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Born and raised in a small bungalow in Hollywood, Barbara
Hershey (born Barbara Herzstein) had dreams of being in movies as a little girl.
Quiet and withdrawn, she acted out stories in her back yard. Her major acting
debut was on "The Monroes" (1966), where she played Kathy. Her motion
picture career began with With Six You Get Eggroll (1968). For the next few
years, she was typecast as a "wild child" and tried to live up to
that image. She had a rocky relationship with David Carradine, with whom she
had a child they named Free. From 1972 to 1974 she changed her name from Barbara
Hershey to Barbara Seagull. Her career was resurrected when she appeared in
the miniseries "From Here to Eternity" (1979) (mini) and especially
the feature The Stunt Man (1980). In that film she played an actress on the
edge, which may have been influenced by her own life. Based upon her strong
performance, other roles in quality films followed: The Right Stuff (1983);
The Natural (1984); Hoosiers (1986) and Beaches (1988). A two-time winner of
the Cannes Film Festival Best Actress Award, for her work in Shy People (1987)
and A World Apart (1988), she also won an Emmy for her performance in A Killing
in a Small Town (1990) (TV).
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