Trivia

Mother, with David Carradine, of son Tom Carradine.

Lived until late 2009 with her then-partner, actor Naveen Andrews from the TV series Lost (2004) , who is 21 years her junior.

She has one child, a son she named Free. He later changed his name to Tom. His father is David Carradine.

As of 2007, she is the only woman to be cast twice in a major role in a movie by Martin Scorsese. The two movies are La última tentación de Cristo (1988) and Bertha, ladrona y amante (1972).

Acted for several years as Barbara Seagull because of a seagull that was accidentally killed during the filming of "Last Summer." At the time, she said she felt she had absorbed the seagull's spirit.

As of 2014, she has appeared in three films which were nominated for the Best Picture Oscar: Los elegidos (1983), Hannah y sus hermanas (1986), and El cisne negro (2010).

The first (and, as of 2006, only) performer to win back-to-back acting awards at the Cannes Film Festival.

She gave the book of La última tentación de Cristo (1988) to Martin Scorsese while filming Bertha, ladrona y amante (1972) with him.

Was considered for the role of a dangerous obsessive woman in Atracción fatal (1987). She had played a similar role in El mejor (1984), where she stalks and shoots the hero, who loves a good woman played by Glenn Close who, ironically, beat out Hershey for the role in Atracción fatal (1987) in an against-type casting that made her a household name.

She has appeared in two films selected for the National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically or aesthetically" significant: Los elegidos (1983) and Hoosiers (1986).

Her five favourite films of all time are El mago de Oz (1939), Ladrones de bicicletas (1948), Dr. Insólito (1964), El toro salvaje (1980), and La balada de Narayama (1983).

Barbara's father, Arnold Nathan Herzstein, was Ashkenazi Jewish; her paternal 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.

Met ex-boyfriend Naveen Andrews on the set of Drowning on Dry Land (1999). They were together until late 2009, although they split for a brief time in 2005 during which Naveen fathered a child, Naveen Joshua.

She shares a birthday with her son's grandfather, John Carradine.

Was considered to play as Catherine Tramell in Bajos instintos (1992) but turned it down.

Member of the drill team and pom-pom squad in high school.

Dated Warren Beatty.

Daughter of Arnold Herzstein.

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