Barbara Hershey

Personal Info

Birthday

February 5, 1948

(77 years old)

Place of Birth

Hollywood, California, USA

Also Known As

바바라 허쉬

Barbara Lynn Herzstein

باربارا هرشی

Barbara Hershey

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).

Known For

Agatha Christie's Poirot

The X-Files

Once Upon a Time

Daniel Boone

The New Alfred Hitchcock Presents

The Invaders

Chicago Hope

Run for Your Life

Filmography

2024
Strange Darling
as Genevieve
2022
9 Bullets
as Lacey
2021
The Manor
as Judith
2020
The Happy Days of Garry Marshall
as Self
2018
Insidious: The Last Key
as Lorraine Lambert
2016
The 9th Life of Louis Drax
as Violet Drax
2015
Childless
as Natalie
2014
Sister
as Connie
2013
Insidious: Chapter 2
as Lorraine Lambert
2012
Left to Die
as Sandra Chase
2011
Answers to Nothing
as Marilyn
Insidious
as Lorraine Lambert
2010
Black Swan
as Erica Sayers / The Queen
Albert Schweitzer - Anatomie eines Heiligen
as Helene Schweitzer
2009
Albert Schweitzer
as Helene Schweitzer
2008
Anne of Green Gables: A New Beginning
as Older Anne Shirley
The Bird Can't Fly
as Melody
Uncross the Stars
as Hilda
2007
Love Comes Lately
as Rosalie
2005
The Entity Files
as Self
2004
Riding the Bullet
as Jean Parker
Paradise
as Elizabeth Paradise
2003
11:14
as Norma
The Stranger Beside Me
as Ann Rule
Hunger Point
as Marsha Hunter
2002
The Nature of Lantana
as Self
2001
Lantana
as Valerie Somers
1999
Drowning on Dry Land
as Kate
Passion
as Rose Grainger
Breakfast of Champions
as Celia Hoover
Outer Space
as (archive footage) (uncredited)
1998
A Soldier's Daughter Never Cries
as Marcella Willis
Frogs for Snakes
as Eva Santana
The Staircase
as Mother Madalyn
1997
Portrait: Jane Campion and The Portrait of a Lady
as Self
1996
The Portrait of a Lady
as Madame Serena Merle
The Pallbearer
as Ruth Abernathy
1995
Last of the Dogmen
as Prof. Lillian Diane Sloan
1993
Abraham
as Sara
A Dangerous Woman
as Frances
Splitting Heirs
as Duchess Lucinda
Swing Kids
as Frau Müller
Falling Down
as Beth
1992
The Public Eye
as Kay Levitz
Stay the Night
as Jimmie Sue Finger
1991
Defenseless
as Thelma 'T.K.' Knudsen Katwuller
Paris Trout
as Hanna Trout
1990
Tune in Tomorrow...
as Aunt Julia
Martin Scorsese Directs
as Self
A Killing in a Small Town
as Candy Morrison
1988
Beaches
as Hillary Whitney Essex
Mickey's 60th Birthday
as Self
A World Apart
as Diana Roth
The Last Temptation of Christ
as Mary Magdalene
1987
Shy People
as Ruth
Tin Men
as Nora Tilley
Passion Flower
as Julia Gaitland
1986
Hoosiers
as Myra Fleener
Hannah and Her Sisters
as Lee
1985
My Wicked, Wicked Ways: The Legend of Errol Flynn
as Lili Damita
1984
The Natural
as Harriet Bird
1983
The Right Stuff
as Glennis Yeager
The Nightingale
as The Maid
1982
The Entity
as Carla Moran
Working
as Call Girl
1981
Americana
as Jess's Daughter
Take This Job and Shove It
as Jane Margaret ("J.M.") Halstead
1980
The Stunt Man
as Nina Franklin
Angel on My Shoulder
as Julie
1977
Sunshine Christmas
as Cody Blanks
Just a Little Inconvenience
as Nikki Klausing
Flood!
as Mary Cutler
In the Glitter Palace
as Ellen Lange
1976
The Last Hard Men
as Susan Burgade
Trial by Combat
as Marion Evans
1975
Diamonds
as Sally
You and Me
as Waitress
1974
The Crazy World of Julius Vrooder
as Zanni (as Barbara Seagull)
1973
Angela - Love Comes Quietly
as Angela
1972
Boxcar Bertha
as Boxcar Bertha
Dealing: Or the Berkeley-to-Boston Forty-Brick Lost-Bag Blues
as Susan
1971
The Pursuit of Happiness
as Jane Kauffman
1970
The Baby Maker
as Tish Gray
The Liberation of L.B. Jones
as Nella Mundine
1969
Last Summer
as Sandy
Heaven with a Gun
as Leloopa
1968
With Six You Get Eggroll
as Stacy Iverson