Barbara hershey

Born on February 5, 1948 in a small Hollywood bungalow, Barbara Lynn Herzstein (her real last name) is the daughter of a Jewish columnist who wrote about horse racing, while her mother was a Presbyterian. Since she was a little girl, she proclaimed to the four winds her desire to become an actress, in her family they nicknamed her “Sarah Bernhardt”. Although she was a brilliant student, because of her acute shyness people thought she was deaf.

She debuted with episodes of the television series Gidget , although she had more success with the short-lived series The Monroes , where she was one of the leads. She also played one of Doris Day ‘s daughters in the last film of this great actress, Mom’s Boyfriend . She, with the great Glenn Ford , appeared in A Gunshot Paradise , where she was Leloopa, a young Indian woman. During filming she fell in love with a co-star, David Carradine , who was not yet the popular lead in Kung Fu . They had a son they called Free, although he later decided to change it to the more conventional “Tom”.

Barbara Hershey starred in the controversial Last Summer , where her character convinced two guys to rape another girl (in a sequence so gritty that the film was rated “X”). During filming, the actress was traumatized by the death of a seagull, which she had to make fly. “We had to repeat the take many times until I realized that the bird was exhausted. In the last take, the director told me that the seagull had broken its neck and died,” recalls the actress, who felt so guilty who between 1973 and 1975 changed her stage name to Barbara Seagull.

Veteran William Wyler recruited her as the defense attorney’s wife in Silence Can’t Buy . One of her most remembered works is the train robber from Bertha’s Train , along with David Carradine, one of Martin Scorsese ‘s first films , which she does not usually repeat with actresses. But he remembers her as one of the best he has worked with and would recruit her again, many years after her, as Mary Magdalene, in The Last Temptation of Christ , who raised blisters in her for her lack of fidelity to the Gospels.

Although at the end of the 70s she was more focused on her stage career, and made many telefilms, she made a comeback in the 80s, with work under the command of Sidney J. Furie ( The Entity ), Philip Kaufman ( Chosen for Glory ), Barry Levinson ( The Best ) and Woody Allen ( Hannah and Her Sisters ). She won the best actress award two years in a row for Distant Lives (1987) and A World Apart (1988). She also shot with Michael Douglas the film One Day of Fury , and earned an Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Role forPortrait of a lady .

After separating from Carradine, Barbara Hershey was united with the painter Stephen Douglas. She has subsequently been in an affair with Naveen Andrews , made famous by his work as the Iraqi Sayid, in Lost .

In recent times, Barbara Hershey was a bit lost in low-profile jobs, although her role as a doctor in Lantana stands out . Darren Aronofsky has rightly caught her, under whose orders she has done one of her best jobs, a frustrated mother, who oppresses her daughter to do what she could not do, succeed as a dancer, in the disturbing black swan . She has also been the mother of Patrick Wilson , who hides a secret from the past, in the terrifying Insidious .