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Barbara Hershey

Barbara Hershey

Birthday: 1948-02-05 | Place of Birth: 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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Known For

Acting

Year
Title

Role

2022
9 Bullets

as    Lacey

2021
The Manor

as    Judith

2020
Paradise Lost

as    Byrd Forsythe

2016
Damien

as    Ann Rutledge

2016
The 9th Life of Louis Drax

as    Violet Drax

2014
Sister

as    Connie

2013
Insidious: Chapter 2

as    Lorraine Lambert

2012
Left to Die

as    Sandra Chase

2011
Insidious

as    Lorraine Lambert

2011
Answers to Nothing

as    Marilyn

2010
Murder on the Orient Express

as    Caroline Hubbard

2010
Black Swan

as    Erica Sayers / The Queen

2009
Albert Schweitzer

as    Helene Schweitzer

2008
Uncross The Stars

as    Hilda

2008
Anne of Green Gables: A New Beginning

as    Older Anne Shirley

2007
Love Comes Lately

as    Rosalie

2004
The Mountain

as    Gennie Carver

2004
Riding the Bullet

as    Jean Parker

2003
11:14

as    Norma

2002
Lantana

as    Valerie Somers

1999
Outer Space

as    (archive footage) (uncredited)

1999
Breakfast of Champions

as    Celia Hoover

1999
Passion

as    Rose Grainger

1998
Frogs for Snakes

as    Eva Santana

1998
A Soldier's Daughter Never Cries

as    Marcella Willis

1996
The Portrait of a Lady

as    Madame Serena Merle

1995
Last of the Dogmen

as    Prof. Lillian Diane Sloan

1994
Chicago Hope

as    Francesca Alberghetti