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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Strange Darling
Genevieve
2024
Beacon 23
Sophie · (2 episodes)
2023
9 Bullets
Lacey
2022
The Manor
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2021
The Happy Days of Garry Marshall
Self
2020
Paradise Lost
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2020
Insidious: The Last Key
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2018
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Violet Drax
2016
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2016
Childless
Natalie
2015
Sister
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2014
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2013
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2013
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2012
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2011
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2011
Insidious
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2011
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2010
Albert Schweitzer - Anatomie eines Heiligen
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2010
Albert Schweitzer
Helene Schweitzer
2009
Anne of Green Gables: A New Beginning
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2008
The Bird Can't Fly
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2008
Uncross the Stars
Hilda
2008
Love Comes Lately
Rosalie
2007
The Entity Files
Self
2005
Riding the Bullet
Jean Parker
2004
The Mountain
Gennie Carver · (13 episodes)
2004
Paradise
Elizabeth Paradise
2004
11:14
Norma
2003
The Stranger Beside Me
Ann Rule
2003
Hunger Point
Marsha Hunter
2003
Daniel Deronda
(4 episodes)
2002
The Nature of Lantana
Self
2002
V Graham Norton
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2002
Lantana
Valerie Somers
2001
The Sinister Saga of Making The Stunt Man
2000
Drowning on Dry Land
Kate
1999
Passion
Rose Grainger
1999
Breakfast of Champions
Celia Hoover
1999
Outer Space
(archive footage) (uncredited)
1999
A Soldier's Daughter Never Cries
Marcella Willis
1998
Frogs for Snakes
Eva Santana
1998
The Staircase
Mother Madalyn
1998
Portrait: Jane Campion and The Portrait of a Lady
Self
1997
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Madame Serena Merle
1996
The Pallbearer
Ruth Abernathy
1996
Last of the Dogmen
Prof. Lillian Diane Sloan
1995
Chicago Hope
Francesca Alberghetti · (22 episodes)
1994
Abraham
Sarah · (2 episodes)
1994
Abraham
Sara
1993
Return to Lonesome Dove
Clara Allen · (4 episodes)
1993
A Dangerous Woman
Frances
1993
The X-Files
Erika Price · (3 episodes)
1993
Splitting Heirs
Duchess Lucinda
1993
Swing Kids
Frau Müller
1993
Falling Down
Beth
1993
The Public Eye
Kay Levitz
1992
Stay the Night
Jimmie Sue Finger
1992
Defenseless
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1991
Paris Trout
Hanna Trout
1991
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Aunt Julia
1990
Martin Scorsese Directs
Self
1990
A Killing in a Small Town
Candy Morrison
1990
Agatha Christie's Poirot
Caroline Hubbard · (1 episode)
1989
Beaches
Hillary Whitney Essex
1988
Mickey's 60th Birthday
Self
1988
A World Apart
Diana Roth
1988
The Last Temptation of Christ
Mary Magdalene
1988
Shy People
Ruth
1987
Tin Men
Nora Tilley
1987
Passion Flower
Julia Gaitland
1987
Hoosiers
Myra Fleener
1986
Hannah and Her Sisters
Lee
1986
Anne of Green Gables
Older Anne Shirley · (0 episode)
1985
The New Alfred Hitchcock Presents
Jessie Dean · (1 episode)
1985
My Wicked, Wicked Ways: The Legend of Errol Flynn
Lili Damita
1985
The Natural
Harriet Bird
1984
The Right Stuff
Glennis Yeager
1983
The Nightingale
The Maid
1983
The Entity
Carla Moran
1982
Faerie Tale Theatre
The Maid · (1 episode)
1982
Working
Call Girl
1982
Americana
Jess's Daughter
1981
Take This Job and Shove It
Jane Margaret ("J.M.") Halstead
1981
The Stunt Man
Nina Franklin
1980
Angel on My Shoulder
Julie
1980
From Here to Eternity
Karen Holmes · (12 episodes)
1980
A Man Called Intrepid
Madelaine · (3 episodes)
1979
A Man Called Intrepid
Madelaine
1979
Sunshine Christmas
Cody Blanks
1977
Just a Little Inconvenience
Nikki Klausing
1977
Flood!
Mary Cutler
1977
In the Glitter Palace
Ellen Lange
1977
The Last Hard Men
Susan Burgade
1976
Trial by Combat
Marion Evans
1976
Diamonds
Sally
1975
You and Me
Waitress
1975
The Crazy World of Julius Vrooder
Zanni (as Barbara Seagull)
1974
Love Comes Quietly
Angela
1973
Kung Fu
(2 episodes)
1972
Boxcar Bertha
Boxcar Bertha
1972
Dealing: Or the Berkeley-to-Boston Forty-Brick Lost-Bag Blues
Susan
1972
The Pursuit of Happiness
Jane Kauffman
1971
The Baby Maker
Tish Gray
1970
The Liberation of L.B. Jones
Nella Mundine
1970
Last Summer
Sandy
1969
Heaven with a Gun
Leloopa
1969
With Six You Get Eggroll
Stacy Iverson
1968
Eugene the Marine
Frances
The Dick Cavett Show
Self - Guest · (1 episode)
1968
The High Chaparral
Moonfire · (1 episode)
1967
The Invaders
Beth Ferguson · (1 episode)
1967
The Monroes
Kathy Monroe · (26 episodes)
1966
Gidget
(2 episodes)
1965
Run for Your Life
Saro-Jane · (1 episode)
1965
Daniel Boone
Dinah Hubbard · (1 episode)
1964
Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre
(1 episode)
1963
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
Self · (1 episode)
1962
The Oscars
Self · (1 episode)
1953