| Barbara Hershey  AKA Barbara Herzstein
Born: 5-Feb-1948
Birthplace: Hollywood, CA
Gender: Female
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Actor Nationality: United States
Executive summary: Boxcar Bertha and Mary Magdalene Born and raised in Hollywood, Hershey took drama classes at Hollywood High. At 17, she landed a recurring role on TV's Gidget, starring Sally Field. By the next season, she was in her own quickly-cancelled series, The Monroes, playing one of five orphans in the old west. Hershey's first starring role was as Martin Scorsese's Boxcar Bertha in 1972. During filming, she loaned Scorsese her copy of the novel, The Last Temptation of Christ. More than a decade later he directed a film adaptation of the book, with Hershey as Mary Magdalene. Instead of offering a pious Charlton Heston-esque presentation, the film portrayed Jesus as a man with human characteristics and weaknesses, making it fantastically controversial among Christian fundamentalists. Hershey was peppered her with death threats for months after the movie was released.
In the mid-1970s, she called herself Barbara Seagull (in memory of a bird she accidentally ran over in her car), and was typecast as a hippie, stoner, or wacky chick. Her better-known films include Beaches with Bette Midler, The Natural with Robert Redford, Hoosiers with Gene Hackman, and Hannah and Her Sisters with Woody Allen. More recently, she has done fine work in a long list of quirky, interesting movies -- The Stunt Man, Shy People, A World Apart, Jane Campion's Portrait of a Lady, Lantana, and Merchant-Ivory's underappreciated A Soldier's Daughter Never Cries.
Father: (horseracing columnist)
Mother: (Irish)
Boyfriend: David Carradine (1969-75, one child)
Son: Free Carradine ("Tom", b. 1972)
Husband: Stephen Douglas (painter, m. 8-Aug-1992, div. 1993)
Boyfriend: Naveen Andrews (actor, b. 1969, dating 2002)
High School: Hollywood High School, Hollywood, CA (1966)
Irish Ancestry Maternal
Russian Ancestry Paternal
Jewish Ancestry Paternal
TELEVISION
The Mountain Gennie Carver (2004-05)
FILMOGRAPHY AS ACTOR
Riding the Bullet (15-Oct-2004)
11:14 (16-May-2003)
Daniel Deronda (24-Nov-2002)
Lantana (8-Jun-2001)
Breakfast of Champions (15-May-1999)
A Soldier's Daughter Never Cries (13-Sep-1998)
Frogs for Snakes (20-Feb-1998)
The Portrait of a Lady (18-Oct-1996)
The Pallbearer (03-May-1996)
Last of the Dogmen (08-Sep-1995)
Abraham (3-Apr-1994)
Return to Lonesome Dove (14-Nov-1993)
A Dangerous Woman (10-Sep-1993)
Splitting Heirs (30-Apr-1993)
Swing Kids (5-Mar-1993)
Falling Down (26-Feb-1993)
The Public Eye (15-Sep-1992)
Defenseless (23-Aug-1991)
Paris Trout (20-Apr-1991)
Tune in Tomorrow... (15-Sep-1990)
Beaches (21-Dec-1988)
The Last Temptation of Christ (12-Aug-1988)
A World Apart (17-Jun-1988)
Shy People (17-Jun-1988)
Tin Men (6-Mar-1987)
Hoosiers (14-Nov-1986)
Hannah and Her Sisters (7-Feb-1986)
The Natural (11-May-1984)
The Right Stuff (9-Sep-1983)
The Entity (20-Oct-1982)
Take This Job and Shove It (24-Apr-1981)
The Stunt Man (27-Jun-1980)
A Man Called Intrepid (7-May-1979)
Flood! (24-Nov-1976)
The Last Hard Men (1-Jun-1976)
Trial by Combat (1976)
Diamonds (22-Oct-1975)
The Crazy World of Julius Vrooder (18-Oct-1974)
Boxcar Bertha (14-Jun-1972)
The Baby Maker (1-Oct-1970)
The Liberation of L. B. Jones (18-Mar-1970)
Last Summer (10-Jun-1969)
Heaven With a Gun (1969)
With Six You Get Eggroll (7-Aug-1968)
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