Barbara Hershey
Acting
- Born:
- 1948-02-05
- Place of birth:
- Hollywood, California, USA
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
Filmography
As Far Back As I Can Remember... The Story of Goodfellas
Krung Thep
Woodstockers
Legacy of Screams: The Evolution of Horror Movies
Strange Darling
Beacon 23
9 Bullets
The Manor
The Happy Days of Garry Marshall
Paradise Lost
Once Upon a Time: And They Lived Happily Ever After
Insidious: The Last Key
The 9th Life of Louis Drax
The Natural: The Best There Ever Was
Damien: Behind the Scenes
Damien
Childless
Sister
Once Upon a Time in Wonderland
Insidious: Chapter 2
Left to Die
Once Upon a Time
Answers to Nothing
Insidious
Black Swan
Albert Schweitzer - Anatomie eines Heiligen
Albert Schweitzer
Anne of Green Gables: A New Beginning
The Bird Can't Fly
Uncross the Stars
Nick Nolte: No Exit
Love Comes Lately
The Entity Files
Riding the Bullet
The Mountain
11:14
Paradise
Experiments in Terror
Realizing The Right Stuff
The Stranger Beside Me
Hunger Point
Daniel Deronda
The Nature of Lantana
V Graham Norton
Lantana
The Sinister Saga of Making The Stunt Man
Drowning on Dry Land
Outer Space
Passion
Breakfast of Champions
A Soldier's Daughter Never Cries
Frogs for Snakes
The Staircase
Portrait: Jane Campion and The Portrait of a Lady
The Portrait of a Lady
The Pallbearer
Last of the Dogmen
Chicago Hope
Abraham
Abraham
Return to Lonesome Dove
A Dangerous Woman
The X-Files
Splitting Heirs
Swing Kids
Falling Down
The Public Eye
Stay the Night
Defenseless
Paris Trout
Tune in Tomorrow...
Martin Scorsese Directs
A Killing in a Small Town
Agatha Christie's Poirot
Beaches
Mickey's 60th Birthday
A World Apart
The Last Temptation of Christ
Shy People
Tin Men
Passion Flower
Hoosiers
Hannah and Her Sisters
Anne of Green Gables
The New Alfred Hitchcock Presents
My Wicked, Wicked Ways: The Legend of Errol Flynn
The Natural
The Right Stuff
The Nightingale
Twilight Theater II
The Entity
Faerie Tale Theatre
Working
American Playhouse
Americana
Take This Job and Shove It
The Stunt Man
Angel on My Shoulder
From Here to Eternity
A Man Called Intrepid
Sunshine Christmas
Just a Little Inconvenience
Flood!
In the Glitter Palace
The Last Hard Men
Trial by Combat
Diamonds
You and Me
The Crazy World of Julius Vrooder
Angela – Love Comes Quietly
Kung Fu
Boxcar Bertha
Dealing: Or the Berkeley-to-Boston Forty-Brick Lost-Bag Blues
The Pursuit of Happiness
The Baby Maker
The Liberation of L.B. Jones
Last Summer
Heaven with a Gun
With Six You Get Eggroll
The Dick Cavett Show
The High Chaparral
The Invaders
CBS Playhouse
The Monroes
Gidget
Run for Your Life
Daniel Boone
Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
The Oscars
The Last Seder