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Barbara Hershey
Known for: ActingBarbara 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. 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). Description above from the Wikipedia article Barbara Hershey, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Chicago Hope
as Francesca Alberghetti 
Insidious: Chapter 2
as Lorraine Lambert 
Black Swan
as Erica Sayers / The Queen 
Insidious
as Lorraine Lambert 
Falling Down
as Beth 
Strange Darling
as Genevieve 
The Entity
as Carla Moran 
The Public Eye
as Kay Levitz 
The Right Stuff
as Glennis Yeager 
Hannah and Her Sisters
as Lee 
Beaches
as Hillary Whitney Essex 
Damien
as Ann Rutledge 
Paradise Lost
as Byrd Forsythe 
The Natural
as Harriet Bird 
The Last Temptation of Christ
as Mary Magdalene 
Return to Lonesome Dove
as Clara Allen 
The 9th Life of Louis Drax
as Violet Drax 
The Portrait of a Lady
as Madame Serena Merle 
11:14
as Norma 
Shy People
as Ruth 
Swing Kids
as Frau Müller 
Defenseless
as Thelma 'T.K.' Knudsen Katwuller 
Boxcar Bertha
as Boxcar Bertha 
Hoosiers
as Myra Fleener 
9 Bullets
as Lacey 
Abraham
as Sara 
The Manor
as Judith 
The Pallbearer
as Ruth Abernathy 
Riding the Bullet
as Jean Parker 
Abraham
as Sarah 
Last of the Dogmen
as Prof. Lillian Diane Sloan 
Anne of Green Gables: A New Beginning
as Older Anne Shirley 
Splitting Heirs
as Duchess Lucinda 
The Last Hard Men
as Susan Burgade 
Breakfast of Champions
as Celia Hoover 
The Stunt Man
as Nina Franklin 
Heaven with a Gun
as Leloopa 
Tin Men
as Nora Tilley 
With Six You Get Eggroll
as Stacy Iverson 
The Liberation of L.B. Jones
as Nella Mundine 
Trial by Combat
as Marion Evans 
The Stranger Beside Me
as Ann Rule 
A Dangerous Woman
as Frances 
A World Apart
as Diana Roth 
Paris Trout
as Hanna Trout 
Albert Schweitzer
as Helene Schweitzer 
Uncross the Stars
as Hilda 
The Pursuit of Happiness
as Jane Kauffman 
Lantana
as Valerie Somers 
Sister
as Connie 
Left to Die
as Sandra Chase 
In the Glitter Palace
as Ellen Lange 
The Bird Can't Fly
as Melody 
The Baby Maker
as Tish Gray 
Frogs for Snakes
as Eva Santana