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Barbara Hershey, born Barbara Lynn Herzstein on February 5, 1948, in Hollywood, is a United States citizen and actress. She began her professional work period in 1965 and has been active as a film and television actor. Hershey attended Hollywood High School and speaks English. Her notable roles include Mary Magdalene and Sarah.
She has received several major accolades, including the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie, the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Miniseries or Television Film, and the Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actress. Hershey was also nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. She has one child and has had unmarried partnerships with David Carradine and Naveen Andrews.
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- Animal Friendship Calendar 2022
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Acting · Hollywood, California, USA
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…
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- Woodstockers — Rebecca2026
- Krung Thep — The Woman2026
- Legacy of Screams: The Evolution of Horror Movies — Self - (archive footage)2025
- Strange Darling — Genevieve2024
- Beacon 23 — Sophie2023
- 9 Bullets — Lacey2022
- The Manor — Judith2021
- The Happy Days of Garry Marshall — Self2020
- Paradise Lost — Byrd Forsythe2020
- Insidious: The Last Key — Lorraine Lambert2018
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- Radiotherapy plus Concomitant and Adjuvant Temozolomide for Glioblastoma
· 2005 · cited 18,721x
- International Physical Activity Questionnaire: 12-Country Reliability and Validity
· 2003 · cited 17,592x
- Transcript assembly and quantification by RNA-Seq reveals unannotated transcripts and isoform switching during cell differentiation
· 2010 · cited 13,971x
- Mapping and quantifying mammalian transcriptomes by RNA-Seq
· 2008 · cited 11,971x
- The role of positive emotions in positive psychology: The broaden-and-build theory of positive emotions.
· 2001 · cited 10,675x
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Encyclopedic overview
Barbara Lynn Herzstein, better known as Barbara Hershey (born 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, 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".
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).
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