# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/barbara-hershey
# Generated: 2026-08-12T23:53:58.924Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/barbara-hershey"
name: "Barbara Hershey"
slug: "barbara-hershey"
description: "Barbara Lynn Herzstein, better known as Barbara Hershey, is an American actress. In a career spanning more than 50 years, she has played a variety of roles on television and in cinema in several genres, including Westerns, horrors, and comedies. She began acting at age 17 in 1965, but did not achieve widespread critical acclaim until the 1980s. By that time, the Chicago Tribune referred to her as \"one of America's finest actresses\"."
tagline: "American actress"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Barbara_Hershey_by_Gage_Skidmore.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Actors"
  slug: "actors"
profileType:
  name: "Actor"
  slug: "actor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1948-02-05"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           61.22
  momentum:             3.648672937511235
  historical:           25.44064666666667
  currentAttention:     5.32
  sourceConfidence:     70
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    handle:    "BarbaraHershey8"
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001347/"
    handle:    "nm0001347"
sources:
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    title: "Wikiquote"
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    title: "باربرا هيرشي"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "باربرا هيرشى"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Μπάρμπαρα Χέρσεϊ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Barbara Hershey"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbara_Hershey"
    title: "Barbara Hershey"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "ברברה הרשי"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbara_Hershey"
    title: "Barbara Hershey"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbara_Hershey"
    title: "Barbara Hershey"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Բարբարա Հերշի"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Barbara Hershey"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Barbara Hershey"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q229042"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/10767"
    title: "Barbara Hershey"
    type:  "DATABASE"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump