Barbara Hershey

Personal Info

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Acting

Gender

Female

Birthday

1948-02-05 (77 years old)

Place of Birth

Hollywood, California, USA

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 Act...

Acting

1969

1993

Abraham

as Sara

1993

Swing Kids

as Frau Müller

1987

Tin Men

as Nora Tilley

1993

Splitting Heirs

as Duchess Lucinda

1988

1972

Boxcar Bertha

as Boxcar Bertha

1986

Hoosiers

as Myra Fleener

1995

Last of the Dogmen

as Prof. Lillian Diane Sloan

1984

The Natural

as Harriet Bird

1996

The Pallbearer

as Ruth Abernathy

1982

The Entity

as Carla Moran

1992

The Public Eye

as Kay Levitz

2001

Lantana

as Valerie Somers

2003

11:14

as Norma

1983

The Right Stuff

as Glennis Yeager

1999

Breakfast of Champions

as Celia Hoover

2004

Riding the Bullet

as Jean Parker

1980

The Stunt Man

as Nina Franklin

1991

Defenseless

as Thelma 'T.K.' Knudsen Katwuller

1981

Take This Job and Shove It

as Jane Margaret ("J.M.") Halstead

1990

Tune in Tomorrow...

as Aunt Julia

1988

A World Apart

as Diana Roth

1996

The Portrait of a Lady

as Madame Serena Merle

2008

1993

1988

Beaches

as Hillary Whitney Essex

2008

1969

Last Summer

as Sandy

2010

Black Swan

as Erica Sayers / The Queen

1976

The Last Hard Men

as Susan Burgade

2009

Albert Schweitzer

as Helene Schweitzer

1968

With Six You Get Eggroll

as Stacy Iverson

2011

Insidious

as Lorraine Lambert

1987

Shy People

as Ruth

1991

Paris Trout

as Hanna Trout

2008

1998

2013

Insidious: Chapter 2

as Lorraine Lambert

2011

1998

Frogs for Snakes

as Eva Santana

1976

Trial by Combat

as Marion Evans

1990

A Killing in a Small Town

as Candy Morrison

1971

The Pursuit of Happiness

as Jane Kauffman

2007

1993

1975

Diamonds

as Sally

1998

The Staircase

as Mother Madalyn

1970

The Baby Maker

as Tish Gray

2012

Left to Die

as Sandra Chase

1977

Flood!

as Mary Cutler

1981

Americana

as Jess's Daughter

2003

Hunger Point

as Marsha Hunter

1987

Passion Flower

as Julia Gaitland

2014

Sister

as Connie

1977

1999

Passion

as Rose Grainger

1974

The Crazy World of Julius Vrooder

as Zanni (as Barbara Seagull)

1979

2024

Strange Darling

as Genevieve

2003

2015

Childless

as Natalie

1970

2016

1983

The Nightingale

as The Maid

1975

You and Me

as Waitress

1977

Sunshine Christmas

as Cody Blanks

1977

In the Glitter Palace

as Ellen Lange

2018

Insidious: The Last Key

as Lorraine Lambert

1973

1982

Working

as Call Girl

1992

Stay the Night

as Jimmie Sue Finger

2004

Paradise

as Elizabeth Paradise

1999

Outer Space

as (archive footage) (uncredited)

2021

The Manor

as Judith

2022

9 Bullets

as Lacey

2005

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