FrameThrower · Actors · Barbara Hershey
Barbara Hershey
8 films · 448 frames · top-billed in 3 · 1982–2014
Born 5 February 1948 · Hollywood, California, USA
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 and comedies. She began acting at age 17 in 1965 but did not achieve much critical acclaim until the latter half of the 1980s. By that time, the Chicago Tribune referred to her as "one of America's finest actresses".
Hershey won an Emmy and a Golden Globe for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Miniseries/TV Film for her role in A Killing in a Small Town (1990).…
Awards
On FrameThrower we have: 8 films · 448 frames · top-billed in 3 · 1982–2014
- Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Miniseries or Television Film1990
- Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actress1988
- Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actress1987
- Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie1990
How their films are shot
Measured across 448 frames from the 8 films we hold. This is the look of the work Barbara takes, not a claim about any single frame — we index the cast of a film, never the people in a shot.
Across the 8 films we hold, 47% of their frames are night, 43% low key — the look of the work Barbara takes.
Time of day
Lighting
Shot size
Camera angle
Mood
Films in the library
Every poster opens that film — stills, cinematography notes and colour palette.
Often with
Shared films in this library, not a full filmography.
A reference database for filmmakers
FrameThrower is a fully machine-searchable film database and visual reference library — all 448 frames from Barbara Hershey's 8 films, and 5,000+ films besides, indexed frame by frame and readable by AI. Search it in plain language, from a reference image, or by colour; call it from an API, an MCP server or an SDK. It's the reference layer for making the next movie.