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