“One week I was strong, the next, weak”
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Barbara Hershey
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…
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entertainment · American actress (born 1948) · actor · television actor · film actor · also Barbara Hershey, Barbara Seagull, Hershey
Born 5 February 1948 · Q229042
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2026· 1 entry
2015· 1 entry
Once more reprised the role when she returned to the show for an episode of its fourth season, and in 2016, she appeared again for two episodes of the show's fifth season, most notably its landmark 100th episode
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2014· 1 entry
Reprised the role in one episode of the show's spin-off Once Upon a Time in Wonderland
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2010· 1 entry
Hershey co-starred in Darren Aronofsky's acclaimed psychological thriller Black Swan (2010) opposite Natalie Portman and Mila Kunis
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2008· 1 entry
Replaced Megan Follows in the role of Anne Shirley in Anne of Green Gables: A New Beginning, the fourth in a series of made-for-TV films based on the character
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2005· 1 entry
Andrews fathered a child with another woman
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2002· 1 entry
Appeared in a two-scene cameo role as the Contessa in the mini-series Daniel Deronda
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2001· 1 entry
Hershey appeared in the psychological thriller Lantana
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1999· 1 entry
Hershey starred in an independent film called Drowning on Dry Land; during production, she met co-star Naveen Andrews, with whom she began a romantic relationship that lasted until 2010
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1995· 1 entry
Last of the Dogmen, co-starring Tom Berenger, was released through Savoy Pictures
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1993· 1 entry
Succeeding Anjelica Huston as Clara Allen in the sequel series Return to Lonesome Dove
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1992· 2 entries
Hershey married artist Stephen Douglas
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Hershey appeared with Jane Alexander in the ABC miniseries Stay the Night (1992), prompting Associated Press writer Jerry Buck to write, "Barbara Hershey is a person who jumps back and forth between features and televisi
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1991· 1 entry
Hershey played Hanna Trout, the wife of the title character in Paris Trout (1991), a made-for-cable television movie
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1990· 6 entries
Awarded Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie for A Killing in a Small Town (1990).
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Won Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Miniseries or Television Film for A Killing in a Small Town (1990).
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Was described by columnist Luaina Lee as a "private person who was mired in some heavy publicity when she first became a professional actress
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Hershey drew upon what Woody Allen once described as her "erotic overtones", portraying a woman who falls in love with her much younger nephew by marriage, played by Keanu Reeves, in the comedic Tune in Tomorrow
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Later in her career, she reportedly began to keep her personal life private
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Hershey won an Emmy and a Golden Globe for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Miniseries or Special for her role as Candy Morrison in A Killing in a Small Town, which was based on Candy Montgomery's acquittal for the death of
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1988· 1 entry
Awarded Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actress for A World Apart (1988).
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1987· 1 entry
Awarded Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actress for Shy People (1987).
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1986· 1 entry
Hershey left her native California and moved to Manhattan with her son
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1979· 1 entry
A blunt newspaper article from the Knight News Service referenced this period of her life, saying of her acting career that "it looked as if she blew it
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1974· 2 entries
Did just that, winning a gold medal at the Atlanta Film Festival for her role in the Dutch-produced film Love Comes Quietly
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Guest-starred in a two-part episode of Carradine's television series Kung Fu
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1972· 3 entries
Hershey gave birth to their son, Free, who changed his name to Tom when he was nine years old in 1982
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“was the most fun I ever had on a movie.”
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The couple posed together in a nude Playboy spread, recreating some sex scenes from Boxcar Bertha
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1970· 1 entry
Hershey played Tish Grey in The Baby Maker, a film that explored surrogate motherhood
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1968· 2 entries
Hershey met David Carradine while they were working on Heaven with a Gun
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Hershey worked in the 1969 Glenn Ford Western Heaven with a Gun
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1966· 1 entry
But David Carradine, in his autobiography, said she dropped out of high school after she began acting
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1965· 2 entries
But did not achieve widespread critical acclaim until the 1980s
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At age 17, she landed a role on Sally Field's television series Gidget
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1948· 1 entry
Born 1948-02-05.
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