
Barbara Hershey
Acting
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Acting Credits
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 Outstandin...
Known For
Filmography

Woodstockers
2026
as Rebecca

Eugene the Marine
2025
as Frances

Legacy of Screams: The Evolution of Horror Movies
2025
as Self - (archive footage)

Strange Darling
2024
as Genevieve

Beacon 23
2023
as Sophie

9 Bullets
2022
as Lacey

The Manor
2021
as Judith

The Happy Days of Garry Marshall
2020
as Self

Paradise Lost
2020
as Byrd Forsythe

Insidious: The Last Key
2018
as Lorraine Lambert

The 9th Life of Louis Drax
2016
as Violet Drax

The Natural: The Best There Ever Was
2016
as Self

Damien: Behind the Scenes
2016
as Self

Damien
2016
as Ann Rutledge

Childless
2015
as Natalie

Sister
2014
as Connie

Insidious: Chapter 2
2013
as Lorraine Lambert

Once Upon a Time in Wonderland
2013
as Cora Mills

Left to Die
2012
as Sandra Chase

Insidious
2011
as Lorraine Lambert
Answers to Nothing
2011
as Marilyn

Once Upon a Time
2011
as Cora / Queen of Hearts

Black Swan
2010
as Erica Sayers / The Queen

Albert Schweitzer - Anatomie eines Heiligen
2010
as Helene Schweitzer

Albert Schweitzer
2009
as Helene Schweitzer

Uncross the Stars
2008
as Hilda

Anne of Green Gables: A New Beginning
2008
as Older Anne Shirley

The Bird Can't Fly
2008
as Melody

Love Comes Lately
2007
as Rosalie

The Entity Files
2005
as Self

11:14
2004
as Norma

Riding the Bullet
2004
as Jean Parker

Paradise
2004
as Elizabeth Paradise

The Mountain
2004
as Gennie Carver

Hunger Point
2003
as Marsha Hunter

The Stranger Beside Me
2003
as Ann Rule

Experiments in Terror
2003

Realizing The Right Stuff
2003
as Self

The Nature of Lantana
2002
as Self

V Graham Norton
2002
as Self

Daniel Deronda
2002

Lantana
2001
as Valerie Somers

The Sinister Saga of Making The Stunt Man
2000

Breakfast of Champions
1999
as Celia Hoover

Passion
1999
as Rose Grainger

Drowning on Dry Land
1999
as Kate

Outer Space
1999
as (archive footage) (uncredited)

A Soldier's Daughter Never Cries
1998
as Marcella Willis

Frogs for Snakes
1998
as Eva Santana

The Staircase
1998
as Mother Madalyn

Portrait: Jane Campion and The Portrait of a Lady
1997
as Self

The Pallbearer
1996
as Ruth Abernathy

The Portrait of a Lady
1996
as Madame Serena Merle

Last of the Dogmen
1995
as Prof. Lillian Diane Sloan

Abraham
1994
as Sarah

Chicago Hope
1994
as Francesca Alberghetti

Abraham
1993
as Sara

Swing Kids
1993
as Frau Müller

Splitting Heirs
1993
as Duchess Lucinda

Falling Down
1993
as Beth

A Dangerous Woman
1993
as Frances

Return to Lonesome Dove
1993
as Clara Allen

The X-Files
1993
as Erika Price

The Public Eye
1992
as Kay Levitz

Stay the Night
1992
as Jimmie Sue Finger

Defenseless
1991
as Thelma 'T.K.' Knudsen Katwuller

Paris Trout
1991
as Hanna Trout

Tune in Tomorrow...
1990
as Aunt Julia

A Killing in a Small Town
1990
as Candy Morrison

Martin Scorsese Directs
1990
as Self

Agatha Christie's Poirot
1989
as Caroline Hubbard

The Last Temptation of Christ
1988
as Mary Magdalene

A World Apart
1988
as Diana Roth

Beaches
1988
as Hillary Whitney Essex

Mickey's 60th Birthday
1988
as Self

Tin Men
1987
as Nora Tilley

Shy People
1987
as Ruth

Passion Flower
1987
as Julia Gaitland

Hannah and Her Sisters
1986
as Lee

Hoosiers
1986
as Myra Fleener

My Wicked, Wicked Ways: The Legend of Errol Flynn
1985
as Lili Damita

The New Alfred Hitchcock Presents
1985
as Jessie Dean

Anne of Green Gables
1985
as Older Anne Shirley

The Natural
1984
as Harriet Bird

The Right Stuff
1983
as Glennis Yeager

The Nightingale
1983
as The Maid

The Entity
1982
as Carla Moran

Working
1982
as Call Girl

Faerie Tale Theatre
1982
as The Maid

Take This Job and Shove It
1981
as Jane Margaret ("J.M.") Halstead

Americana
1981
as Jess's Daughter

The Stunt Man
1980
as Nina Franklin

Angel on My Shoulder
1980
as Julie
From Here to Eternity
1980
as Karen Holmes

A Man Called Intrepid
1979
as Madelaine

Flood!
1977
as Mary Cutler
Just a Little Inconvenience
1977
as Nikki Klausing

Sunshine Christmas
1977
as Cody Blanks

In the Glitter Palace
1977
as Ellen Lange

The Last Hard Men
1976
as Susan Burgade

Trial by Combat
1976
as Marion Evans

Diamonds
1975
as Sally

You and Me
1975
as Waitress

The Crazy World of Julius Vrooder
1974
as Zanni (as Barbara Seagull)

Angela - Love Comes Quietly
1973
as Angela

Boxcar Bertha
1972
as Boxcar Bertha

Dealing: Or the Berkeley-to-Boston Forty-Brick Lost-Bag Blues
1972
as Susan

Kung Fu
1972
as Nan Chi

The Pursuit of Happiness
1971
as Jane Kauffman

The Baby Maker
1970
as Tish Gray

The Liberation of L.B. Jones
1970
as Nella Mundine

Heaven with a Gun
1969
as Leloopa

Last Summer
1969
as Sandy

With Six You Get Eggroll
1968
as Stacy Iverson

The Dick Cavett Show
1968
as Self - Guest

The High Chaparral
1967
as Moonfire

The Invaders
1967
as Beth Ferguson

The Monroes
1966
as Kathy Monroe

Gidget
1965

Run for Your Life
1965
as Saro-Jane

Daniel Boone
1964
as Dinah Hubbard
Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre
1963

The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
1962
as Self

The Oscars
1953
as Self