Barbara Hershey (born Barbara Lynn Herzstein) is an American film and television actress born in Los Angeles on February 5, 1948. She is known for being the first actress to win the best actress award at Cannes two years in a row.
Career
He started acting in television series in the mid-1960s, when he was still in high school. She used the name Barbara Seagull for several years in the late 1960s because she blamed herself for the death of a seagull during a movie shoot, before returning to the name Hershey in the mid-1970s. In 1972, he starred in Martin Scorsese's Boxcar Bertha; He gained attention with The Stunt Man in 1980.
The 1980s were the most productive period of his career. She appeared in Woody Allen's Hannah and Her Sisters (1986). She was named Best Actress two years in a row at the Cannes Film Festival for Shy People (1987) and A World Apart (1988). In 1988, she played Mary Magdalene in Scorsese's The Last Temptation of Christ.
In 1990, he won both an Emmy and a Golden Globe for his role in the television movie A Killing in a Small Town. She was nominated for an Oscar for Best Supporting Actress for Jane Campion's The Portrait of a Lady (1996). In 2010, she played the title character's mother in Black Swan; On television, she reached a new generation with her role as Cora in the TV series Once Upon a Time.
