Barbara Hershey

2002 - Winner - Munich Film Festival - CineMerit Award. She is married to Scottish Indy Racing League driver Dario Franchitti. 2001 - Winner - If Awards - Best Actress - Lantana (shared with Kerry Armstrong, Rachel Blake, Daniella Farinacci and Leah Purcell). Whenever her schedule allows, she is regularly at UK basketball games, and is frequently sought out for celebrity camera shots during televised games (much like Jack Nicholson with the Los Angeles Lakers or Spike Lee with the New York Knicks). 1999 - Nominee - Golden Satellite Awards - Best Actress in a TV Film - The Staircase. As a result she could play leading roles in films that were bound to be successful at the box office, but still required acting skills, like Double Jeopardy (1999) and Someone Like You (2001). 1997 - Winner - National Society of Film Critics Awards USA - Best Supporting Actress - The Portrait of a Lady. By the end of the 1990s she managed to achieve significant fame and success as an actress.

1997 - Nominee - Academy Awards - Best Supporting Actress - The Portrait of a Lady. She found further critical acclaim in Smoke (1995) and publicity in Heat (1995). 1997 - Nominee - Golden Globes - Best Supporting Actress - The Portrait of a Lady. She had a role in Oliver Stone's Natural Born Killers, but all the scenes she played in were cut from the final version of the film. 1996 - Winner - Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards - Best Supporting Actress - The Portrait of a Lady. Her film debut was a small part in Kuffs (1992) and the first major role was in Ruby in Paradise (1993), a hit independent drama. 1991 - Winner - Golden Globes - Best Actress in a TV Film - Killing in a Small Town. She graduated from the University of Kentucky in 1990, majoring in French.

1991 - Nominee - Emmy Awards - Outstanding Lead Actress in A Miniseries/TV Film - Paris Trout. Her mother and sister are country singers, Naomi Judd and Wynonna Judd, respectively. 1990 - Winner - Emmy Awards - Outstanding Lead Actress In A Miniseries/TV Film - Killing in a Small Town. Ashley Judd (born April 19, 1968 in Granada Hills, California) is an American actress. 1989 - Nominee - Golden Globes - Best Supporting Actress - The Last Temptation of Christ. Kuffs (1992). 1988 - Winner - Cannes Film Festival - Best Actress - A World Apart (shared with Jodhi May and Linda Mvusi). Ruby in Paradise (1993).

1987 - Winner - Cannes Film Festival - Best Actress - Shy People. Smoke (1995). 1987 - Nominee - BAFTA Awards - Best Supporting Actress - Hannah and Her Sisters. Heat (1995). 1970 - Nominee - Laurel Awards - Female New Face - Last Summer. The Passion of Darkly Noon (aka Darkly Noon) (1995). 1967 - Winner - Western Heritage Awards - Fictional Television Drama - The Monroes (shared with cast and crew). A Time to Kill (1996).

In what one hopes will not be her last hurrah as a film actress, she gave an unforgettable performance as Madame Merle in Jane Campion's 1996 adaptation of the Henry James novel "The Portrait of a Lady" - earning an Oscar nomination and winning the Best Supporting Actress award from the National Society of Film Critics. Normal Life (1996). But as an actress in her forties, she was once more forced into smaller independent films and television work. The Locusts (aka A Secret Sin) (1997). In 1990 she won an Emmy for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Miniseries or Special for her harrowing turn as real-life murderer Candy Morrison in "A Killing in a Small Town". Kiss the Girls (1997). For her role in the 1988 Bette Midler sudser "Beaches", she injected collagen into her lips - an act that drew a ridiculous amount on negative media coverage. Simon Birch (aka Angels and Armadillos) (1998).

In mid-decade, she followed the commercial success of "Hannah and Her Sisters" with unprecedented back-to-back wins for Best Actress at the Cannes Film Festival and Scorsese's long-awaited but fatally controversial "The Last Temptation of Christ". Eye of the Beholder (1999). Her performance as Glynnis Yeager in Philip Kaufman's 1983 film of "The Right Stuff" marked the true beginning of her career renaissance. Double Jeopardy (1999). Yet even in such uninspiring material, Hershey found the means of a giving committed, affecting performance - sufficiently impressing Michael Douglas to have him later fight to have her cast as his estranged wife in "Falling Down". Where the Heart Is (2000). She would still need to pay dues in unglamorous vehicles like 1981's exploitation shocker "The Entity", where she played a woman repeatedly raped by an unseen supernatural force. Someone Like You (aka Animal Attraction) (2001).

The road back to industry acceptance would not be short or smooth. High Crimes (2002). But her excellent work in Richard Rush's 1980 critical favorite "The Stunt Man" - her first big screen appearance in four years - served as a reminder to Hollywood that there was still a notably beautiful and talented actress in their midst. The Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood (2002). However, the hippie label soon became a career impediment and by the late 1970s she was reduced to appearing in made-for-TV embarrassments like "Flood!" and "Sunshine Christmas". Frida (2002). In characteristically free-spirited fashion, they would later recreate their love scene in a hay-filled boxcar for a Playboy magazine pictorial. De-Lovely (2004).

Hershey's co-star in "Boxcar Bertha" was once again David Carradine. Adapting that book into a film would become a 16 year labor of love for Scorsese, who would eventually cast Hershey as Mary Magdalene - though not before making her audition, to prove that she had earned it. This image helped secure her the starring role in the 1972 Roger Corman production "Boxcar Bertha", which was being directed on the cheap by a fresh-out-of-film-school talent named Martin Scorsese. During filming, Hershey gave Scorsese a copy of her favorite book - Nikos Kazantzakis's "The Last Temptation of Christ". Her 1970 film "The Baby Maker" explored the idea of surrogate motherhood many years before it became a mainstream reproductive option and cemented her image as a free-spirited hippie.

Hershey felt a sense of personal responsibility for its death and went by the name of Barbara Seagull for several years in the early 1970s as a tribute to the creature. During the filming of a scene for "Last Summer", a seagull was killed. Hershey's powerful performance as a manipulative queen bee made a large impression on Woody Allen, who would later foster her mid-80s career revival by casting her in his greatest commercial success "Hannah and Her Sisters". The film received an X rating for an unflinching rape scene and earned a Best Supporting Actress nomination for co-star Cathy Burns.

Later that year came the shocking drama "Last Summer", based on the novel by Evan Hunter (better known for his police procedurals written under the pseudonym Ed McBain) and directed by future "Mommy Dearest" helmsman Frank Perry. (He later chose the name Tom for himself.). They became a romantic couple and a prominent symbol of the Hollywood counterculture - famously naming their child Free. This was followed by the 1969 Glenn Ford western "Heaven With A Gun", where one of her co-stars was future "Kung Fu" star David Carradine.

Her feature film debut was in the 1968 comedy "With Six You Get Eggroll" - which also marked Doris Day's final screen appearance. She found working on "The Monroes" to be such a dispiriting experience that she wrote pseudonymous letters to the producers asking that the show be cancelled. Her debut was guest starring in three episodes of Gidget in 1965, which she followed up with roles in the television series The Monroes (1966). She attended Hollywood High School and quickly found her vocation.

One of America's most accomplished actresses, Barbara Hershey was born Barbara Herzstein on February 5, 1948 in Hollywood, California where her father was a professional gambler. 5 February 1948) known for her many film roles. Barbara Hershey is an American actress (b.