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American actor
Barbara Hershey, an acclaimed American actress, has had a prolific career spanning over 50 years. She has won numerous awards, including an Emmy and a Golden Globe, for her versatile performances in various genres. Despite facing personal challenges early in her career, Hershey has established herself as one of the finest actresses in the industry.
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Barbara Lynn Herzstein, better known as Barbara Hersheyand for her role in The Portrait of a Ladyand 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).
Establishing a reputation early in her career as a hippie, Hershey experienced conflict between her personal life and her acting goals. Her career suffered a decline during a six-year relationship with actor David Carradine, with whom she had a child. She experimented with a change in stage name to Barbara Seagull. During this time, her personal life was highly publicized and ridiculed. Her acting career was not well established until she separated from Carradine and changed her stage name back to Hershey. In 1990, later in her career, it was reported that she began to keep her personal life private.
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Barbara Hershey, also known as Barbara Lynn Herzstein, is an American actress who has had a successful career spanning over 50 years in television and cinema.
Barbara Hershey was born on February 5, 1948.
Barbara Hershey has played a variety of roles on television and in cinema, including in westerns and comedies.
Barbara Hershey has 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 has also received Golden Globe nominations for Best Supporting Actress for her roles in The Last Temptation of Christ (1988) and The Portrait of a Lady (1996), and won the Los Angeles Film Critics Award for Best Supporting Actress for the latter film.
Early in her career, Barbara Hershey experienced conflict between her personal life and her acting goals. Her career suffered a decline during a six-year relationship with actor David Carradine, with whom she had a child. It wasn’t until she separated from Carradine and changed her stage name back to Hershey that her acting career was well-established.
11 Quotes by Barbara Hershey
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That’s what everyone said attracted them to Lantana – I call it an adult mystery, because it’s not a thriller in the sense of that other way, but it is a mystery.
Barbara HersheyAmerican actress
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I am not afraid of aging, but more afraid of people’s reactions to my aging.
Barbara HersheyAmerican actress
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Yes, it was love at first sight. I feel that after all these years, I have finally found my soul mate.
Barbara HersheyAmerican actress
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I just think Australia tends to make very good movies, so if someone hands me an Australian or an American film script I would guess the Australian film would be more intriguing.
Barbara HersheyAmerican actress
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I look back on my life like everybody does but not just career. I mean I look back on my life as a whole, so I don’t think that I dwell there or anything and in terms of work I hope that there is a lot in front of me.
Barbara HersheyAmerican actress
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I know actors come around and they always talk like that, but I don’t do publicity if I don’t like the film.
Barbara HersheyAmerican actress
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So I was always passionate about it and felt that it was sort of the golden thread inside me in terms of what I was supposed to do in terms of work but I think I have relaxed a lot in terms of the actual experience and actually enjoy it more and enjoy the people more.
Barbara HersheyAmerican actress
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It’s also very painful, because I feel, and I know, probably all women my age and older feel like we’re better and have more to give and are more fun now.
Barbara HersheyAmerican actress
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I like the sensibility of Australian film a lot and the crews are fantastic. Great characters, wonderful people and no line between – I think in Hollywood they have this line between actors and crew a lot, and that just didn’t exist, which I really appreciated.
Barbara HersheyAmerican actress
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I loved that it was about human relationships and then it was a mystery without falling into the trap of a thriller per se, because it pulled you in through people rather than through events or effects.
Barbara HersheyAmerican actress
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Sydney’s a beautiful city. It was a great experience.
Barbara HersheyAmerican actress