Barbara Hershey profile
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Barbara Hershey

5th February 1948 Hollywood, California, USA Acting

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.

95 Movies 30 TV Shows 125 Credits
Filmography

Movies & TV Shows

Black Swan poster
Black Swan 3rd December 2010 as Erica Sayers / The Queen
11:14 poster
11:14 20th August 2004 as Norma
Paradise poster
Paradise 1st January 2004 as Elizabeth Paradise
Lantana poster
Lantana 4th October 2001 as Valerie Somers
Outer Space poster
Outer Space 24th September 1999 as (archive footage) (uncredited)
Passion poster
Passion 1st July 1999 as Rose Grainger
Defenseless poster
Defenseless 23rd August 1991 as Thelma 'T.K.' Knudsen Katwuller
Beaches poster
Beaches 21st December 1988 as Hillary Whitney Essex
Hoosiers poster
Hoosiers 14th November 1986 as Myra Fleener
Flood! poster
Flood! 5th June 1977 as Mary Cutler
Damien poster
Damien 7th March 2016 as Ann Rutledge