Barbara Hershey is an American actress, known for her many film roles. Film is a term that encompasses individual motion pictures, the field of film as an art form, and the motion picture industry. ...

Biography

Born Barbara Lynn Herzstein on February 5, 1948 in Hollywood, California to an Irish American mother and a Jewish American father who was a horse-racing columnist, Hershey attended Hollywood High School. Her debut was guest starring in three episodes of Gidget in 1965, which she followed up by being cast in the television series The Monroes (1966). She found working on The Monroes to be such a dispiriting experience that she wrote pseudonymous letters to the producers asking that the show be cancelled. In 1967 she also made a guest appearance on the hit series "Daniel Boone" the episode was titled, "The Kings Shilling". Her feature film debut was in the 1968 comedy - With Six You Get Eggroll - which also marked Doris Day's final screen appearance. This was followed by the 1969 Glenn Ford western Heaven with a Gun, where one of her co-stars was future Kung Fu star David Carradine. They became a romantic couple and a prominent symbol of the Hollywood counterculture, becoming parents to a child whom they named Free (who later changed his name to Tom). February 5 is the 36th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... Year 1948 (MCMXLVIII) was a leap year starting on Thursday (the link is to a full 1948 calendar). ... Greetings from Hollywood Hollywood is a district of the city of Los Angeles, California, U.S.A., that extends from Vermont Avenue on the east to just beyond Laurel Canyon Boulevard above Sunset and Crescent Heights Boulevards on the west; the north to south boundary east of La Brea Avenue... Irish population density in the United States, 1872. ... A Jewish American (also commonly American Jew) is an American (a citizen of the United States) of Jewish descent who maintains a connection to the Jewish community, either through actively practicing Judaism or through cultural and historical affiliation. ... Gidget was a film starring fifties teen icon Sandra Dee was produced in the USA in 1959. ... The Monroes was a television series first shown in 1966. ... A pseudonym (Greek pseudo + -onym: false name) is an artificial, fictitious name, also known as an alias, used by an individual as an alternative to a persons true name. ... With Six You Get Eggroll is a Chinese movie from 1963, starring American actor George Carlin and American television show host Johnny Carson in wild chase across America to save a baby seal in the nick of time. ... Doris Mary Ann von Kappelhoff, known as Doris Day (born April 3, 1924), is an American singer, actress, and animal welfare advocate. ... Glenn Ford in 1979 Gwyllyn Samuel Newton Glenn Ford (May 1, 1916 – August 30, 2006) was an acclaimed Canadian-American actor from Hollywoods Golden Era with a career that spanned seven decades. ... Broncho Billy Anderson, from The Great Train Robbery The Western movie is one of the classic American film genres. ... Master Po (left) and Kwai Chang Caine (right) in a flashback from the episode Dark Angel, written by Herman Miller Kung Fu (1972-1975) was an award-winning American television series which starred David Carradine. ... David Carradine (born John Arthur Carradine on December 8, 1936 in Hollywood, California) is an American actor. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ...

Later that year came the drama Last Summer, based on the novel by Evan Hunter (better known for his police procedurals written under the pseudonym Ed McBain) and directed by future Mommie Dearest helmsman Frank Perry. The film received an X rating for a graphic rape scene and earned a Best Supporting Actress Oscar nomination for co-star Cathy Burns. During the filming of a scene for Last Summer, a seagull was killed. Hershey felt a sense of personal responsibility for its death and went by the name of Barbara Seagull for several years in the early 1970s as a tribute to the creature. Last Summer is a 1969 film with Catherine Burns. ... Evan Hunter, born Salvatore Lombino (October 15, 1926 - July 6, 2005), was a prolific American author and screenwriter. ... Mommie Dearest Mommie Dearest is a 1981 Paramount drama motion picture starring Faye Dunaway as Joan Crawford and Diana Scarwid as Christina Crawford, with Mara Hobel playing Christina as a child, Xander Berkeley playing Christopher Crawford as an adult, and Jeremy Scott Reinbolt playing Christopher as a child. ... Frank Perry (born August 21, 1930 - died August 29, 1995) was an American stage and film director, producer, and screenwriter. ... X-rated (also known as X certificate or X classification) is a label for movies implying strong adult content, typically pornography or violence. ... Academy Award The Academy Awards, popularly known as the Oscars, are the most prominent and most watched film awards ceremony in the world. ... Look up gull in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ...

Her 1970 film The Baby Maker explored the idea of surrogate motherhood many years before it became a mainstream reproductive option and reinforced her image as a free-spirited hippie. 1970 (MCMLXX) was a common year starting on Thursday (the link is to a full 1970 calendar). ... It has been suggested that this article or section be merged into surrogacy. ... Singer at contemporary Russian Rainbow gathering Hippie, usually spelled hippy in the United Kingdom, refers to a subgroup of the 1960s and early 1970s counterculture that began in the United States, becoming an established social group by 1965 before declining during the mid-1970s. ...

This image helped secure her the starring role in the 1972 Roger Corman production Boxcar Bertha, which was being directed on a typically low Corman budget by a fresh-out-of-film-school Martin Scorsese. During filming, Hershey gave Scorsese a copy of her favorite book - Nikos Kazantzakis's The Last Temptation of Christ. Adapting that book into a film would become a 16-year labor of love for Scorsese, who would eventually cast Hershey as Mary Magdalene - though not before making her audition, to prove that she had earned it. Hershey's co-star in Boxcar Bertha was once again David Carradine. They would later recreate their love scene in a hay-filled boxcar for a Playboy magazine pictorial. 1972 (MCMLXXII) was a leap year starting on Saturday. ... Roger Corman. ... Boxcar Bertha (1972), one of acclaimed director Martin Scorseses earliest films, is an extremely loose adaptation of Sister of the Road, the fictionalized autobiography of radical and transient Bertha Thompson as written by physician Dr. Ben L. Reitman (Ben Reitman). ... Martin Luciano Scorsese (IPA: AmE: ; Ita: []) (born November 17, 1942) is an Academy Award-winning American film director. ... For the municipality on Crete see Nikos Kazantzakis (municipality). ... The Last Temptation of Christ, (in Greek O Teleutaios Peirasmos, Ο Τελευταίος Πειρασμός) also published as The Last Temptation, is a novel written by Nikos Kazantzakis, first published in 1951. ... The penitent Mary Magdalen, a much reproduced composition by Titian. ... The first issue of Playboy. ...

In 1976, she starred alongside Charlton Heston in The Last Hard Men. However, the hippie label soon became a career impediment and by the late 1970s she was appearing in made-for-TV movies like Flood! and Sunshine Christmas. But her work in Richard Rush's 1980 critical favorite The Stunt Man - her first big screen appearance in four years - began a gradual career renaissance. 1976 (MCMLXXVI) was a leap year starting on Thursday. ... Charlton Heston (born John Charles Carter on October 4, 1923) is an iconic Academy Award-winning American film actor, best known for playing larger-than-life heroic roles such as Moses in The Ten Commandments and Judah Ben-Hur in Ben-Hur. ... For the United States statesman, see Richard Rush Richard Rush is a movie director, best known for the Oscar-nominated The Stunt Man. ... The Stunt Man is a 1980 American film directed by Richard Rush, starring Peter OToole, Steve Railsback and Barbara Hershey. ...

Her appearance in the 1981 horror film The Entity - where she played a woman repeatedly raped by an unseen supernatural force - sufficiently impressed Michael Douglas to have him later fight to have her cast as his estranged wife in Falling Down. The Entity was a 1981 horror film starring Barbara Hershey as Carla Moran, a California woman who was tormented by an unseen entity. ... Look up Supernatural in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... Douglas at the Cinedom Movie Theater in Cologne, Germany, January, 1997 For other people bearing this name, see Michael Douglas (disambiguation). ... Falling Down is a 1993 film by Joel Schumacher about the character William Bill Foster (played by Michael Douglas) also known as D-FENS (named for his license plate), an unemployed American missile engineer with a considerable life insurance policy, making an attempt to go home for his daughters...

Hershey's performance as a manipulative queen bee made a large impression on Woody Allen, who would later foster her mid-80s career revival by casting her in his greatest commercial success Hannah and Her Sisters. She gained increased visibility with performance as Glennis Yeager, wife of test pilot Chuck Yeager, in Philip Kaufman's 1983 film, The Right Stuff. In mid-decade, she followed the commercial success of Hannah and Her Sisters with unprecedented back-to-back wins for Best Actress at the Cannes Film Festival for Shy People and for A World Apart. Woody Allen (born Allan Stewart Konigsberg on December 1, 1935) is a three-time Academy Award-winning American film director, writer, actor, musician, and comedian. ... Hannah and Her Sisters is a 1986 romantic comedy film which tells the intertwined stories of an extended family, told mostly during a year that begins and ends with a family Thanksgiving dinner. ... Charles Yeager Charles Elwood Chuck Yeager (born on February 13, 1923, in Lincoln County, West Virginia) is an American former general officer in the United States Air Force and a noted test pilot. ... Philip Kaufman (born October 23, 1936) is a film director and screenwriter from Chicago, Illinois. ... The Right Stuff is both a 1979 book by Tom Wolfe, and a 1983 film adapted from the book. ... Cannes Film Festival logo. ... A World Apart is an Anti-Apartheid drama, written by Shawn Slovo and directed by Chris Menges, produced in 1988. ...

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In 1990, she won an Emmy for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Miniseries or Special for her turn as real-life murderer Candy Morrison in A Killing in a Small Town. Throughout the nineties, Hershey made more small independent films and television projects. An Emmy Award. ...

As Madame Merle in Jane Campion's 1996 adaptation of the Henry James novel The Portrait of a Lady, Hershey earned an Oscar nomination and won the Best Supporting Actress award from the National Society of Film Critics. In 1999, Hershey starred in Drowning on Dry Land with Naveen Andrews - with whom she entered into a romantic relationship. During a brief separation in 2005, Andrews fathered a child by another woman. He and Hershey have reconciled. Jane Campion (born April 30, 1954 in Wellington, New Zealand) is an Academy Award Winning film maker. ... For other uses of this name, see Henry James (disambiguation). ... The Portrait of a Lady is the film version of a Henry James novel The Portrait of a Lady. ... 1999 (MCMXCIX) was a common year starting on Friday, and was designated the International Year of Older Persons by the United Nations. ... Naveen William Sidney Andrews (born January 17, 1969) is an Emmy-nominated and Golden Globe nominated English actor. ...

In 2001, Hershey was part of a largely Australian ensemble cast for the critically successful Australian film Lantana, which also starred Kerry Armstrong, Anthony LaPaglia and Geoffrey Rush playing a troubled psychiatrist. She appeared in 11:14 in 2003. Lantana is a 2001 Australian film, directed by Ray Lawrence. ... Kerry Armstrong (b. ... Anthony LaPaglia (born 31 January 1959) (pronounced ) is an Australian actor, best known for his role as FBI agent Jack Malone on the American TV series Without a Trace, a role which won him a Golden Globe Award. ... Geoffrey Rush as Captain Barbossa, as depicted in Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl Geoffrey Rush (born 6 July 1951) is an Australian Academy Award and Emmy Award winning actor. ...

Her most recent screen credit was in the 2004 Stephen King adaptation Riding the Bullet. Stephen Edwin King (born September 21, 1947) is an American author best known for his enormously popular horror novels. ...

Awards

• 1967 - Winner - Western Heritage Awards - Fictional Television Drama - The Monroes (shared with cast and crew)
• 1970 - Nominee - Laurel Awards - Female New Face - Last Summer
• 1987 - Nominee - BAFTA Awards - Best Supporting Actress - Hannah and Her Sisters
• 1987 - Winner - Cannes Film Festival - Best Actress - Shy People
• 1988 - Winner - Cannes Film Festival - Best Actress - A World Apart (shared with Jodhi May and Linda Mvusi)
• 1989 - Nominee - Golden Globes - Best Supporting Actress - The Last Temptation of Christ
• 1990 - Winner - Emmy Awards - Outstanding Lead Actress In A Miniseries/TV Film - Killing in a Small Town
• 1991 - Nominee - Emmy Awards - Outstanding Lead Actress in A Miniseries/TV Film - Paris Trout
• 1996 - Nominee - Academy Awards - Best Supporting Actress - Portrait of a Lady

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Notes and references

1. ^ Collagen smooths wrinkles and plumps your kisser

External link

• Barbara Hershey at the Internet Movie Database