Twelve Barbara Hershey facts

1. Barbara Hershey was born on February 5, 1948 in Hollywood, California.
2. Barbara Hershey is a famous American actress, known for her many film roles.
3. Born and raised in Hollywood, Barbara Hershey took drama classes at Hollywood High.
4. At 17, Barbara landed a recurring role on TV's Gidget, starring Sally Field.
5. Barbara Hershey's first starring role was as Martin Scorsese's Boxcar Bertha in 1972.
6. Hershey lived with actor David Carradine between 1969 and 1975, and was married to Stephen Douglas, an artist, between 1992 and 1993.
7. In 1990, Barbara Hershey won an Emmy for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Miniseries or Special for her turn as real-life murderer Candy Morrison in A Killing in a Small Town.
8. As Madame Merle in Jane Campion's 1996 adaptation of the Henry James novel The Portrait of a Lady, Hershey earned an Oscar nomination and won the Best Supporting Actress award from the National Society of Film Critics.
9. Barbara Hershey Height : 5'6"/168 cm.
10. Daughter of Arnold Herzstein.
11. Her father was Jewish and her mother was an Arkansas-born Presbyterian of Irish descent.
12. Hershey and Carradine were a prominent symbol of the Hollywood counterculture, becoming parents to a child whom they named Free (who later changed his name to Tom).