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.
97 movies · 31 shows
Krung Thep
2026·10.0
Woodstockers
2026·0.0
Legacy of Screams: The Evolution of Horror Movies
2025·0.0
Strange Darling
2024·6.9
9 Bullets
2022·5.3
The Manor
2021·5.5
The Happy Days of Garry Marshall
2020·8.0
Once Upon a Time: And They Lived Happily Ever After
2018·0.0
Insidious: The Last Key
2018·6.3
The 9th Life of Louis Drax
2016·6.4
The Natural: The Best There Ever Was
2016·0.0
Damien: Behind the Scenes
2016·0.0
Childless
2015·4.5
Sister
2014·5.3
Insidious: Chapter 2
2013·6.7
Left to Die
2012·4.8
Answers to Nothing
2011·3.8
Insidious
2011·6.9
Black Swan
2010·7.7
Albert Schweitzer - Anatomie eines Heiligen
2010·0.0
Albert Schweitzer
2009·6.0
Anne of Green Gables: A New Beginning
2008·6.0
The Bird Can't Fly
2008·7.0
Uncross the Stars
2008·5.1
Love Comes Lately
2007·5.2
The Entity Files
2005·7.0
Riding the Bullet
2004·5.1
11:14
2004·6.8
Paradise
2004·4.1
Experiments in Terror
2003·5.0
Realizing The Right Stuff
2003·9.0
The Stranger Beside Me
2003·6.0
Hunger Point
2003·4.3
The Nature of Lantana
2002·8.0
Lantana
2001·6.7
The Sinister Saga of Making The Stunt Man
2000·7.8
Drowning on Dry Land
1999·4.7
Outer Space
1999·6.5
Passion
1999·4.0
Breakfast of Champions
1999·5.0
A Soldier's Daughter Never Cries
1998·6.1
Frogs for Snakes
1998·3.4
The Staircase
1998·7.7
Portrait: Jane Campion and The Portrait of a Lady
1997·7.5
The Portrait of a Lady
1996·6.0
The Pallbearer
1996·5.0
Last of the Dogmen
1995·6.8
Abraham
1993·7.1
A Dangerous Woman
1993·5.5
Splitting Heirs
1993·5.2
Swing Kids
1993·6.7
Falling Down
1993·7.4
The Public Eye
1992·6.2
Stay the Night
1992·4.0
Defenseless
1991·4.9
Paris Trout
1991·5.5
Tune in Tomorrow...
1990·5.5
Martin Scorsese Directs
1990·9.0
A Killing in a Small Town
1990·5.1
Beaches
1988·6.7
Mickey's 60th Birthday
1988·6.8
A World Apart
1988·6.4
The Last Temptation of Christ
1988·7.2
Shy People
1987·6.3
Tin Men
1987·6.3
Passion Flower
1987·4.3
Hoosiers
1986·7.0
Hannah and Her Sisters
1986·7.5
My Wicked, Wicked Ways: The Legend of Errol Flynn
1985·6.5
The Natural
1984·6.9
The Right Stuff
1983·7.4
The Nightingale
1983·5.3
Twilight Theater II
1982·0.0
The Entity
1982·6.8
Working
1982·4.8
Americana
1981·5.2
Take This Job and Shove It
1981·5.4
The Stunt Man
1980·6.6
Angel on My Shoulder
1980·6.6
Sunshine Christmas
1977·8.0
Just a Little Inconvenience
1977·0.0
Flood!
1977·5.1
In the Glitter Palace
1977·4.0
The Last Hard Men
1976·6.1
Trial by Combat
1976·7.8
Diamonds
1975·5.3
You and Me
1975·7.3
The Crazy World of Julius Vrooder
1974·5.6
Angela – Love Comes Quietly
1973·5.4
Boxcar Bertha
1972·5.8
Dealing: Or the Berkeley-to-Boston Forty-Brick Lost-Bag Blues
1972·5.3
The Pursuit of Happiness
1971·6.2
The Baby Maker
1970·6.2
The Liberation of L.B. Jones
1970·6.0
Last Summer
1969·6.1
Heaven with a Gun
1969·5.5
With Six You Get Eggroll
1968·6.4