Barbara Hershey

Barbara Hershey (born Barbara Lynn Herzstein; February 5, 1948), also known as Barbara Seagull, is an American actress. A carrière couvrant près de 50 ans, she has played a variety of roles on television and cinema, dans plusieurs genres, including westerns and comedies. Although she began intérim at age de 17 en 1965, Hershey did not achieve much critical acclaim until the latter half of the 1980s. By that time, the Chicago Tribune referred to her as one of America's finest actresses." Hershey ce que awarded à l'Emmy et le Golden Globe de la for Outstanding Lead Actress In A Miniseries/TV Film for her role in A Killing in a Small Town (1990). She has been nominated for two more Golden Globes: en 1989 for Best Supporting Actress for her role as Mary Magdalene de Martin Scorsese s The Last Temptation of Christ, and for her role dans Jane Campion s Portrait of a Lady (1996). For the latter film, she was also nominated for aux Academy Award and she won a Los Angeles Film Critics Award for Best Supporting Actress. In addition, she has won two Best Actress awards at the Cannes Film Festival for her roles Shy People (1987) and A World Apart (1988). Elle est donc en vedette dans both Woody Allen s critically acclaimed Hannah and Her Sisters (1986) et Garry Marshall s comedy, Beaches (1988). Establishing a la réputation early in her career as a "hippie", Hershey experienced conflict between her personal life and her intérim goals. Her career suffered a decline during a six year relationship with acteur David Carradine, with whom she had a child. She experimented with a change en stage name that she later regretted. During this time her personal life que highly publicized and ridiculed. It was not until she separated from Carradine and changed her stage nom de back to Hershey that her intérim career became well established. Later in her career, she began to keep her personal life privé. Her career ce again revived by the release of Black Swan, for which her portrayal of an overbearing mother and former ballerine has received critical acclaim and a BAFTA Award nomination.