-05-16 |
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Angel on My Shoulder | Julie | 1980-05-11 |
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The Stunt Man | Nina Franklin | 1980-06-27 |
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Just a Little Inconvenience | Nikki Klausing | 1977-10-02 |
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Sunshine Christmas | Cody Blanks | 1977-12-12 |
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Flood! | Mary Cutler | 1977-06-05 |
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In the Glitter Palace | Ellen Lange | 1977-02-27 |
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Trial by Combat | Marion Evans | 1976-04-01 |
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The Last Hard Men | Susan Burgade | 1976-04-22 |
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Diamonds | Sally | 1975-10-22 |
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You and Me | Waitress | 1975-05-31 |
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The Crazy World of Julius Vrooder | Zanni (as Barbara Seagull) | 1974-10-17 |
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Angela – Love Comes Quietly | Angela | 1973-09-07 |
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Boxcar Bertha | Boxcar Bertha | 1972-06-14 |
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Dealing: Or the Berkeley-to-Boston Forty-Brick Lost-Bag Blues | Susan | 1972-02-25 |
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The Pursuit of Happiness | Jane Kauffman | 1971-02-23 |
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The Baby Maker | Tish Gray | 1970-10-01 |
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The Liberation of L.B. Jones | Nella Mundine | 1970-03-18 |
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Last Summer | Sandy | 1969-06-19 |
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Heaven with a Gun | Leloopa | 1969-05-20 |
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With Six You Get Eggroll | Stacy Iverson | 1968-08-07 |
