Highest rated as cast or director
Barbara Hershey's 9 titles from the 1980s have a median Balasaur Score of 72, led by The Right Stuff (84) and Hannah and Her Sisters (83), against 67 for those from the 2000s.
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 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.
Acted in 109
2020s
- 2026
Woodstockers
Rebecca
- 2024
- 2023
- 2022
- 2021
- 2020
Paradise Lost
Byrd Forsythe · 10 episodes
2010s
- 2018
- 2016
- 2015
Childless
Natalie
- 2014
- 2013
- 2012
Left to Die
Sandra Chase
- 2011
Answers to Nothing
Marilyn
- 2010
Albert Schweitzer - Anatomie eines Heiligen
Helene Schweitzer
2000s
- 2009
Albert Schweitzer
Helene Schweitzer
- 2008
Anne of Green Gables: A New Beginning
Older Anne Shirley
- 2007
Love Comes Lately
Rosalie
- 2004
Paradise
Elizabeth Paradise
- 2003
Experiments in Terror
Movie
- 2002
- 2001
- 2000
The Sinister Saga of Making The Stunt Man
Movie
1990s
- 1999
Drowning on Dry Land
Kate
Outer Space
(archive footage) (uncredited)
Passion
Rose Grainger
- 1998
A Soldier's Daughter Never Cries
Marcella Willis
Frogs for Snakes
Eva Santana
The Staircase
Mother Madalyn
- 1996
- 1995
Last of the Dogmen
Prof. Lillian Diane Sloan
- 1994
- 1993
Abraham
Sara
Abraham
Sarah · 2 episodes
A Dangerous Woman
Frances
Splitting Heirs
Duchess Lucinda
- 1992
Stay the Night
Jimmie Sue Finger
- 1991
- 1990
Tune in Tomorrow...
Aunt Julia
A Killing in a Small Town
Candy Morrison
1980s
- 1989
- 1988
A World Apart
Diana Roth
- 1987
Passion Flower
Julia Gaitland
- 1986
- 1985
Anne of Green Gables
Older Anne Shirley
My Wicked, Wicked Ways: The Legend of Errol Flynn
Lili Damita
- 1984
- 1983
The Nightingale
The Maid
- 1982
Working
Call Girl
- 1981
Americana
Jess's Daughter
Take This Job and Shove It
Jane Margaret ("J.M.") Halstead
- 1980
Angel on My Shoulder
Julie
1970s
- 1979
A Man Called Intrepid
Madelaine · 3 episodes
- 1977
Sunshine Christmas
Cody Blanks
Just a Little Inconvenience
Nikki Klausing
Flood!
Mary Cutler
In the Glitter Palace
Ellen Lange
- 1976
- 1975
You and Me
Waitress
- 1974
The Crazy World of Julius Vrooder
Zanni (as Barbara Seagull)
- 1973
Angela – Love Comes Quietly
Angela
- 1972
Kung Fu
Nan Chi · 2 episodes
Dealing: Or the Berkeley-to-Boston Forty-Brick Lost-Bag Blues
Susan
- 1971
The Pursuit of Happiness
Jane Kauffman
- 1970
The Baby Maker
Tish Gray
1960s
- 1969
Last Summer
Sandy
Heaven with a Gun
Leloopa
- 1968
With Six You Get Eggroll
Stacy Iverson
- 1967
- 1966
- 1965
- 1964
Appearances18
2020s
- 2026
As Far Back As I Can Remember... The Story of Goodfellas
Self (archive footage)
- 2025
Legacy of Screams: The Evolution of Horror Movies
Self (archive footage)
- 2020
2010s
- 2018
Once Upon a Time: And They Lived Happily Ever After
Self
- 2016
The Natural: The Best There Ever Was
Self
Damien: Behind the Scenes
Self
2000s
- 2008
Nick Nolte: No Exit
Self
- 2005
The Entity Files
Self
- 2003
Realizing The Right Stuff
Self
- 2002
The Nature of Lantana
Self
1990s
- 1997
Portrait: Jane Campion and The Portrait of a Lady
Self
- 1990
Martin Scorsese Directs
Self
1980s
- 1988
- 1982
Twilight Theater II
Self- Guest
1960s
- 1968
- 1962
1950s
- 1953
