Barbara Hershey born Barbara Lynn Herzstein February 5 1948 is an American actress In a career spanning more than 50 years she has played a variety of roles on television and in cinema in several genres including westerns and comedies She began acting at age 17 in 1965 but 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 Americas finest actresses Hershey won an Emmy and a Golden Globe for Outstanding Lead Actress in a MiniseriesTV Film for her role in A Killing in a Small Town 1990 She received Golden Globe nominations for Best Supporting Actress for her role as Mary Magdalene in The Last Temptation of Christ 1988 and for her role in The Portrait of a Lady 1996 For the latter film she was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress and won the Los Angeles Film Critics Award for Best Supporting Actress She has won two Best Actress awards at the Cannes Film Festival for her roles in Shy People 1987 and A World Apart 1988 She was featured in Woody Allens Hannah and Her Sisters 1986 for which she was nominated for the British Academy Film Award for Best Supporting Actress and Garry Marshalls melodrama Beaches 1988 and she earned a second British Academy Film Award nomination for Darren Aronofskys Black Swan 2010 Description above from the Wikipedia article Barbara Hershey licensed under CCBYSA full list of contributors on Wikipedia
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