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Acting

Barbara Hershey

Career: Active from 1966 to 2026, busiest in 1993 with 7 main titles.

Leading roles: 65
top three billing

Average score: 60/100

Highest rated: The Right Stuff
86/100

What stands out

Compared with the average well-known movie, over 77 of their titles. Select a trait to filter titles.

Barbara Hershey Catalog average

Rarely in their work

Physical Comedy
1.3, average 2.4
Situational Comedy
1.8, average 2.7
Pop Culture
1.3, average 2.2
Contemporary Realism
4.5, average 5.4

Main genres

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Recurring tags

Psychological Thriller 8
Character Study 7
Character-Driven 7
Historical Drama 7
Supernatural Horror 5
Psychological Drama 4
Psychological Tension 4
Social Commentary 4
Coming-of-Age 4
Feel-Good 3
Contemporary Realism 3
Historical Setting 3

Works often with

People in at least two of their main titles.

Movies and TV shows

109

Type

Role

Score

Decade

Genre

Group by

2020s

7 titles · average score 54

Krung Thep

as The Woman

Woodstockers

as Rebecca

Strange Darling

79

as Genevieve

Beacon 23

54

TV show · as Sophie

9 Bullets

18

as Lacey

The Manor

54

as Judith

Paradise Lost

64

TV show · as Byrd Forsythe

2010s

13 titles · average score 56

Insidious: The Last Key

48

as Lorraine Lambert

Damien

48

TV show · as Ann Rutledge

The 9th Life of Louis Drax

48

as Violet Drax

Childless

as Natalie

Sister

65

as Connie

Insidious: Chapter 2

51

as Lorraine Lambert

Once Upon a Time in Wonderland

64

TV show · as Cora Mills

Left to Die

50

as Sandra Chase

Insidious

63

as Lorraine Lambert

Once Upon a Time

74

TV show · as Cora / Queen of Hearts

Answers to Nothing

25

as Marilyn

Black Swan

81

as Erica Sayers / The Queen

2000s

13 titles · average score 58

Albert Schweitzer

60

as Helene Schweitzer

Anne of Green Gables: A New Beginning

50

as Older Anne Shirley

Uncross the Stars

59

as Hilda

The Bird Can't Fly

61

as Melody

Love Comes Lately

61

as Rosalie

Riding the Bullet

38

as Jean Parker

11:14

74

as Norma

Paradise

as Elizabeth Paradise

The Stranger Beside Me

54

as Ann Rule

Hunger Point

47

as Marsha Hunter

Daniel Deronda

74

TV show · as Contessa Maria Alcharisi

Lantana

79

as Valerie Somers

1990s

25 titles · average score 59

Outer Space

68

as (archive footage) (uncredited)

The Portrait of a Lady

57

as Madame Serena Merle

Last of the Dogmen

70

as Prof. Lillian Diane Sloan

Falling Down

71

as Beth

Return to Lonesome Dove

71

TV show · as Clara Allen

Abraham

71

TV show · as Sarah

Splitting Heirs

53

as Duchess Lucinda

Abraham

71

as Sara

A Dangerous Woman

45

as Frances

The Public Eye

60

as Kay Levitz

Defenseless

47

as Thelma 'T.K.' Knudsen Katwuller

Tune in Tomorrow...

55

as Aunt Julia

1980s

23 titles · average score 70

Beaches

59

as Hillary Whitney Essex

The Last Temptation of Christ

79

as Mary Magdalene

Tin Men

72

as Nora Tilley

Shy People

65

as Ruth

Passion Flower

as Julia Gaitland

Hannah and Her Sisters

85

as Lee

Hoosiers

79

as Myra Fleener

The Natural

66

as Harriet Bird

The Right Stuff

86

as Glennis Yeager

The Entity

58

as Carla Moran

The Stunt Man

76

as Nina Franklin

From Here to Eternity

TV show · as Karen Holmes

1970s

17 titles · average score 58

A Man Called Intrepid

69

TV show · as Madelaine

Flood!

54

as Mary Cutler

Just a Little Inconvenience

as Nikki Klausing

The Last Hard Men

51

as Susan Burgade

Trial by Combat

65

as Marion Evans

Diamonds

54

as Sally

The Crazy World of Julius Vrooder

56

as Zanni (as Barbara Seagull)

Angela – Love Comes Quietly

as Angela

Boxcar Bertha

57

as Boxcar Bertha

Dealing: Or the Berkeley-to-Boston Forty-Brick Lost-Bag Blues

41

as Susan

The Pursuit of Happiness

51

as Jane Kauffman

The Baby Maker

59

as Tish Gray

1960s

11 titles · average score 62

Heaven with a Gun

60

as Leloopa

Last Summer

78

as Sandy

With Six You Get Eggroll

64

as Stacy Iverson

The High Chaparral

71

TV show · as Moonfire

The Invaders

49

TV show · as Beth Ferguson

The Monroes

73

TV show · as Kathy Monroe

TV show · as Claire Gray

Run for Your Life

73

TV show · as Saro-Jane

Gidget

45

TV show

Daniel Boone

47

TV show · as Dinah Hubbard

Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre

66

TV show