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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Recent movies
| # | Name | Character | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Strange Darling (2024) | Genevieve | 6.8 |
| 2 | 9 Bullets (2022) | Lacey | - |
| 3 | The Manor (2021) | Judith | 5.6 |
| 4 | Insidious: The Last Key (2018) | Lorraine Lambert | 6.1 |
| 5 | The 9th Life of Louis Drax (2016) | Violet Drax | 6.8 |
| 6 | Childless (2015) | Natalie | - |
| 7 | Insidious: Chapter 2 (2013) | Lorraine Lambert | 6.6 |
| 8 | Insidious (2011) | Lorraine Lambert | 6.9 |
| 9 | Black Swan (2010) Oscars 2011 | Erica Sayers / The Queen | 7.6 |
| 10 | Albert Schweitzer (2009) | Helene Schweitzer | - |
| 11 | Uncross the Stars (2008) | Hilda | 8 |
| 12 | Anne of Green Gables: A New Beginning (2008) | Older Anne Shirley | - |
| 13 | 11:14 (2004) | Norma | 7.3 |
| 14 | Riding the Bullet (2004) | Jean Parker | 6.1 |
| 15 | The Stranger Beside Me (2003) | Ann Rule | 7 |
| 16 | Lantana (2001) | Valerie Somers | 5.5 |
| 17 | Breakfast of Champions (1999) | Celia Hoover | - |
| 18 | Outer Space (1999) | (archive footage) (uncredited) | 8.5 |
| 19 | Drowning on Dry Land (1999) | Kate | - |
| 20 | The Staircase (1998) | Mother Madalyn | - |
| 21 | The Pallbearer (1996) | Ruth Abernathy | 2.5 |
| 22 | The Portrait of a Lady (1996) | Madame Serena Merle | 3.5 |
| 23 | Last of the Dogmen (1995) | Prof. Lillian Diane Sloan | - |
| 24 | Swing Kids (1993) | Frau Müller | 1 |
| 25 | A Dangerous Woman (1993) | Frances | 7 |
| 26 | Abraham (1993) | Sara | - |
| 27 | Falling Down (1993) | Beth | 7.6 |
| 28 | Splitting Heirs (1993) | Duchess Lucinda | 6 |
| 29 | The Public Eye (1992) | Kay Levitz | 6 |
| 30 | Paris Trout (1991) | Hanna Trout | 5 |
| 31 | Defenseless (1991) | Thelma 'T.K.' Knudsen Katwuller | - |
| 32 | A Killing in a Small Town (1990) | Candy Morrison | - |
| 33 | Tune in Tomorrow... (1990) | Aunt Julia | - |
| 34 | Beaches (1988) | Hillary Whitney Essex | 8.5 |
| 35 | The Last Temptation of Christ (1988) | Mary Magdalene | 6.6 |
| 36 | A World Apart (1988) | Diana Roth | 6 |
| 37 | Tin Men (1987) | Nora Tilley | 7 |
| 38 | Shy People (1987) | Ruth | 10 |
| 39 | Hannah and Her Sisters (1986) | Lee | 8.2 |
| 40 | Hoosiers (1986) | Myra Fleener | 7.7 |
| 41 | The Natural (1984) | Harriet Bird | 7.3 |
| 42 | The Right Stuff (1983) | Glennis Yeager | 7.4 |
| 43 | The Nightingale (1983) | The Maid | - |
| 44 | The Entity (1982) | Carla Moran | 6.8 |
| 45 | The Stunt Man (1980) | Nina Franklin | - |
| 46 | The Last Hard Men (1976) | Susan Burgade | - |
| 47 | Boxcar Bertha (1972) | Boxcar Bertha | 5.8 |
| 48 | Last Summer (1969) | Sandy | - |
