ACTOR
Barbara Hershey
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- #001
Her mother is the mother of Tom Carradine, whose father is David Carradine.
- #002
Until late 2009, she was in a relationship with actor Naveen Andrews, her co-star on the series Lost (2004), who is 21 years younger than her.
- #003
She has one child, a son she named Özgür, whose name was later changed to Tom. His father is David Carradine.
- #004
As of 2007, she is the only woman to have played a major role in a Martin Scorsese film twice, in The Last Temptation of Christ (1988) and Boxcar Bertha (1972).
- #005
She appeared in three films nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture: The Right Stuff (1983), Hannah and Her Sisters (1986) and Black Swan (2010).
- #006
After a seagull was accidentally killed during the filming of "Last Summer," she took on the role of Barbara Seagull for several years. She said she felt she had absorbed the seagull's spirit at the time.
- #007
During the filming of Boxcar Bertha (1972) with Martin Scorsese, she gave him the book The Last Temptation of Christ (1988).
- #008
She is the first (and, as of 2006, the only) actor to win consecutive acting awards at the Cannes Film Festival.
- #009
She was considered for the role of the dangerously obsessive woman in Fatal Attraction (1987). She had played a similar role in The Natural (1984), in which she follows and shoots the hero who loves a good woman played by Glenn Close; ironically, that woman beat out Hershey in the casting for the opposite type of role in Fatal Attraction (1987), making her a household name.
- #010
Her five favorite films of all time are The Wizard of Oz (1939), Bicycle Thieves (1948), Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964), Raging Bull (1980) and The Ballad of Narayama (1983).
- #011
She met her former boyfriend Naveen Andrews on the set of Drowning on Dry Land (1999). They were together until late 2009, though they briefly separated in 2005, during which time Naveen became the father of a child named Naveen Joshua.
- #012
Barbara's father, Arnold Nathan Herzstein, was an Ashkenazi Jew; his grandparents Samuel Herzstein and Dora E. Sable were from Shrepkow, Hungary and Russia. Her mother, Melrose E. Moore, was originally from Arkansas and had English and Scots-Irish (Northern Irish) ancestry.
- #013
She shares her birthday with John Carradine, her son's grandfather.
- #014
She was considered for the role of Catherine Tramell in Basic Instinct (1992) but turned it down.
- #015
In high school she was a member of the drill team and the cheerleading squad.
- #016
She dated Warren Beatty.
- #017
She is the daughter of Arnold Herzstein.
- #018
She was born at 10:01 a.m. (PST).
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