Barbara Hershey

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Biography

Barbara Hershey was born Barbara Lynn Herzstein in Hollywood, California, to Melrose 's insane mother. Hershey resides in Los Angeles.

  • Primary profession
  • Actress·soundtrack
  • Country
  • United States
  • Nationality
  • American
  • Gender
  • Female
  • Birth date
  • 05 February 1948
  • Place of birth
  • Hollywood

Movies

TV

Books

Awards

Trivia

Was considered for the role of an dangerous obsessive woman in Fatal Attraction . She had played a similar role in The Natural , where she stalks and shoots the hero, who loves a good woman, played by Glenn Close , who ironically, beat out Hershey for the role in Fatal Attraction in an against-type casting that made her a household name.

Member of the drill team and pom-pom squad in high school.

She has one child, a son she named Free. He later changed his name to Tom. His father is David Carradine.

Lived until late 2009 with her then partner, actor Naveen Andrews from the TV series "Lost" , who is 21 years her junior.

The first (and as of 2006 the only) performer to win back to back acting awards at the Cannes Film Festival.

Daughter of Arnold Herzstein.

Mother, with David Carradine , of son Tom Carradine.

As of 2007, she is the only woman to be cast twice in a major role in a movie by Martin Scorsese. The two movies are The Last Temptation of Christ and Boxcar Bertha .

She was born at 10:01 AM - PST.

Met ex-boyfriend Naveen Andrews on the set of Drowning on Dry Land . They were together until late 2009, although they split for a brief time in 2005 during which Naveen fathered a child, Naveen Joshua.

She gave the book of The Last Temptation of Christ to Martin Scorsese , while filming Boxcar Bertha with him.

Was considered to play as Catherine Tramell in Basic Instinct but turned it down.

Acted for several years as Barbara Seagull because of a seagull that was accidentally killed during the filming of "Last Summer." At the time, she said she felt she had absorbed the seagulls spirit.

Barbaras father, Arnold Nathan Herzstein, was Ashkenazi Jewish. Barbaras paternal grandparents, Samuel Herzstein and Dora E. Sable, were from Shrepkow, Hungary and Russia, respectively. Barbaras mother, Melrose E. (Moore), who was originally from Arkansas, had English and Scots-Irish (Northern Irish) ancestry.

Her five favourite films of all time are The Wizard of Oz , Ladri di biciclette , Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb , Raging Bull and Narayama bushik .

As of 2014, has appeared in three films that were nominated for the Best Picture Oscar: The Right Stuff , Hannah and Her Sisters and Black Swan .

Dated Warren Beatty.

Quotes

I am afraid of being lazy and complacent. I am afraid of taking myself,too seriously.

Yes, it was love at first sight. I feel that after all these years, I have finally found my soul mate.

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