Barbara Hershey

Actor Feb 5 (age 78) Hollywood, California, USA 1953–2026 (73 year career)

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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

Film

Black Swan

Erica Sayers / The Queen

Film

Insidious

Lorraine Lambert

Film

Falling Down

Beth

Film

Insidious: Chapter 2

Lorraine Lambert

Film

Hannah and Her Sisters

Lee

Film

The Last Temptation of Christ

Mary Magdalene

Film

The Right Stuff

Glennis Yeager

Film

Insidious: The Last Key

Lorraine Lambert

Filmography

Acting (124)

Movies (96)

Woodstockers

2026

as Rebecca

Legacy of Screams: The Evolution of Horror Movies

2025

as Self - (archive footage)

Eugene the Marine

2025

as Frances

Strange Darling

as Genevieve

9 Bullets

as Lacey

The Manor

as Judith

The Happy Days of Garry Marshall

2020

as Self

7.7

Insidious: The Last Key

2018

as Lorraine Lambert

6.3

The Natural: The Best There Ever Was

2016

as Self

The 9th Life of Louis Drax

2016

as Violet Drax

6.4

Damien: Behind the Scenes

2016

as Self

Childless

as Natalie

Sister

as Connie

Insidious: Chapter 2

as Lorraine Lambert

Left to Die

as Sandra Chase

Insidious

as Lorraine Lambert

Answers to Nothing

as Marilyn

Black Swan

as Erica Sayers / The Queen

7.7

Albert Schweitzer - Anatomie eines Heiligen

2010

as Helene Schweitzer

Poirot: Murder on the Orient Express

2010

as Caroline Hubbard

Albert Schweitzer

2009

as Helene Schweitzer

6.0

Anne of Green Gables: A New Beginning

2008

as Older Anne Shirley

The Bird Can't Fly

as Melody

Uncross the Stars

as Hilda

Love Comes Lately

as Rosalie

The Entity Files

as Self

Riding the Bullet

2004

as Jean Parker

5.1

Paradise

2004

as Elizabeth Paradise

11:14

as Norma

Hunger Point

as Marsha Hunter

The Stranger Beside Me

2003

as Ann Rule

6.0

Experiments in Terror

2003

1.0

Realizing The Right Stuff

2003

as Self

The Nature of Lantana

as Self

Lantana

as Valerie Somers

The Sinister Saga of Making The Stunt Man

Passion

as Rose Grainger

Breakfast of Champions

1999

as Celia Hoover

5.0

Outer Space

1999

as (archive footage) (uncredited)

Drowning on Dry Land

as Kate

The Staircase

as Mother Madalyn

Frogs for Snakes

as Eva Santana

A Soldier's Daughter Never Cries

1998

as Marcella Willis

6.1

Portrait: Jane Campion and The Portrait of a Lady

as Self

The Pallbearer

as Ruth Abernathy

The Portrait of a Lady

1996

as Madame Serena Merle

6.0

Last of the Dogmen

1995

as Prof. Lillian Diane Sloan

Falling Down

as Beth

Swing Kids

as Frau Müller

Abraham

as Sara

A Dangerous Woman

as Frances

Splitting Heirs

as Duchess Lucinda

The Public Eye

as Kay Levitz

Stay the Night

as Jimmie Sue Finger

Paris Trout

as Hanna Trout

Defenseless

as Thelma 'T.K.' Knudsen Katwuller

4.9

Tune in Tomorrow...

1990

as Aunt Julia

5.2

Martin Scorsese Directs

1990

as Self

9.0

A Killing in a Small Town

1990

as Candy Morrison

4.8

The Last Temptation of Christ

1988

as Mary Magdalene

7.2

Beaches

1988

as Hillary Whitney Essex

6.7

A World Apart

1988

as Diana Roth

6.3

Mickey's 60th Birthday

as Self

Tin Men

as Nora Tilley

Shy People

as Ruth

Passion Flower

as Julia Gaitland

Hoosiers

as Myra Fleener

Hannah and Her Sisters

1986

as Lee

7.5

My Wicked, Wicked Ways: The Legend of Errol Flynn

as Lili Damita

The Natural

as Harriet Bird

The Right Stuff

as Glennis Yeager

The Nightingale

as The Maid

The Entity

as Carla Moran

Working

as Call Girl

Take This Job and Shove It

1981

as Jane Margaret ("J.M.") Halstead

Americana

as Jess's Daughter

Angel on My Shoulder

as Julie

The Stunt Man

as Nina Franklin

Flood!

as Mary Cutler

Sunshine Christmas

as Cody Blanks

In the Glitter Palace

1977

as Ellen Lange

2.7

Just a Little Inconvenience

1977

as Nikki Klausing

The Last Hard Men

as Susan Burgade

Trial by Combat

as Marion Evans

Diamonds

as Sally

You and Me

as Waitress

The Crazy World of Julius Vrooder

1974

as Zanni (as Barbara Seagull)

5.2

Angela - Love Comes Quietly

as Angela

Boxcar Bertha

as Boxcar Bertha

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

1972

as Susan

4.8

The Pursuit of Happiness

1971

as Jane Kauffman

5.7

The Liberation of L.B. Jones

as Nella Mundine

The Baby Maker

as Tish Gray

Last Summer

as Sandy

Heaven with a Gun

as Leloopa

With Six You Get Eggroll

1968

as Stacy Iverson

6.3

Television (28)

Beacon 23

as Sophie

Paradise Lost

as Byrd Forsythe

Damien

as Ann Rutledge

Once Upon a Time in Wonderland

2013

as Cora Mills

6.9

Once Upon a Time

2011

as Cora / Queen of Hearts

The Mountain

as Gennie Carver

V Graham Norton

as Self

Daniel Deronda

Chicago Hope

as Francesca Alberghetti

Abraham

as Sarah

The X-Files

as Erika Price

Return to Lonesome Dove

1993

as Clara Allen

6.9

Agatha Christie's Poirot

1989

as Caroline Hubbard

8.2

The New Alfred Hitchcock Presents

as Jessie Dean

Faerie Tale Theatre

as The Maid

From Here to Eternity

1980

as Karen Holmes

2.3

A Man Called Intrepid

1979

as Madelaine

Kung Fu

as Nan Chi

The Dick Cavett Show

as Self - Guest

The Invaders

as Beth Ferguson

The High Chaparral

as Moonfire

The Monroes

as Kathy Monroe

Run for Your Life

as Saro-Jane

Gidget

Daniel Boone

as Dinah Hubbard

Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre

1963

5.7

The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson

as Self

The Oscars

as Self