78-442: Childless is a 2008 American drama film written and directed by Charlie Levi and starring Barbara Hershey , Joe Mantegna , James Naughton and Diane Venora . The sudden passing of a teenage girl unsettles the four adults in her life. Jarred by this glimpse of mortality, they struggle to understand – or justify – the current state of their own lives. As each gets ready for the funeral, they speak their private thoughts directly to
156-549: A Golden Globe for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Miniseries/TV Film for her role in A Killing in a Small Town (1990). She received Golden Globe nominations for Best Supporting Actress for her role as Mary Magdalene in The Last Temptation of Christ (1988) and for her role in The Portrait of a Lady (1996). For the latter film, she was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress and won
234-601: A "kook" and stated that she was frequently "high on something". In addition to that criticism, she had been ostracized for breast-feeding her son during an appearance on The Dick Cavett Show , and for breast-feeding him beyond the age of two years. She said that this period of her life hurt her career: "Producers wouldn't see me because I had a reputation for using drugs and being undependable. I never used drugs at all and I have always been serious about my acting career." After splitting up with Carradine, she changed her stage name back to "Hershey", explaining that she had told
312-449: A Drama Series, Field said: "If the mothers ruled the world, there would be no goddamn wars in the first place." Fox Broadcasting Company , which aired the show, cut the sound and picture after the word "god" and did not return camera/sound to the stage until after Field finished talking. An e-mail statement from the company the day after the incident explained that the censorship of Field's speech (among two other censorship incidents during
390-516: A Gun . The pair began a domestic relationship that lasted until 1975. Carradine said that during the rape scene in that movie, he cracked one of Barbara's ribs. They appeared in other films together including Martin Scorsese's Boxcar Bertha . In 1972, the couple posed together in a nude Playboy spread, recreating some sex scenes from Boxcar Bertha . On October 6, 1972, Hershey gave birth to their son, Free, who changed his name to Tom when he
468-767: A Play . She made her debut on the West End theatre in the revival of Arthur Miller 's All My Sons in 2019. Sally Field was born on November 6, 1946, in Pasadena, California , to actress Margaret Field (née Morlan) and pharmacist Richard Dryden Field, who served in the Army during World War II. Her brother is Richard Dryden Field Jr. , a physicist and academic. Her parents were divorced in 1950; on January 21, 1952, in Tijuana, Mexico, her mother married Jock Mahoney , an actor and stuntman. Field said in her 2018 memoir that she
546-632: A controversial thriller based on the real-life experience of Betty Mahmoody 's escape from Iran with her daughter Mahtob ; and Soapdish , a comedy in which she played a pampered soap-opera star and was joined by a cast that included Kevin Kline , Whoopi Goldberg , Cathy Moriarty , Elisabeth Shue , and Robert Downey Jr. In 1996, Field reprised her role as Sassy in Homeward Bound 2: Lost in San Francisco and later that year, she received
624-674: A gold medal at the Atlanta Film Festival for her role in the Dutch-produced film Love Comes Quietly . Later in the decade, Hershey starred with Charlton Heston in The Last Hard Men (1976). She hoped the film would revive her career after the damage she felt it had suffered while she was with Carradine, believing that the hippie label she had been given was a career impediment. By this time, she had shed Carradine and her "Seagull" pseudonym. Throughout
702-464: A great little actress, much, much more than just another pretty face." Hershey once said that starring in Boxcar Bertha (1972) "was the most fun I ever had on a movie." The film, co-starring Hershey's domestic partner, David Carradine, and produced by Roger Corman , was Martin Scorsese 's first Hollywood picture. Shot in six weeks on a budget of $ 600,000, Boxcar Bertha was intended to be
780-755: A late addition to the ABC drama Brothers & Sisters , which debuted in September 2006. In the show's pilot, the role of matriarch Nora Walker was played by Betty Buckley . However, the show's producers decided to take the character in another direction, and offered the part to Field, who won the 2007 Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series for her performance. The drama also starred Calista Flockhart and Rachel Griffiths as Nora's adult daughters. In November 2009, Field appeared on an episode of The Doctors to talk about osteoporosis and her Rally With Sally Foundation. She portrayed Aunt May in
858-410: A native of Arkansas , was a Presbyterian of Scots-Irish descent. The youngest of three children, Barbara always wanted to be an actress, and her family nicknamed her " Sarah Bernhardt ". She was shy in school and so quiet that people thought she was deaf. By the age of ten, she proved herself to be an "A" student. Her high-school drama coach helped her find an agent, and in 1965, at age 17, she landed
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#1732802296183936-882: A novelist and screenwriter ; and Eli Craig , an actor and director. From 1976 to 1980, Field had a relationship with Burt Reynolds , during which time they co-starred in four films: Smokey and the Bandit , Smokey and the Bandit II , The End , and Hooper . Following their 1980 breakup, Field and Reynolds continued to date on and off before splitting permanently in 1982. Field married her second husband, Alan Greisman, in 1984. Together, they had one son, Sam (b. 1987). Field and Greisman divorced in 1994. On October 29, 1988, at Aspen/Pitkin County Airport in Colorado , Field and three members of her family were in
1014-439: A part in that film. She also felt The Stunt Man was an important transition for her, from playing girls to playing women. Some of the "women roles" that followed The Stunt Man included the horror movie The Entity (1982); Philip Kaufman's The Right Stuff (1983), in which she played Glennis Yeager, wife of test pilot Chuck Yeager ; and The Natural (1984), in which she shot Robert Redford's character, inspired by
1092-467: A period crime drama similar to Corman's Bloody Mama (1970) or Bonnie and Clyde (1967). Although Corman publicized it as an exploitation piece with plenty of sex and violence, Scorsese's influence made it "something much more". Roger Ebert , of the Chicago Sun-Times , wrote of the film's direction, "Martin Scorsese has gone for mood and atmosphere more than for action, and his violence
1170-469: A private plane owned by media mogul Merv Griffin when it lost power and rejected takeoff , slamming into a parked aircraft. They all survived with minor injuries. In 2005, Field was diagnosed with osteoporosis . Her diagnosis led her to create the "Rally with Sally for Bone Health" campaign with support from Roche and GlaxoSmithKline that controversially co-promoted Boniva , a bisphosphonate treatment for osteoporosis. Field's campaign encouraged
1248-558: A real-life incident where Ruth Ann Steinhagen shot ballplayer Eddie Waitkus . For the role of Harriet Bird, Hershey had chosen a particular hat as her "anchor". Director Barry Levinson disagreed with her choice, but she insisted on wearing it. Levinson later cast Hershey as the wife of Danny DeVito's character in the comedy Tin Men (1987). In 1986, Hershey left her native California and moved with her son to Manhattan. Three days later, she met briefly with Woody Allen , who offered her
1326-578: A recurring role in the first two seasons of ABC's hit drama Once Upon a Time as Cora , the Queen of Hearts and mother of the Evil Queen. In 2014, she reprised the role in one episode of the show's spin-off Once Upon a Time in Wonderland . In 2015, she once more reprised the role when she returned to the show for an episode of its fourth season, and in 2016, she appeared again for two episodes of
1404-411: A role on Sally Field 's television series Gidget . Barbara said that she found Field to be very supportive of her in her first acting role. According to The New York Times All Movie Guide , Barbara graduated from Hollywood High School in 1966, but David Carradine, in his autobiography, said she dropped out of high school after she began acting. Hershey's acting debut, three episodes of Gidget ,
1482-455: A second British Academy Film Award nomination for Darren Aronofsky 's Black Swan (2010). Establishing a reputation early in her career as a hippie , Hershey experienced conflict between her personal life and her acting goals. Her career suffered a decline during a six-year relationship with actor David Carradine , with whom she had a child. She experimented with a change in stage name to Barbara Seagull . During this time, her personal life
1560-581: A two-scene cameo role as the Contessa in the mini-series, Daniel Deronda. Hershey continued to appear on television during the 2000s, including a season on the series The Mountain . In 2008, she replaced Megan Follows in the role of Anne Shirley in Anne of Green Gables: A New Beginning , the fourth in a series of made-for-TV films based on the character. Hershey appeared as an American actress, Mrs. Hubbard, in an adaptation of Agatha Christie 's Murder on
1638-415: A young woman afflicted with dissociative identity disorder earned her an Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Special Program – Drama or Comedy in 1977 and enabled her to break through the typecasting of her sitcom work. In 1977, Field co-starred with Burt Reynolds , Jackie Gleason , and Jerry Reed in the year's second-highest-grossing film , Smokey and the Bandit . In 1979, she played
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#17328022961831716-413: Is a person who jumps back and forth between features and television very easily." She starred in another TV miniseries in 1993, succeeding Anjelica Huston as Clara Allen in the sequel series Return to Lonesome Dove . She was nominated for a Golden Satellite Award for another TV appearance, The Staircase (1998). Between 1999 and 2000, she played Dr. Francesca Alberghetti in 22 season-six episodes of
1794-561: Is always blunt and unpleasant—never liberating and exhilarating, as the New Violence is supposed to be." A pictorial recreating sexually explicit scenes from the movie appeared in Playboy magazine in 1972. Hershey's experience with Scorsese was extended to another major role for her 16 years later in The Last Temptation of Christ (1988) as Mary Magdalene . During the filming of Boxcar Bertha , Hershey had introduced Scorsese to
1872-464: 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 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". Hershey won an Emmy and
1950-466: Is an American actress. Known for her extensive work on screen and stage , she has received many accolades throughout her career spanning six decades, including two Academy Awards , two Golden Globe Awards , and three Primetime Emmy Awards , in addition to nominations for a Tony Award and two British Academy Film Awards . She was presented with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 2014,
2028-919: Is located in front of the Hollywood Wax Museum . In January 2015, it was announced that she would co-host TCM . The same year, Field portrayed the titular character in Hello, My Name Is Doris , for which she was nominated for the Critics' Choice Movie Award for Best Actress in a Comedy . In 2017, Field reprised her role as Amanda Wingfield in The Glass Menagerie on Broadway at the Belasco Theatre . Performances began on February 7, 2017, in previews, and officially opened on March 9. The production closed on May 21, 2017, after 85 performance and 31 previews. Field had previously played
2106-465: Is on trial for murdering a young African American girl. The film, which was based on Pete Dexter 's 1988 National Book Award -winning novel, featured Hopper and Hershey enacting a graphic rape scene that the actress found difficult to view. The picture was described as a "dramatic reach deep into the dark hollows of racism, abuse and murder." Paris Trout was nominated for five Prime Time Emmy Awards, including nods for both Hershey and Hopper. Later in
2184-680: The ABC drama series Brothers & Sisters (2006–2011), Field won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series . She portrayed Mary Todd Lincoln in Lincoln (2012), for which she received an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress nomination. She portrayed Aunt May in The Amazing Spider-Man (2012) and its 2014 sequel . Other roles include in the films Hello, My Name Is Doris (2015), and 80 for Brady (2023), as well as in
2262-537: The Academy Award for Best Actress . Field appeared with Reynolds in three more films: The End , Hooper , and Smokey and the Bandit II . In 1981, she continued to change her image, playing a foul-mouthed prostitute opposite Tommy Lee Jones in the South-set film Back Roads . She was nominated for a Golden Globe for the 1981 drama Absence of Malice and the 1982 comedy Kiss Me Goodbye . In
2340-464: The Actors Studio with acting teacher Lee Strasberg . Strasberg became a mentor to Field, helping her move past her television image of the girl next door. During this period, Field divorced her first husband in 1975. Soon after studying with Strasberg, Field landed the title role in the 1976 television film Sybil , based on the book by Flora Rheta Schreiber . Her dramatic portrayal of
2418-717: The Berlinale Camera award at the 46th Berlin International Film Festival for her role as a grieving vigilante mother in director John Schlesinger 's film Eye for an Eye . In 1997, Field guest starred on the King of the Hill episode "Hilloween", in which she voiced religious woman Junie Harper, who contends with Hank Hill ( Mike Judge ) to ban Halloween. She co-starred with Natalie Portman in Where
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2496-552: The Cannes Film Festival for Shy People and for her appearance as anti-apartheid activist Diana Roth in A World Apart (1988). Her character in the latter film was based on Ruth First . Also in the 1980s, she portrayed Errol Flynn's first wife, actress Lili Damita , in the TV movie adaptation of My Wicked, Wicked Ways: The Legend of Errol Flynn (1985), which was based on Flynn's autobiography. She also played
2574-804: The Global Leadership Awards six times. A Democrat, Field supported Hillary Clinton 's bid for the Democratic Party nomination in the 2008 presidential election , and Kamala Harris’s 2024 presidential campaign . Field is also an advocate for gay rights, and won the Human Rights Campaign 's Ally for Equality Award in 2012. Her youngest son, Samuel Greisman, is gay. Field was arrested on December 13, 2019, while attending Jane Fonda 's weekly Friday climate change protests in Washington, D.C. Having undergone
2652-647: The Marvel Comics films The Amazing Spider-Man (2012) as well as the 2014 sequel . Field's widely praised portrayal of Mary Todd Lincoln in Steven Spielberg 's film Lincoln , also in 2012, brought her Best Supporting Actress Award nominations at the Oscars , Golden Globes , BAFTA , Screen Actors Guild , and Critics' Choice . On May 5, 2014, Field received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for her contributions to motion pictures. Her star
2730-693: The NBC television film Sybil (1976). Her film debut was as an extra in Moon Pilot (1962) followed by starring roles in The Way West (1967), Stay Hungry (1976), Smokey and the Bandit (1977), Heroes (1977), The End (1978), and Hooper (1978). She won two Academy Awards for Best Actress for Norma Rae (1979), and Places in the Heart (1984). Other notable roles include in Smokey and
2808-643: The National Medal of Arts in 2014, the Kennedy Center Honor in 2019, and the Screen Actors Guild Life Achievement Award in 2023. Field began her career on television, starring in the comedies Gidget (1965–1966), The Flying Nun (1967–1970), and The Girl with Something Extra (1973–1974). She received the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Limited Series or Movie for
2886-531: The Netflix limited series Maniac (2018). She made her professional stage debut replacing Mercedes Ruehl in the original Broadway production of Edward Albee 's The Goat, or Who Is Sylvia? in 2002. Field returned to the stage after an absence of 15 years with the 2017 revival of Tennessee Williams 's The Glass Menagerie , for which she received a nomination for the Tony Award for Best Actress in
2964-540: The Nikos Kazantzakis novel on which the latter film was based. That collaboration resulted in an Academy Award nomination for the director and a Golden Globe nod for Hershey. By the mid-1970s, Hershey concluded, "I've been so tied up with David [Carradine] that people have forgotten that I am me. I spend 50 percent of my time working with David." She had, in 1974, guest-starred in a two-part episode of Carradine's television series Kung Fu . She played, under
3042-531: The 1969 Glenn Ford Western Heaven with a Gun . On the set, she met and began a romantic relationship with actor David Carradine, who later starred in the television series Kung Fu (see Personal life ). In the same year, she acted in the controversial drama Last Summer , which was based on Evan Hunter 's eponymous novel. In this film, Hershey played Sandy, the "heavy" who influences two young men (played by Bruce Davison and Richard Thomas ) to rape another girl, Rhoda (played by Catherine Burns ). Though
3120-507: The 1984 drama Places in the Heart , she starred as Edna Spalding, a farm widow struggling to weather the Great Depression . She won her second Golden Globe Award and second Oscar . Field's acceptance speech has since been both admired as earnest and parodied as excessive, mainly the line, "And I can't deny the fact that you like me...right now...you like me! (applause) Thank you!" Field later parodied herself when she delivered
3198-502: The 2002 series The Court . Field's directorial career began with the television film The Christmas Tree (1996). In 1998, she directed the episode "The Original Wives' Club" of the critically acclaimed TV miniseries From the Earth to the Moon , also playing a minor role as Trudy, the wife of astronaut Gordon Cooper . In 2000, she directed the feature film Beautiful . Field was
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3276-501: The Bandit II (1980), Absence of Malice (1981), Kiss Me Goodbye (1982), Murphy's Romance (1985), Steel Magnolias (1989), Soapdish (1991), Mrs. Doubtfire (1993), and Forrest Gump (1994). In the 2000s, Field returned to television with a recurring role on the NBC medical drama ER , for which she won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Drama Series in 2001. For her role of Nora Walker in
3354-656: The Best Supporting Actress award from the National Society of Film Critics for her role as Madame Serena Merle in that picture. In 1995, Last of the Dogmen , co-starring Tom Berenger , was released through Savoy Pictures . In 1999, Hershey starred in an independent film called Drowning on Dry Land ; during production she met co-star Naveen Andrews , with whom she began a romantic relationship that lasted until 2010. In 2001, Hershey appeared in
3432-536: The Heart Is (2000), and appeared opposite Reese Witherspoon in Legally Blonde 2: Red, White & Blonde . Field had a recurring role on ER in the 2000–2001 season as Dr. Abby Lockhart 's mother, Maggie, who suffers from bipolar disorder , a role for which she won an Emmy Award in 2001. After her critically acclaimed stint on the show, she returned to the role in 2003 and 2006. She also starred in
3510-712: The Los Angeles Film Critics Award for Best Supporting Actress. She has won two Best Actress awards at the Cannes Film Festival for her roles in Shy People (1987) and A World Apart (1988). She was featured in Woody Allen 's Hannah and Her Sisters (1986), for which she was nominated for the British Academy Film Award for Best Supporting Actress and Garry Marshall 's melodrama Beaches (1988), and she earned
3588-800: The Orient Express for the British television series Poirot (starring David Suchet ), which aired in the United States on Public Broadcast Service in July 2010. Also in 2010, Hershey co-starred in Darren Aronofsky 's acclaimed psychological thriller Black Swan (2010) opposite Natalie Portman and Mila Kunis . The following year, she co-starred in the James Wan horror film Insidious (2011). From 2012 to 2013, she had
3666-675: The Season One DVD release, Field said that she thoroughly enjoyed Gidget but hated The Flying Nun because she was not treated with respect by the show's directors. Field was then typecast , finding respectable roles difficult to obtain. In 1971, Field starred in the ABC television film Maybe I'll Come Home in the Spring , playing a discouraged teen runaway who returns home with a bearded, drug-abusing hippie (played by David Carradine ). She made several guest television appearances through
3744-444: The award ceremony) occurred because "some language during the live broadcast may have been considered inappropriate by some viewers. As a result, Fox's broadcast standards executives determined it appropriate to drop sound and picture during those portions of the show." Field is an advocate for women's rights . She has served on the board of directors of Vital Voices Global Partnership , an international women's NGO, and has co-hosted
3822-537: The camera, leaving it up to the viewer to make sense of these off-kilter, self-serving, yet frequently humorous accounts of the family story. By the end of the day, more than a teenager has been put to rest. Hope beckons. The film won the Visionary Award at the Boston Film Festival . Barbara Hershey Barbara Lynn Herzstein , better known as Barbara Hershey (born February 5, 1948),
3900-572: The classic leotard and bunny-ears outfit on the cover. That year, she received the Women in Film Crystal Award . For her role as matriarch M'Lynn in the film version of Steel Magnolias (1989), she was nominated for a 1990 Golden Globe Award for Best Actress. In the early 1990s, Field had supporting roles in a number of films. These included Disney 's live-action film Homeward Bound: The Incredible Journey (1993), where she voiced
3978-522: The comedic Tune in Tomorrow . In 1991, Hershey played Hanna Trout, the wife of the title character in Paris Trout (1991), a made-for-cable television movie. In this Showtime production, Hershey collaborated again with A Killing in a Small Town director Stephen Gyllenhaal to play a woman who has an affair with her husband's lawyer. Her husband, an abusive bigot (played by Dennis Hopper ),
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#17328022961834056-450: The comedy movie 80 for Brady , which starred NFL quarterback Tom Brady along with fellow actresses Jane Fonda , Lily Tomlin and Rita Moreno . Also in 2023, Field was named the 58th recipient of the Screen Actors Guild Life Achievement Award , which she was presented at the 29th Screen Actors Guild Awards . Field was married to Steven Craig from 1968 to 1975, though they separated in 1973. The couple had two sons: Peter Craig ,
4134-571: The direction of Carradine, a love interest to his character, Kwai Chang Caine , during his time at the Shaolin temple . She also appeared in two of Carradine's independent directorial projects, You and Me (1975) and Americana (1983), both of which had been filmed in 1973. Her father, Arnold Herzstein, also appeared in Americana . She publicly acknowledged the desire to be recognized in her own right. Later, in 1974, she did just that, winning
4212-534: The early diagnosis of such conditions through technology such as bone-density scans. In 2005, Field received the Golden Plate Award of the American Academy of Achievement presented in recognition of her lifetime of contributions to the arts as well as her dedication as a social activist. During her acceptance speech at the 2007 Emmy Awards , when she won for Outstanding Lead Actress in
4290-414: The film, directed by Frank Perry , received an X rating for the graphic rape scene, Burns earned a Best Supporting Actress Oscar nomination for her performance. During the filming of Last Summer, a seagull was killed. "In one scene," Hershey explained, "I had to throw the bird in the air to make her fly. We had to reshoot the scene over and over again. I could tell the bird was tired. Finally, when
4368-463: The line (often misquoted as "You like me, you really like me!") in a Charles Schwab commercial. In 1985, she co-starred with James Garner in the romantic comedy Murphy's Romance . The following year, Field appeared on the cover of the March 1986 issue of Playboy magazine, in which she was the interview subject. She did not appear as a pictorial subject in the magazine, although she did wear
4446-409: The love interest to Gene Hackman's character in the basketball film Hoosiers (1986). Barbara Cloud of the Pittsburgh Press gave attribution to Hershey for starting a trend when she had collagen injected into her lips for her role in Beaches (1988). Humorist Erma Bombeck said of the movie, which also starred Bette Midler , "I have no idea what Beaches was all about. All I could focus on
4524-456: The medical TV drama Chicago Hope . Hershey co-starred with Joe Pesci as a nightclub owner in the film drama The Public Eye (1992) and as the abused estranged wife of a homicidal Michael Douglas in the thriller Falling Down (1993). Among the other feature films in which she appeared during the 1990s was Jane Campion 's adaptation of the Henry James novel The Portrait of a Lady (1996). Hershey earned an Oscar nomination and won
4602-410: The mid-1970s, including a role on the Western Alias Smith and Jones , a popular series starring Gidget co-star Pete Duel . She also appeared in the episode "Whisper" on the thriller Night Gallery . In 1973, Field was cast in a starring role opposite John Davidson in the series The Girl with Something Extra that aired from 1973 to 1974. Following the series' cancellation, Field studied at
4680-400: The name "Seagull" because the producers were not in favor of the billing. In 1970, Hershey played Tish Grey in The Baby Maker , a film that explored surrogate motherhood . Criticizing the directing and writing of James Bridges, critic Shirley Rigby said of the "bizarre" film, "Only the performances in the film save it from being a total travesty." Rigby went on to say, "Barbara Hershey is
4758-515: The only guests were their two mothers and Hershey's then 19-year-old son, Tom (né Free) Carradine. The couple separated and divorced one year after the wedding. Hershey began dating actor Naveen Andrews in 1999. During a brief separation in 2005, Andrews fathered a child with another woman. In May 2010, after Andrews won sole custody of his son, the couple announced that they had ended their 10-year relationship six months earlier. Sally Field Sally Margaret Field (born November 6, 1946)
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#17328022961834836-442: The part, Hershey had a phone conversation with Montgomery. Many of the names of the real-life principals in the case were changed for the movie. The film's alternative title was Evidence of Love , the name of a 1984 book about the case. Also in 1990, Hershey drew upon what Woody Allen once described as her "erotic overtones", portraying a woman who falls in love with her much younger nephew by marriage, played by Keanu Reeves , in
4914-428: The psychological thriller Lantana . She was the only American in a mostly Australian cast, which included Kerry Armstrong , Anthony LaPaglia , and Geoffrey Rush . Film writer Sheila Johnson said the film was "one of the best to emerge from Australia in years." Another thriller followed: 11:14 (2003) also featured Rachael Leigh Cook , Patrick Swayze , Hilary Swank , and Colin Hanks . In 2002, she appeared in
4992-486: The rest of the 1970s, however, she was appearing in made-for-TV movies that were described as "forgettable", like Flood! (1976), Sunshine Christmas (1977), and The Glitter Palace (1977), in which she played a lesbian. Hershey landed a role in Richard Rush's The Stunt Man (1980), marking a return to the big screen after four years and earning her critical praise. Hershey felt that she would be forever in debt to Rush for fighting with financiers to allow her
5070-447: The role in the Kennedy Center production in 2004. She was nominated for a Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play for her performance. Her memoir, In Pieces , was published by Grand Central Publishing in September 2018. Field returned to episodic television in 2018, starring in the Netflix miniseries Maniac . Subsequently, in 2020, Field starred in the AMC series Dispatches from Elsewhere . In 2023, Field co-starred in
5148-435: The role of Lee in Hannah and Her Sisters (1986). In addition to a Manhattan apartment, Hershey bought an antique home in rural Connecticut. The Allen picture won three Academy Awards and a Golden Globe. The film also earned Hershey a BAFTA nomination for Best Actress in a Supporting Role. She described her part as "a wonderful gift". Hershey followed Hannah and Her Sisters with back-to-back wins for Best Actress at
5226-465: The role of Sassy. In Mrs. Doubtfire (1993), she played the wife of Robin Williams 's character and the love interest of Pierce Brosnan 's character. She then played Tom Hanks 's mother in Forrest Gump (1994), even though she was only 10 years older than Hanks, with whom she had co-starred six years earlier in Punchline . For Forrest Gump, she received BAFTA and SAG nominations. Field's other 1990s films included Not Without My Daughter ,
5304-553: The scene was finished, the director, Frank Perry, told me the bird had broken her neck on the last throw." Hershey felt responsible for the bird's death and changed her stage name to "Seagull" as a tribute to the creature. "I felt her spirit enter me," she later explained. "It was the only moral thing to do." The name change was not positively received. When she was offered a part opposite Timothy Bottoms in The Crazy World of Julius Vrooder (1974) (or Vrooder's Hooch ), Hershey had to forfeit half her salary, $ 25,000, to be billed under
5382-580: The show's fifth season, most notably its landmark 100th episode. In A&E 's series Damien , Hershey portrayed series regular Ann Rutledge, the world's most powerful woman, who has been given the task to make sure Damien fulfills his destiny as the Antichrist. The role marks Hershey's most recent TV gig following Once Upon a Time, The Mountain, Chicago Hope , and Lifetime's Left to Die TV movie. Hershey's more recent films include The Manor (2021) and 9 Bullets (2022). In 1968, Hershey met David Carradine while they were working on Heaven with
5460-525: The story of why she adopted the name "Seagull" so many times that it had lost its meaning. By the time Hershey was 42 in 1990, she was described by columnist Luaina Lee as a "private person who was mired in some heavy publicity when she first became a professional actress." Yardena Arar, writing for the Los Angeles Daily News , confirmed that Hershey had become a private person by 1990. On August 8, 1992, Hershey married artist Stephen Douglas. The ceremony took place at her home in Oxford, Connecticut , where
5538-423: The titular union organizer in Norma Rae , a film that established her as a dramatic actress. Vincent Canby , reviewing the film for The New York Times , wrote: " Norma Rae is a seriously concerned contemporary drama, illuminated by some very good performances and one, Miss Field's, that is spectacular." For her role in Norma Rae , Field won the Best Female Performance Prize at the Cannes Film Festival and
5616-504: The year, Hershey played an attorney defending her college roommate for the murder of her husband in the suspenseful whodunit Defenseless (1991). Because of her frequent television appearances, by the end of 1991, Hershey was accused of "selling out to the small screen". In 1992, Hershey appeared with Jane Alexander in the ABC miniseries Stay the Night (1992), prompting Associated Press writer Jerry Buck to write, "Barbara Hershey
5694-664: Was Barbara Hershey's lips. She looked like she stopped off at a gas station and someone said, 'Your lips are down 30 pounds. Better let me hit 'em with some air. ' " In 1990, Hershey won an Emmy and a Golden Globe for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Miniseries or Special for her role as Candy Morrison in A Killing in a Small Town , which was based on Candy Montgomery 's acquittal for the death of Betty Gore. Montgomery had killed Gore on Friday, June 13, 1980, in Gore's Wylie, Texas , home, by hitting her 41 times with an ax. The jury determined that she did so in self-defense. In preparation for
5772-557: Was followed by the short-lived television series The Monroes (1966), which also featured Michael Anderson, Jr. By this point, she had adopted the stage name "Barbara Hershey". Although Hershey said the series helped her career, she expressed some frustration with her role, saying: "One week I was strong, the next, weak". While on the series, Hershey garnered several other roles, including one in Doris Day 's final feature film, With Six You Get Eggroll . In 1968, Hershey worked in
5850-557: Was highly publicized and ridiculed. Her acting career was not well established until she separated from Carradine and changed her stage name back to Hershey. In 1990, later in her career, it was reported that she began to keep her personal life private. Barbara Lynn Herzstein was born in Hollywood , the daughter of Arnold Nathan Herzstein, a horse-racing columnist, and Melrose Herzstein ( née Moore). Her father's parents were Jewish emigrants from Hungary and Russia, while her mother,
5928-484: Was molested during it. Field got her start on television as the boy-crazy surfer girl in the sitcom Gidget (1965–1966). The show was not an initial success and was cancelled after a single season; however, summer reruns garnered respectable ratings, making the show a belated success. Wanting to find a new starring vehicle for Field, ABC next produced The Flying Nun with Field cast as Sister Bertrille for three seasons, from 1967 to 1970. In an interview included on
6006-590: Was nine years old in 1982. The relationship fell apart around the time of Carradine's 1974 burglary arrest, after he had begun an affair with Season Hubley , who had guest-starred in Kung Fu . During this period, Hershey changed her stage name to "Seagull". In 1979, a blunt newspaper article from the Knight News Service referenced this period of her life, saying of her acting career that "it looked as if she blew it." The article referred to Hershey as
6084-537: Was sexually abused by Mahoney during her childhood. As a teen, Field attended Portola Middle School and Birmingham High School in Van Nuys , where she was a cheerleader . Her class of 1964 classmates included financier Michael Milken and talent agent Michael Ovitz , while actress Cindy Williams was a year behind Field. Field has stated that when she was seventeen she had an illegal abortion in Mexico, and
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