| Barbara Hershey  AKA Barbara Herzstein
Born: 5-Feb-1948
Birthplace: Hollywood, CA
Gender: Female
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Actor Nationality: United States
Executive summary: Boxcar Bertha and Mary Magdalene Born and raised in Hollywood, Hershey took drama classes at Hollywood High. At 17, she landed a recurring role on TV's Gidget, starring Sally Field. By the next season, she was in her own quickly-cancelled series, The Monroes, playing one of five orphans in the old west. Hershey's first starring role was as Martin Scorsese's Boxcar Bertha in 1972. During filming, she loaned Scorsese her copy of the novel, The Last Temptation of Christ. More than a decade later he directed a film adaptation of the book, with Hershey as Mary Magdalene. Instead of offering a pious Charlton Heston-esque presentation, the film portrayed Jesus as a man with human characteristics and weaknesses, making it fantastically controversial among Christian fundamentalists. Hershey was peppered with death threats for months after the movie was released.
In the mid-1970s, she called herself Barbara Seagull (in memory of a bird she accidentally ran over in her car), and was typecast as a hippie, stoner, or wacky chick. Her better-known films include Beaches with Bette Midler, The Natural with Robert Redford, Hoosiers with Gene Hackman, and Hannah and Her Sisters with Woody Allen. More recently, she has done fine work in a long list of quirky, interesting movies -- The Stunt Man, Shy People, A World Apart, Jane Campion's Portrait of a Lady, Lantana, and Merchant-Ivory's underappreciated A Soldier's Daughter Never Cries.
Father: (horseracing columnist)
Mother: (Irish)
Boyfriend: David Carradine (actor, together 1969-75, one son)
Son: Free Carradine ("Tom", b. 1972)
Husband: Stephen Douglas (painter, m. 8-Aug-1992, div. 1993)
Boyfriend: Naveen Andrews (actor, together 1998-2010)
High School: Hollywood High School, Hollywood, CA (1966)
Irish Ancestry Maternal
Russian Ancestry Paternal
Jewish Ancestry Paternal
TELEVISION
The Mountain Gennie Carver (2004-05)
The Monroes Kathy Monroe (1966-67)
FILMOGRAPHY AS ACTOR
Insidious: The Last Key (3-Jan-2018)
The 9th Life of Louis Drax (1-Sep-2016)
Insidious: Chapter 2 (13-Sep-2013)
Answers to Nothing (22-Sep-2011) · Marilyn
Insidious (14-Sep-2010) · Lorraine Lambert
Black Swan (1-Sep-2010) · Erica Sayers
Love Comes Lately (9-Sep-2007) · Rosalie
Riding the Bullet (15-Oct-2004) · Jean Parker
11:14 (16-May-2003)
Daniel Deronda (24-Nov-2002)
Lantana (8-Jun-2001) · Valerie
Breakfast of Champions (15-May-1999)
A Soldier's Daughter Never Cries (13-Sep-1998)
Frogs for Snakes (20-Feb-1998)
The Portrait of a Lady (18-Oct-1996)
The Pallbearer (3-May-1996) · Ruth Abernathy
Last of the Dogmen (8-Sep-1995) · Lillian Sloan
Abraham (3-Apr-1994)
Return to Lonesome Dove (14-Nov-1993)
A Dangerous Woman (10-Sep-1993) · Frances
Splitting Heirs (30-Apr-1993) · Duchess Lucinda
Swing Kids (5-Mar-1993)
Falling Down (26-Feb-1993)
The Public Eye (15-Sep-1992) · Kay Levitz
Defenseless (23-Aug-1991)
Paris Trout (20-Apr-1991)
Tune in Tomorrow... (15-Sep-1990) · Aunt Julia
A Killing in a Small Town (22-May-1990)
Beaches (21-Dec-1988) · Hillary Whitney Essex
The Last Temptation of Christ (12-Aug-1988) · Mary Magdalene
Shy People (17-Jun-1988)
A World Apart (17-Jun-1988)
Tin Men (6-Mar-1987) · Nora
Hoosiers (14-Nov-1986) · Myra Fleener
Hannah and Her Sisters (7-Feb-1986) · Lee
Passion Flower (1986)
The Natural (11-May-1984) · Harriet Bird
Americana (21-Oct-1983)
The Right Stuff (9-Sep-1983) · Glennis Yeager
The Entity (20-Oct-1982)
Take This Job and Shove It (24-Apr-1981) · J. M. Halstead
The Stunt Man (27-Jun-1980) · Nina Franklin
Angel on My Shoulder (11-May-1980)
A Man Called Intrepid (7-May-1979)
Flood! (24-Nov-1976)
The Last Hard Men (1-Jun-1976) · Susan Burgade
Trial by Combat (Apr-1976)
Diamonds (22-Oct-1975)
The Crazy World of Julius Vrooder (18-Oct-1974)
Boxcar Bertha (14-Jun-1972) · Boxcar Bertha
Dealing: Or the Berkeley-to-Boston Forty-Brick Lost-Bag Blues (25-Feb-1972)
The Pursuit of Happiness (23-Feb-1971)
The Baby Maker (1-Oct-1970)
The Liberation of L. B. Jones (18-Mar-1970)
Last Summer (10-Jun-1969) · Sandy
Heaven With a Gun (1969) · Leloopa
With Six You Get Eggroll (7-Aug-1968) · Stacey Iverson
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