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). 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

The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson

The X-Files

Agatha Christie's Poirot

Once Upon a Time

Chicago Hope

Daniel Boone

Run for Your Life

The Dick Cavett Show

All Movies (97)

• Krung Thep2026 · as The Woman
• Woodstockers2026 · as Rebecca
• Legacy of Screams: The Evolution of Horror Movies2025 · as Self - (archive footage)
• Strange Darling2024 · as Genevieve
• 9 Bullets2022 · as Lacey
• The Manor2021 · as Judith
• The Happy Days of Garry Marshall2020 · as Self
• Once Upon a Time: And They Lived Happily Ever After2018 · as Self
• Insidious: The Last Key2018 · as Lorraine Lambert
• The 9th Life of Louis Drax2016 · as Violet Drax
• The Natural: The Best There Ever Was2016 · as Self
• Damien: Behind the Scenes2016 · as Self
• Childless2015 · as Natalie
• Sister2014 · as Connie
• Insidious: Chapter 22013 · as Lorraine Lambert
• Left to Die2012 · as Sandra Chase
• Answers to Nothing2011 · as Marilyn
• Insidious2011 · as Lorraine Lambert
• Black Swan2010 · as Erica Sayers / The Queen
• Albert Schweitzer - Anatomie eines Heiligen2010 · as Helene Schweitzer
• Albert Schweitzer2009 · as Helene Schweitzer
• Anne of Green Gables: A New Beginning2008 · as Older Anne Shirley
• The Bird Can't Fly2008 · as Melody
• Uncross the Stars2008 · as Hilda
• Love Comes Lately2007 · as Rosalie
• The Entity Files2005 · as Self
• Riding the Bullet2004 · as Jean Parker
• 11:142004 · as Norma
• Paradise2004 · as Elizabeth Paradise
• Experiments in Terror2003
• Realizing The Right Stuff2003 · as Self
• The Stranger Beside Me2003 · as Ann Rule
• Hunger Point2003 · as Marsha Hunter
• The Nature of Lantana2002 · as Self
• Lantana2001 · as Valerie Somers
• The Sinister Saga of Making The Stunt Man2000
• Drowning on Dry Land1999 · as Kate
• Outer Space1999 · as (archive footage) (uncredited)
• Passion1999 · as Rose Grainger
• Breakfast of Champions1999 · as Celia Hoover
• A Soldier's Daughter Never Cries1998 · as Marcella Willis
• Frogs for Snakes1998 · as Eva Santana
• The Staircase1998 · as Mother Madalyn
• Portrait: Jane Campion and The Portrait of a Lady1997 · as Self
• The Portrait of a Lady1996 · as Madame Serena Merle
• The Pallbearer1996 · as Ruth Abernathy
• Last of the Dogmen1995 · as Prof. Lillian Diane Sloan
• Abraham1993 · as Sara
• A Dangerous Woman1993 · as Frances
• Splitting Heirs1993 · as Duchess Lucinda
• Swing Kids1993 · as Frau Müller
• Falling Down1993 · as Beth
• The Public Eye1992 · as Kay Levitz
• Stay the Night1992 · as Jimmie Sue Finger
• Defenseless1991 · as Thelma 'T.K.' Knudsen Katwuller
• Paris Trout1991 · as Hanna Trout
• Tune in Tomorrow...1990 · as Aunt Julia
• Martin Scorsese Directs1990 · as Self
• A Killing in a Small Town1990 · as Candy Morrison
• Beaches1988 · as Hillary Whitney Essex
• Mickey's 60th Birthday1988 · as Self
• A World Apart1988 · as Diana Roth
• The Last Temptation of Christ1988 · as Mary Magdalene
• Shy People1987 · as Ruth
• Tin Men1987 · as Nora Tilley
• Passion Flower1987 · as Julia Gaitland
• Hoosiers1986 · as Myra Fleener
• Hannah and Her Sisters1986 · as Lee
• My Wicked, Wicked Ways: The Legend of Errol Flynn1985 · as Lili Damita
• The Natural1984 · as Harriet Bird
• The Right Stuff1983 · as Glennis Yeager
• The Nightingale1983 · as The Maid
• Twilight Theater II1982 · as Self- Guest
• The Entity1982 · as Carla Moran
• Working1982 · as Call Girl
• Americana1981 · as Jess's Daughter
• Take This Job and Shove It1981 · as Jane Margaret ("J.M.") Halstead
• The Stunt Man1980 · as Nina Franklin
• Angel on My Shoulder1980 · as Julie
• Sunshine Christmas1977 · as Cody Blanks
• Just a Little Inconvenience1977 · as Nikki Klausing
• Flood!1977 · as Mary Cutler
• In the Glitter Palace1977 · as Ellen Lange
• The Last Hard Men1976 · as Susan Burgade
• Trial by Combat1976 · as Marion Evans
• Diamonds1975 · as Sally
• You and Me1975 · as Waitress
• The Crazy World of Julius Vrooder1974 · as Zanni (as Barbara Seagull)
• Angela – Love Comes Quietly1973 · as Angela
• Boxcar Bertha1972 · as Boxcar Bertha
• Dealing: Or the Berkeley-to-Boston Forty-Brick Lost-Bag Blues1972 · as Susan
• The Pursuit of Happiness1971 · as Jane Kauffman
• The Baby Maker1970 · as Tish Gray
• The Liberation of L.B. Jones1970 · as Nella Mundine
• Last Summer1969 · as Sandy
• Heaven with a Gun1969 · as Leloopa
• With Six You Get Eggroll1968 · as Stacy Iverson

All TV Shows (30)

• Beacon 232023 · as Sophie
• Paradise Lost2020 · as Byrd Forsythe
• Damien2016 · as Ann Rutledge
• Once Upon a Time in Wonderland2013 · as Cora Mills
• Once Upon a Time2011 · as Cora / Queen of Hearts
• The Mountain2004 · as Gennie Carver
• Daniel Deronda2002 · as Contessa Maria Alcharisi
• V Graham Norton2002 · as Self
• Chicago Hope1994 · as Francesca Alberghetti
• Abraham1994 · as Sarah
• Return to Lonesome Dove1993 · as Clara Allen
• The X-Files1993 · as Erika Price
• Agatha Christie's Poirot1989 · as Caroline Hubbard
• Anne of Green Gables1985 · as Older Anne Shirley
• The New Alfred Hitchcock Presents1985 · as Jessie Dean
• Faerie Tale Theatre1982 · as The Maid
• From Here to Eternity1980 · as Karen Holmes
• A Man Called Intrepid1979 · as Madelaine
• Kung Fu1972 · as Nan Chi
• The Dick Cavett Show1968 · as Self - Guest
• The High Chaparral1967 · as Moonfire
• The Invaders1967 · as Beth Ferguson
• CBS Playhouse1966 · as Claire Gray
• The Monroes1966 · as Kathy Monroe
• Gidget1965
• Run for Your Life1965 · as Saro-Jane
• Daniel Boone1964 · as Dinah Hubbard
• Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre1963
• The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson1962 · as Self
• The Oscars1953 · as Self