Barbara Hershey - biography

“I know actors come around and they always talk like that, but I don’t do publicity if I don’t like the film.”

“I like the sensibility of Australian film a lot and the crews are fantastic.  Great characters, wonderful people and no line between - I think in Hollywood they have this line between actors and crew a lot, and that just didn’t exist, which I really appreciated.”

“I just think Australia tends to make very good movies, so if someone hands me an Australian or an American film script I would guess the Australian film would be more intriguing.”

“I look back on my life like everybody does but not just career.  I mean I look back on my life as a whole, so I don’t think that I dwell there or anything and in terms of work I hope that there is a lot in front of me.”

“I believe in love at first sight, though I don’t really know if it’s love.”

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

“It’s also very painful, because I feel, and I know, probably all women my age and older feel like we’re better and have more to give and are more fun now.”

“He’s one of the few people who can really write roles for women.”

“I am not afraid of aging, but more afraid of people’s reactions to my aging.”

“I loved that it was about human relationships and then it was a mystery without falling into the trap of a thriller per se, because it pulled you in through people rather than through events or effects.”

“Most memorable rumour about me?  That I wanted to eat my son’s placenta.  How do you defend yourself against something like that?”

“So I was always passionate about it and felt that it was sort of the golden thread inside me in terms of what I was supposed to do in terms of work but I think I have relaxed a lot in terms of the actual experience and actually enjoy it more and enjoy the people more.”

“Sydney’s a beautiful city.  It was a great experience.”

“That’s what everyone said attracted them to Lantana - I call it an adult mystery, because it’s not a thriller in the sense of that other way, but it is a mystery.”

Barbara Hershey has appeared in the following films:
With Six You Get Eggroll (1968)
Heaven with a Gun (1969)
The Liberation of L.B. Jones (1970)
Boxcar Bertha (1972)
Love Comes Quietly (1973)
You and Me (1975)
The Last Hard Men (1976)
Trial by Combat (1976)
The Stunt Man (1980)
The Right Stuff (1983)
Americana (1983)
The Natural (1984)
Hannah and Her Sisters (1986)
Best Shot (1986)
Tin Men (1987)
Beaches (1988)
The Last Temptation of Christ (1988)
A World Apart (1988)
Tune in Tomorrow... (1990)
Paris Trout (1991)
Defenseless (1991)
The Public Eye (1992)
Splitting Heirs (1993)
A Dangerous Woman (1993)
Falling Down (1993)
Swing Kids (1993)
Last of the Dogmen (1995)
The Portrait of a Lady (1996)
The Pallbearer (1996)
A Soldier’s Daughter Never Cries (1998)
Frogs for Snakes (1998)
Breakfast of Champions (1999)
Passion (1999)
Lantana (2001)
11:14 (2003)
Riding the Bullet (2004)
Childless (2008)
Black Swan (2010)