Barbara Hershey
Known for Acting · 125 credits
- Born
- 1948-02-05 (age 78)
- Place of birth
- Hollywood, California, USA
- Also known as
- 바바라 허쉬 · Barbara Lynn Herzstein · باربارا هرشی
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).
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Known For
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
1962
as Self
The X-Files
1993
as Erika Price
Agatha Christie's Poirot
1989
as Caroline Hubbard
Once Upon a Time
2011
as Cora / Queen of Hearts
Chicago Hope
1994
as Francesca Alberghetti
Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre
1963
TV Shows (30)
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
1962
as Self
The X-Files
1993
as Erika Price
Agatha Christie's Poirot
1989
as Caroline Hubbard
Once Upon a Time
2011
as Cora / Queen of Hearts
Chicago Hope
1994
as Francesca Alberghetti
Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre
1963
The Dick Cavett Show
1968
as Self - Guest
Daniel Boone
1964
as Dinah Hubbard
The New Alfred Hitchcock Presents
1985
as Jessie Dean
Run for Your Life
1965
as Saro-Jane
The Invaders
1967
as Beth Ferguson
The High Chaparral
1967
as Moonfire
The Oscars
1953
as Self
Faerie Tale Theatre
1982
as The Maid
V Graham Norton
2002
as Self
Gidget
1965
CBS Playhouse
1966
as Claire Gray
Beacon 23
2023
as Sophie
Once Upon a Time in Wonderland
2013
as Cora Mills
The Monroes
1966
as Kathy Monroe
Damien
2016
as Ann Rutledge
The Mountain
2004
as Gennie Carver
Return to Lonesome Dove
1993
as Clara Allen
Paradise Lost
2020
as Byrd Forsythe
Anne of Green Gables
1985
as Older Anne Shirley
Daniel Deronda
2002
as Contessa Maria Alcharisi
From Here to Eternity
1980
as Karen Holmes
Abraham
1994
as Sarah
Kung Fu
1972
as Nan Chi
A Man Called Intrepid
1979
as Madelaine
Movies (95)
Insidious
2011
as Lorraine Lambert
Black Swan
2010
as Erica Sayers / The Queen
Falling Down
1993
as Beth
Insidious: Chapter 2
2013
as Lorraine Lambert
Strange Darling
2024
as Genevieve
Insidious: The Last Key
2018
as Lorraine Lambert
The Entity
1982
as Carla Moran
The Last Temptation of Christ
1988
as Mary Magdalene
The Right Stuff
1983
as Glennis Yeager
The Natural
1984
as Harriet Bird
11:14
2004
as Norma
Hannah and Her Sisters
1986
as Lee
Swing Kids
1993
as Frau Müller
The Portrait of a Lady
1996
as Madame Serena Merle
Beaches
1988
as Hillary Whitney Essex
9 Bullets
2022
as Lacey
Hoosiers
1986
as Myra Fleener
Tin Men
1987
as Nora Tilley
Sister
2014
as Connie
The 9th Life of Louis Drax
2016
as Violet Drax
The Manor
2021
as Judith
The Happy Days of Garry Marshall
2020
as Self
Boxcar Bertha
1972
as Boxcar Bertha
The Stunt Man
1980
as Nina Franklin
The Stranger Beside Me
2003
as Ann Rule
The Pallbearer
1996
as Ruth Abernathy
Breakfast of Champions
1999
as Celia Hoover
Lantana
2001
as Valerie Somers
Paris Trout
1991
as Hanna Trout
Last of the Dogmen
1995
as Prof. Lillian Diane Sloan
The Public Eye
1992
as Kay Levitz
A World Apart
1988
as Diana Roth
Heaven with a Gun
1969
as Leloopa
Dealing: Or the Berkeley-to-Boston Forty-Brick Lost-Bag Blues
1972
as Susan
Mickey's 60th Birthday
1988
as Self
Abraham
1993
as Sara
A Dangerous Woman
1993
as Frances
Last Summer
1969
as Sandy
Riding the Bullet
2004
as Jean Parker
A Killing in a Small Town
1990
as Candy Morrison
The Liberation of L.B. Jones
1970
as Nella Mundine
The Last Hard Men
1976
as Susan Burgade
Anne of Green Gables: A New Beginning
2008
as Older Anne Shirley
Martin Scorsese Directs
1990
as Self
Flood!
1977
as Mary Cutler
Take This Job and Shove It
1981
as Jane Margaret ("J.M.") Halstead
The Nightingale
1983
as The Maid
With Six You Get Eggroll
1968
as Stacy Iverson
Shy People
1987
as Ruth
Portrait: Jane Campion and The Portrait of a Lady
1997
as Self
Splitting Heirs
1993
as Duchess Lucinda
My Wicked, Wicked Ways: The Legend of Errol Flynn
1985
as Lili Damita
Passion Flower
1987
as Julia Gaitland
You and Me
1975
as Waitress
The Crazy World of Julius Vrooder
1974
as Zanni (as Barbara Seagull)
Sunshine Christmas
1977
as Cody Blanks
Frogs for Snakes
1998
as Eva Santana
Defenseless
1991
as Thelma 'T.K.' Knudsen Katwuller
Paradise
2004
as Elizabeth Paradise
Albert Schweitzer
2009
as Helene Schweitzer
The Pursuit of Happiness
1971
as Jane Kauffman
Left to Die
2012
as Sandra Chase
Woodstockers
2026
as Rebecca
Angela - Love Comes Quietly
1973
as Angela
Tune in Tomorrow...
1990
as Aunt Julia
Trial by Combat
1976
as Marion Evans
In the Glitter Palace
1977
as Ellen Lange
Legacy of Screams: The Evolution of Horror Movies
2025
as Self - (archive footage)
A Soldier's Daughter Never Cries
1998
as Marcella Willis
Just a Little Inconvenience
1977
as Nikki Klausing
Stay the Night
1992
as Jimmie Sue Finger
Hunger Point
2003
as Marsha Hunter
Drowning on Dry Land
1999
as Kate
Albert Schweitzer - Anatomie eines Heiligen
2010
as Helene Schweitzer
Angel on My Shoulder
1980
as Julie
Passion
1999
as Rose Grainger
The Nature of Lantana
2002
as Self
Diamonds
1975
as Sally
Childless
2015
as Natalie
Love Comes Lately
2007
as Rosalie
Americana
1981
as Jess's Daughter
Working
1982
as Call Girl
The Baby Maker
1970
as Tish Gray
The Sinister Saga of Making The Stunt Man
2000
Answers to Nothing
2011
as Marilyn
Uncross the Stars
2008
as Hilda
The Bird Can't Fly
2008
as Melody
The Staircase
1998
as Mother Madalyn
Realizing The Right Stuff
2003
as Self
Outer Space
1999
as (archive footage) (uncredited)
The Natural: The Best There Ever Was
2016
as Self
Krung Thep
2026
as The Woman
Damien: Behind the Scenes
2016
as Self
Experiments in Terror
2003
The Entity Files
2005
as Self
About Barbara Hershey
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 rol… With 125 credits spanning from 1953 to 2026, Barbara Hershey has appeared in 95 films and 30 TV shows.
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- Insidious (2011) — as Lorraine Lambert
- Black Swan (2010) — as Erica Sayers / The Queen
- Falling Down (1993) — as Beth
- Insidious: Chapter 2 (2013) — as Lorraine Lambert
- Strange Darling (2024) — as Genevieve
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