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Barbara Hershey
Barbara Hershey’s screen credits include Erica Sayers / The Queen in Black Swan, Lorraine Lambert in Insidious, and Lorraine Lambert in Insidious: Chapter 2.
Born February 5, 1948 Hollywood, California, USA3 movies on MoviHero
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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. …
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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).
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- 2026As Far Back As I Can Remember... The Story of GoodfellasSelf (archive footage)
- 2026Krung ThepThe Woman
- 2026WoodstockersRebecca
- 2025Legacy of Screams: The Evolution of Horror MoviesSelf (archive footage)
- 2024Strange DarlingGenevieve
- 20229 BulletsLacey
- 2021The ManorJudith
- 2020The Happy Days of Garry MarshallSelf
- 2018Once Upon a Time: And They Lived Happily Ever AfterSelf
- 2018Insidious: The Last KeyLorraine Lambert
- 2016The 9th Life of Louis DraxViolet Drax
- 2016The Natural: The Best There Ever WasSelf
- 2016Damien: Behind the ScenesSelf
- 2015ChildlessNatalie
- 2014SisterConnie
- 2012Left to DieSandra Chase
- 2011Answers to NothingMarilyn
- 2010Albert Schweitzer - Anatomie eines HeiligenHelene Schweitzer
- 2009Albert SchweitzerHelene Schweitzer
- 2008Anne of Green Gables: A New BeginningOlder Anne Shirley
- 2008The Bird Can't FlyMelody
- 2008Nick Nolte: No ExitSelf
- 2008Uncross the StarsHilda
- 2007Love Comes LatelyRosalie
- 2005The Entity FilesSelf
- 2004Riding the BulletJean Parker
- 200411:14Norma
- 2004ParadiseElizabeth Paradise
- 2003Experiments in TerrorActor
- 2003Realizing The Right StuffSelf
- 2003The Stranger Beside MeAnn Rule
- 2003Hunger PointMarsha Hunter
- 2002The Nature of LantanaSelf
- 2001LantanaValerie Somers
- 2000The Sinister Saga of Making The Stunt ManActor
- 1999Drowning on Dry LandKate
- 1999Outer Space(archive footage) (uncredited)
- 1999PassionRose Grainger
- 1999Breakfast of ChampionsCelia Hoover
- 1998A Soldier's Daughter Never CriesMarcella Willis
- 1998Frogs for SnakesEva Santana
- 1998The StaircaseMother Madalyn
- 1997Portrait: Jane Campion and The Portrait of a LadySelf
- 1996The Portrait of a LadyMadame Serena Merle
- 1996The PallbearerRuth Abernathy
- 1995Last of the DogmenProf. Lillian Diane Sloan
- 1993AbrahamSara
- 1993A Dangerous WomanFrances
- 1993Splitting HeirsDuchess Lucinda
- 1993Swing KidsFrau Müller
- 1993Falling DownBeth
- 1992The Public EyeKay Levitz
- 1992Stay the NightJimmie Sue Finger
- 1991DefenselessThelma 'T.K.' Knudsen Katwuller
- 1991Paris TroutHanna Trout
- 1990Tune in Tomorrow...Aunt Julia
- 1990Martin Scorsese DirectsSelf
- 1990A Killing in a Small TownCandy Morrison
- 1988BeachesHillary Whitney Essex
- 1988Mickey's 60th BirthdaySelf
- 1988A World ApartDiana Roth
- 1988The Last Temptation of ChristMary Magdalene
- 1987Shy PeopleRuth
- 1987Tin MenNora Tilley
- 1987Passion FlowerJulia Gaitland
- 1986HoosiersMyra Fleener
- 1986Hannah and Her SistersLee
- 1985My Wicked, Wicked Ways: The Legend of Errol FlynnLili Damita
- 1984The NaturalHarriet Bird
- 1983The Right StuffGlennis Yeager
- 1983The NightingaleThe Maid
- 1982Twilight Theater IISelf- Guest
- 1982The EntityCarla Moran
- 1982WorkingCall Girl
- 1981AmericanaJess's Daughter
- 1981Take This Job and Shove ItJane Margaret ("J.M.") Halstead
- 1980The Stunt ManNina Franklin
- 1980Angel on My ShoulderJulie
- 1977Sunshine ChristmasCody Blanks
- 1977Just a Little InconvenienceNikki Klausing
- 1977Flood!Mary Cutler
- 1977In the Glitter PalaceEllen Lange
- 1976The Last Hard MenSusan Burgade
- 1976Trial by CombatMarion Evans
- 1975DiamondsSally
- 1975You and MeWaitress
- 1974The Crazy World of Julius VrooderZanni (as Barbara Seagull)
- 1973Angela – Love Comes QuietlyAngela
- 1972Boxcar BerthaBoxcar Bertha
- 1972Dealing: Or the Berkeley-to-Boston Forty-Brick Lost-Bag BluesSusan
- 1971The Pursuit of HappinessJane Kauffman
- 1970The Baby MakerTish Gray
- 1970The Liberation of L.B. JonesNella Mundine
- The Last SederActor
- 1969Last SummerSandy
- 1969Heaven with a GunLeloopa
- 1968With Six You Get EggrollStacy Iverson
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