Barbara Hershey - Actor Profile

Barbara Hershey

50Movies
9.0 Best Rating

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.

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Complete Filmography & Verdicts

YearMovieCharacterRatingVerdict
2024 Strange Darling Genevieve ★ 6.9 HIT
2020 The Happy Days of Garry Marshall Self ★ 7.7 HIT
2018 Insidious: The Last Key Lorraine Lambert ★ 6.3 FLOP
2016 The 9th Life of Louis Drax Violet Drax ★ 6.4 FLOP
2013 Insidious: Chapter 2 Lorraine Lambert ★ 6.7 HIT
2011 Insidious Lorraine Lambert ★ 6.9 HIT
2010 Black Swan Erica Sayers / The Queen ★ 7.7 HIT
2009 Albert Schweitzer Helene Schweitzer ★ 6.0 FLOP
2008 Anne of Green Gables: A New Beginning Older Anne Shirley ★ 5.7 FLOP
2008 The Bird Can't Fly Melody ★ 7.0 HIT
2003 11:14 Norma ★ 6.8 HIT
2003 The Stranger Beside Me Ann Rule ★ 5.9 FLOP
2002 The Nature of Lantana Self ★ 8.0 HIT
2001 Lantana Valerie Somers ★ 6.7 HIT
2000 The Sinister Saga of Making The Stunt Man - ★ 7.0 HIT
1999 Outer Space (archive footage) (uncredited) ★ 6.4 FLOP
1998 A Soldier's Daughter Never Cries Marcella Willis ★ 6.1 FLOP
1998 The Staircase Mother Madalyn ★ 7.4 HIT
1997 Portrait: Jane Campion and The Portrait of a Lady Self ★ 7.5 HIT
1996 The Portrait of a Lady Madame Serena Merle ★ 6.0 FLOP
1995 Last of the Dogmen Prof. Lillian Diane Sloan ★ 6.7 HIT
1993 Abraham Sara ★ 6.9 HIT
1993 A Dangerous Woman Frances ★ 5.5 FLOP
1993 Swing Kids Frau Müller ★ 6.7 HIT
1993 Falling Down Beth ★ 7.4 HIT
1992 The Public Eye Kay Levitz ★ 6.2 FLOP
1990 Martin Scorsese Directs Self ★ 9.0 HIT
1988 Beaches Hillary Whitney Essex ★ 6.7 HIT
1988 Mickey's 60th Birthday Self ★ 6.6 HIT
1988 A World Apart Diana Roth ★ 6.3 FLOP
1988 The Last Temptation of Christ Mary Magdalene ★ 7.2 HIT
1987 Shy People Ruth ★ 6.3 FLOP
1987 Tin Men Nora Tilley ★ 6.3 FLOP
1986 Hoosiers Myra Fleener ★ 7.0 HIT
1986 Hannah and Her Sisters Lee ★ 7.5 HIT
1985 My Wicked, Wicked Ways: The Legend of Errol Flynn Lili Damita ★ 6.5 HIT
1984 The Natural Harriet Bird ★ 6.9 HIT
1983 The Right Stuff Glennis Yeager ★ 7.4 HIT
1982 The Entity Carla Moran ★ 6.7 HIT
1980 The Stunt Man Nina Franklin ★ 6.6 HIT
1980 Angel on My Shoulder Julie ★ 6.0 FLOP
1976 The Last Hard Men Susan Burgade ★ 6.1 FLOP
1976 Trial by Combat Marion Evans ★ 7.7 HIT
1975 You and Me Waitress ★ 6.7 HIT
1972 Boxcar Bertha Boxcar Bertha ★ 5.8 FLOP
1971 The Pursuit of Happiness Jane Kauffman ★ 5.8 FLOP
1970 The Baby Maker Tish Gray ★ 5.7 FLOP
1970 The Liberation of L.B. Jones Nella Mundine ★ 5.8 FLOP
1969 Last Summer Sandy ★ 6.2 FLOP
1968 With Six You Get Eggroll Stacy Iverson ★ 6.3 FLOP