Barbara Hershey

Acting · Born 1948-02-05 in Hollywood, California, USA

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,…

Filmography

• The Last Temptation of Christ as Mary Magdalene
• Hannah and Her Sisters as Lee
• Hoosiers as Myra Fleener
• The Right Stuff as Glennis Yeager
• Falling Down as Beth
• Black Swan as Erica Sayers / The Queen
• Insidious as Lorraine Lambert
• Heaven with a Gun as Leloopa
• Abraham as Sara
• Swing Kids as Frau Müller

TV

• Kung Fu as Nan Chi
• The X-Files as Erika Price
• Agatha Christie's Poirot as Caroline Hubbard
• Gidget
• The New Alfred Hitchcock Presents as Jessie Dean
• Faerie Tale Theatre as The Maid
• Return to Lonesome Dove as Clara Allen
• From Here to Eternity as Karen Holmes
• The Monroes as Kathy Monroe
• Run for Your Life as Saro-Jane