Barbara Hershey

Barbara Hershey (born Barbara Lynn Herzstein; February 5, 1948), also known as Barbara Seagull, is an American actress. En a career que abarca nearly 50 years, she has played a variety of roles on television y cine, en varios géneros, incluyendo westerns and comedies. Although she began acting at age 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 lo awarded Emmy y un Golden Globe for Outstanding Lead Actress In A Miniseries/TV Película for her role in A Killing in a Small Town (1990). She has been nominated for two more Globos de oro: en 1989 for Best Supporting Actress for her role as María Magdalena, de Martin Scorsese,'s The Last Temptation of Christ, and for her role en Jane Campion's Portrait of a Lady (1996). For the latter película, ella, por tanto, lo que nominated for an Academy Award and she won a Los Angeles Film Critics Award for Best Supporting Actress. En suma, she has won two Best Actress awards at the Festival de Cine de Cannes for her roles en Shy People (1987) and A World Apart (1988). She así aparece en both Woody Allen's critically acclaimed Hannah and Her Sisters (1986) y Garry Marshall's comedy, Beaches (1988). Establishing a la reputación de 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 that she later regretted. During this time atrás de vida personal lo que highly publicized and ridiculed. It was not until she separated from Carradine changed and her back stage name to Hershey that her acting career became well established. Later in her career, she began to keep her vida personal como en el privado. Her career lo que de nuevo revivió by the release of Black Swan, for which her manera de overbearing mother and former bailarina has received critical acclaim and a los BAFTA Award nomination.