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.

Filmography

• 2026Krung Thep — The Woman
• 2026Woodstockers — Rebecca
• 2024Strange Darling — Genevieve
• Beacon 23 — Sophie
• 20229 Bullets — Lacey
• 2021The Manor — Judith
• Paradise Lost — Byrd Forsythe
• 2018Insidious: The Last Key — Lorraine Lambert
• Damien — Ann Rutledge
• 2016The 9th Life of Louis Drax — Violet Drax
• 2015Childless — Natalie
• 2014Sister — Connie
• 2013Insidious: Chapter 2 — Lorraine Lambert
• Once Upon a Time in Wonderland — Cora Mills
• 2012Left to Die — Sandra Chase
• 2011Answers to Nothing — Marilyn
• 2011Insidious — Lorraine Lambert
• Once Upon a Time — Cora / Queen of Hearts
• 2010Albert Schweitzer - Anatomie eines Heiligen — Helene Schweitzer
• 2010Black Swan — Erica Sayers / The Queen
• 2009Albert Schweitzer — Helene Schweitzer
• 2008Anne of Green Gables: A New Beginning — Older Anne Shirley
• 2008The Bird Can't Fly — Melody
• 2008Uncross the Stars — Hilda
• 2007Love Comes Lately — Rosalie
• 200411:14 — Norma
• 2004Paradise — Elizabeth Paradise
• 2004Riding the Bullet — Jean Parker
• The Mountain — Gennie Carver
• 2003Experiments in Terror
• 2003Hunger Point — Marsha Hunter
• 2003The Stranger Beside Me — Ann Rule
• Daniel Deronda — Contessa Maria Alcharisi
• 2001Lantana — Valerie Somers
• 2000The Sinister Saga of Making The Stunt Man
• 1999Breakfast of Champions — Celia Hoover
• 1999Drowning on Dry Land — Kate
• 1999Outer Space — (archive footage) (uncredited)
• 1999Passion — Rose Grainger
• 1998A Soldier's Daughter Never Cries — Marcella Willis
• 1998Frogs for Snakes — Eva Santana
• 1998The Staircase — Mother Madalyn
• 1996The Pallbearer — Ruth Abernathy
• 1996The Portrait of a Lady — Madame Serena Merle
• 1995Last of the Dogmen — Prof. Lillian Diane Sloan
• Chicago Hope — Francesca Alberghetti
• 1993A Dangerous Woman — Frances
• 1993Abraham — Sara
• Abraham — Sarah
• 1993Falling Down — Beth
• Return to Lonesome Dove — Clara Allen
• 1993Splitting Heirs — Duchess Lucinda
• 1993Swing Kids — Frau Müller
• The X-Files — Erika Price
• 1992Stay the Night — Jimmie Sue Finger
• 1992The Public Eye — Kay Levitz
• 1991Defenseless — Thelma 'T.K.' Knudsen Katwuller
• 1991Paris Trout — Hanna Trout
• 1990A Killing in a Small Town — Candy Morrison
• 1990Tune in Tomorrow... — Aunt Julia
• Agatha Christie's Poirot — Caroline Hubbard
• 1988A World Apart — Diana Roth
• 1988Beaches — Hillary Whitney Essex
• 1988The Last Temptation of Christ — Mary Magdalene
• 1987Passion Flower — Julia Gaitland
• 1987Shy People — Ruth
• 1987Tin Men — Nora Tilley
• 1986Hannah and Her Sisters — Lee
• 1986Hoosiers — Myra Fleener
• Anne of Green Gables — Older Anne Shirley
• 1985My Wicked, Wicked Ways: The Legend of Errol Flynn — Lili Damita
• The New Alfred Hitchcock Presents — Jessie Dean
• 1984The Natural — Harriet Bird
• 1983The Nightingale — The Maid
• 1983The Right Stuff — Glennis Yeager
• American Playhouse — Call Girl, Lenore
• Faerie Tale Theatre — The Maid
• 1982The Entity — Carla Moran
• 1982Working — Call Girl
• 1981Americana — Jess's Daughter
• 1981Take This Job and Shove It — Jane Margaret ("J.M.") Halstead
• 1980Angel on My Shoulder — Julie
• From Here to Eternity — Karen Holmes
• 1980The Stunt Man — Nina Franklin
• A Man Called Intrepid — Madelaine
• 1977Flood! — Mary Cutler
• 1977In the Glitter Palace — Ellen Lange
• 1977Just a Little Inconvenience — Nikki Klausing
• 1977Sunshine Christmas — Cody Blanks
• 1976The Last Hard Men — Susan Burgade
• 1976Trial by Combat — Marion Evans
• 1975Diamonds — Sally
• 1975You and Me — Waitress
• 1974The Crazy World of Julius Vrooder — Zanni (as Barbara Seagull)
• 1973Angela – Love Comes Quietly — Angela
• 1972Boxcar Bertha — Boxcar Bertha
• 1972Dealing: Or the Berkeley-to-Boston Forty-Brick Lost-Bag Blues — Susan
• Kung Fu — Nan Chi
• 1971The Pursuit of Happiness — Jane Kauffman
• 1970The Baby Maker — Tish Gray
• 1970The Liberation of L.B. Jones — Nella Mundine
• 1969Heaven with a Gun — Leloopa
• 1969Last Summer — Sandy
• 1968With Six You Get Eggroll — Stacy Iverson
• The High Chaparral — Moonfire
• The Invaders — Beth Ferguson
• CBS Playhouse — Claire Gray
• The Monroes — Kathy Monroe
• Gidget
• Run for Your Life — Saro-Jane
• Daniel Boone — Dinah Hubbard
• Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre
• The Last Seder

Appearances as themselves (18)

• 2026As Far Back As I Can Remember... The Story of Goodfellas — Self (archive footage)
• 2025Legacy of Screams: The Evolution of Horror Movies — Self (archive footage)
• 2020The Happy Days of Garry Marshall — Self
• 2018Once Upon a Time: And They Lived Happily Ever After — Self
• 2016Damien: Behind the Scenes — Self
• 2016The Natural: The Best There Ever Was — Self
• 2008Nick Nolte: No Exit — Self
• 2005The Entity Files — Self
• 2003Realizing The Right Stuff — Self
• 2002The Nature of Lantana — Self
• V Graham Norton — Self
• 1997Portrait: Jane Campion and The Portrait of a Lady — Self
• 1990Martin Scorsese Directs — Self
• 1988Mickey's 60th Birthday — Self
• 1982Twilight Theater II — Self- Guest
• The Dick Cavett Show — Self - Guest
• The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson — Self
• The Oscars — Self