Barbara Hershey
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- Feb 5, 1948 (age 78)
- Place of birth
- Hollywood, California, USA
- Credits
- 131
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).
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Known for
Black Swan
2010Movie
Erica Sayers / The Queen
Insidious
2011Movie
Lorraine Lambert
Insidious: Chapter 2
2013Movie
Lorraine Lambert
Falling Down
1993Movie
Beth
The X-Files
1993TV
Erika Price
Insidious: The Last Key
2018Movie
Lorraine Lambert
Filmography
As Far Back As I Can Remember... The Story of Goodfellas
2026Movie
Self (archive footage)
Krung Thep
2026Movie
The Woman
Woodstockers
2026Movie
Rebecca
Legacy of Screams: The Evolution of Horror Movies
2025Movie
Self (archive footage)
Strange Darling
2024Movie
Genevieve
Beacon 23
2023TV
Sophie
9 Bullets
2022Movie
Lacey
The Manor
2021Movie
Judith
The Happy Days of Garry Marshall
2020Movie
Self
Paradise Lost
2020TV
Byrd Forsythe
Once Upon a Time: And They Lived Happily Ever After
2018Movie
Self
Insidious: The Last Key
2018Movie
Lorraine Lambert
The 9th Life of Louis Drax
2016Movie
Violet Drax
The Natural: The Best There Ever Was
2016Movie
Self
Damien: Behind the Scenes
2016Movie
Self
Damien
2016TV
Ann Rutledge
Childless
2015Movie
Natalie
Sister
2014Movie
Connie
Once Upon a Time in Wonderland
2013TV
Cora Mills
Insidious: Chapter 2
2013Movie
Lorraine Lambert
Left to Die
2012Movie
Sandra Chase
Once Upon a Time
2011TV
Cora / Queen of Hearts
Answers to Nothing
2011Movie
Marilyn
Insidious
2011Movie
Lorraine Lambert
Black Swan
2010Movie
Erica Sayers / The Queen
Albert Schweitzer - Anatomie eines Heiligen
2010Movie
Helene Schweitzer
Albert Schweitzer
2009Movie
Helene Schweitzer
Anne of Green Gables: A New Beginning
2008Movie
Older Anne Shirley
The Bird Can't Fly
2008Movie
Melody
Uncross the Stars
2008Movie
Hilda
Nick Nolte: No Exit
2008Movie
Self
Love Comes Lately
2007Movie
Rosalie
The Entity Files
2005Movie
Self
Riding the Bullet
2004Movie
Jean Parker
The Mountain
2004TV
Gennie Carver
11:14
2004Movie
Norma
Paradise
2004Movie
Elizabeth Paradise
Experiments in Terror
2003Movie
Realizing The Right Stuff
2003Movie
Self
The Stranger Beside Me
2003Movie
Ann Rule
Hunger Point
2003Movie
Marsha Hunter
Daniel Deronda
2002TV
Contessa Maria Alcharisi
The Nature of Lantana
2002Movie
Self
V Graham Norton
2002TV
Self
Lantana
2001Movie
Valerie Somers
The Sinister Saga of Making The Stunt Man
2000Movie
Drowning on Dry Land
1999Movie
Kate
Outer Space
1999Movie
(archive footage) (uncredited)
Passion
1999Movie
Rose Grainger
Breakfast of Champions
1999Movie
Celia Hoover
A Soldier's Daughter Never Cries
1998Movie
Marcella Willis
Frogs for Snakes
1998Movie
Eva Santana
The Staircase
1998Movie
Mother Madalyn
Portrait: Jane Campion and The Portrait of a Lady
1997Movie
Self
The Portrait of a Lady
1996Movie
Madame Serena Merle
The Pallbearer
1996Movie
Ruth Abernathy
Last of the Dogmen
1995Movie
Prof. Lillian Diane Sloan
Chicago Hope
1994TV
Francesca Alberghetti
Abraham
1993Movie
Sara
Abraham
1993TV
Sarah
Return to Lonesome Dove
1993TV
Clara Allen
A Dangerous Woman
1993Movie
Frances
The X-Files
1993TV
Erika Price
Splitting Heirs
1993Movie
Duchess Lucinda
Swing Kids
1993Movie
Frau Müller
Falling Down
1993Movie
Beth
The Public Eye
1992Movie
Kay Levitz
Stay the Night
1992Movie
Jimmie Sue Finger
Defenseless
1991Movie
Thelma 'T.K.' Knudsen Katwuller
Paris Trout
1991Movie
Hanna Trout
Tune in Tomorrow...
1990Movie
Aunt Julia
Martin Scorsese Directs
1990Movie
Self
A Killing in a Small Town
1990Movie
Candy Morrison
Agatha Christie's Poirot
1989TV
Caroline Hubbard
Beaches
1988Movie
Hillary Whitney Essex
Mickey's 60th Birthday
1988Movie
Self
A World Apart
1988Movie
Diana Roth
The Last Temptation of Christ
1988Movie
Mary Magdalene
Shy People
1987Movie
Ruth
Tin Men
1987Movie
Nora Tilley
Passion Flower
1987Movie
Julia Gaitland
Hoosiers
1986Movie
Myra Fleener
Hannah and Her Sisters
1986Movie
Lee
Anne of Green Gables
1985TV
Older Anne Shirley
The New Alfred Hitchcock Presents
1985TV
Jessie Dean
My Wicked, Wicked Ways: The Legend of Errol Flynn
1985Movie
Lili Damita
The Natural
1984Movie
Harriet Bird
The Right Stuff
1983Movie
Glennis Yeager
The Nightingale
1983Movie
The Maid
Twilight Theater II
1982Movie
Self- Guest
The Entity
1982Movie
Carla Moran
Faerie Tale Theatre
1982TV
The Maid
Working
1982Movie
Call Girl
American Playhouse
1982TV
Call Girl, Lenore
Americana
1981Movie
Jess's Daughter
Take This Job and Shove It
1981Movie
Jane Margaret ("J.M.") Halstead
The Stunt Man
1980Movie
Nina Franklin
Angel on My Shoulder
1980Movie
Julie
From Here to Eternity
1980TV
Karen Holmes
A Man Called Intrepid
1979TV
Madelaine
Sunshine Christmas
1977Movie
Cody Blanks
Just a Little Inconvenience
1977Movie
Nikki Klausing
Flood!
1977Movie
Mary Cutler
In the Glitter Palace
1977Movie
Ellen Lange
The Last Hard Men
1976Movie
Susan Burgade
Trial by Combat
1976Movie
Marion Evans
Diamonds
1975Movie
Sally
You and Me
1975Movie
Waitress
The Crazy World of Julius Vrooder
1974Movie
Zanni (as Barbara Seagull)
Angela – Love Comes Quietly
1973Movie
Angela
Kung Fu
1972TV
Nan Chi
Boxcar Bertha
1972Movie
Boxcar Bertha
Dealing: Or the Berkeley-to-Boston Forty-Brick Lost-Bag Blues
1972Movie
Susan
The Pursuit of Happiness
1971Movie
Jane Kauffman
The Baby Maker
1970Movie
Tish Gray
The Liberation of L.B. Jones
1970Movie
Nella Mundine
Last Summer
1969Movie
Sandy
Heaven with a Gun
1969Movie
Leloopa
With Six You Get Eggroll
1968Movie
Stacy Iverson
The Dick Cavett Show
1968TV
Self - Guest
The High Chaparral
1967TV
Moonfire
The Invaders
1967TV
Beth Ferguson
CBS Playhouse
1966TV
Claire Gray
The Monroes
1966TV
Kathy Monroe
Gidget
1965TV
Run for Your Life
1965TV
Saro-Jane
Daniel Boone
1964TV
Dinah Hubbard
Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre
1963TV
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
1962TV
Self
The Oscars
1953TV
Self
The Last Seder
Movie