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Barbara Hershey

Born 1948 · American actress

Barbara Lynn Herzstein, better known as Barbara Hershey, 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, horrors, and comedies. She began acting at age 17 in 1965, but did not achieve widespread critical acclaim until the 1980s. By that time, the Chicago Tribune referred to her as "one of America's finest actresses".

Barbara Hershey, in order

  1. 1968 With Six You Get Eggroll: acted · directed by Howard Morris
  2. 1969 Heaven with a Gun: acted · directed by Lee H. Katzin · audiences 62%
  3. 1969 Last Summer: acted · directed by Frank Perry
  4. 1970 The Baby Maker: acted · directed by James Bridges
  5. 1970 The Crazy World of Julius Vrooder: acted · directed by Arthur Hiller
  6. 1970 The Liberation of L.B. Jones: acted · directed by William Wyler
  7. 1971 The Pursuit of Happiness: acted · directed by Robert Mulligan
  8. 1972 Boxcar Bertha: acted · directed by Martin Scorsese · critics 59%, audiences 33% · streaming on fuboTV, MGM+, Philo
  9. 1972 Dealing: Or the Berkeley-to-Boston Forty-Brick Lost-Bag Blues: acted · directed by Paul Williams
  10. 1973 Love Comes Quietly: acted · directed by Nikolai van der Heyde
  11. 1975 Diamonds: acted · directed by Menahem Golan
  12. 1975 You and Me: acted · directed by David Carradine
  13. 1976 The Last Hard Men: acted · directed by Andrew V. McLaglen
  14. 1976 Trial by Combat: acted · directed by Kevin Connor
  15. 1980 The Stunt Man: acted · directed by Richard Rush
  16. 1981 Take This Job and Shove It: acted · directed by Gus Trikonis
  17. 1981 The Entity: acted · directed by Sidney J. Furie
  18. 1983 Americana: acted · directed by David Carradine
  19. 1983 The Right Stuff: acted · directed by Philip Kaufman · critics 96%, audiences 90%
  20. 1984 The Natural: acted · directed by Barry Levinson · critics 82%, audiences 88%
  21. 1986 Hannah and Her Sisters: acted · directed by Woody Allen · critics 91%, audiences 90% · streaming on Prime Video, Roku Channel, Hoopla
  22. 1986 Hoosiers: acted · directed by David Anspaugh
  23. 1987 Shy People: acted · directed by Andrei Konchalovsky
  24. 1987 Tin Men: acted · directed by Barry Levinson · critics 82%, audiences 64% · streaming on Hoopla
  25. 1988 A World Apart: acted · directed by Chris Menges
  26. 1988 Beaches: acted · directed by Garry Marshall
  27. 1988 The Last Temptation of Christ: acted · directed by Martin Scorsese · critics 82%, audiences 84%
  28. 1990 Tune in Tomorrow: acted · directed by Jon Amiel
  29. 1991 Defenseless: acted · directed by Martin Campbell · audiences 37% · streaming on Prime Video, Roku Channel, Fandango at Home (free)
  30. 1991 Paris Trout: acted · directed by Stephen Gyllenhaal
  31. 1992 Stay the Night (TV movie): acted · directed by Harry Winer
  32. 1992 The Public Eye: acted · directed by Howard Franklin · critics 65%, audiences 50%
  33. 1993 A Dangerous Woman: acted · directed by Stephen Gyllenhaal
  34. 1993 Abraham (TV movie): acted · directed by Joseph Sargent
  35. 1993 Falling Down: acted · directed by Joel Schumacher · critics 75%, audiences 84% · streaming on YouTube (free)
  36. 1993 Splitting Heirs: acted · directed by Robert Young
  37. 1993 Swing Kids: acted · directed by Thomas Carter
  38. 1995 Last of the Dogmen: acted · directed by Tab Murphy
  39. 1996 The Pallbearer: acted · directed by Matt Reeves
  40. 1996 The Portrait of a Lady: acted · directed by Jane Campion · critics 48%, audiences 51%
  41. 1998 A Soldier's Daughter Never Cries: acted · directed by James Ivory
  42. 1998 Frogs for Snakes: acted · directed by Amos Poe
  43. 1998 The Staircase (TV movie): acted · directed by Karen Arthur
  44. 1999 Breakfast of Champions: acted · directed by Alan Rudolph · critics 27%, audiences 32% · streaming on Prime Video, Roku Channel, Shout! Factory TV
  45. 1999 Passion: acted · directed by Peter Duncan · critics 37%, audiences 25%
  46. 2001 Lantana: acted · directed by Ray Lawrence
  47. 2002 Daniel Deronda (TV series): acted · directed by Tom Hooper
  48. 2003 11:14: acted · directed by Greg Marcks
  49. 2004 Paradise (TV movie): acted · directed by Frank Pierson
  50. 2004 Riding the Bullet: acted · directed by Mick Garris
  51. 2004 The Mountain (TV series): acted
  52. 2007 Love Comes Lately: acted · directed by Jan Schütte
  53. 2007 The Bird Can’t Fly: acted · directed by Threes Anna
  54. 2008 Childless: acted
  55. 2008 Uncross the Stars: acted · directed by Kenny Golde
  56. 2009 Albert Schweitzer: acted · directed by Gavin Millar
  57. 2010 Black Swan: acted · directed by Darren Aronofsky · critics 85%, audiences 84%
  58. 2010 Insidious: acted · directed by James Wan
  59. 2011 Answers to Nothing: acted · directed by Matthew Leutwyler
  60. 2011 Once Upon a Time (TV series): acted · critics 78%, audiences 78% · streaming on Hulu
  61. 2012 Left to Die (TV movie): acted · directed by León Ichaso
  62. 2013 Insidious: Chapter 2: acted · directed by James Wan
  63. 2013 Once Upon a Time in Wonderland (TV series): acted · directed by Ralph Hemecker
  64. 2015 The 9th Life of Louis Drax: acted · directed by Alexandre Aja
  65. 2016 Damien (TV series): acted
  66. 2018 Insidious: The Last Key: acted · directed by Adam Robitel
  67. 2018 The X-Files (TV series): acted · directed by Rob Bowman
  68. 2021 The Manor: acted · directed by Axelle Carolyn
  69. 2022 9 Bullets: acted · directed by Gigi Gaston
  70. 2023 Strange Darling: acted · directed by JT Mollner