Hershey, Barbara(Barbara Seagull; orig. Barbara Herzstein)

1948 – She was born on the 5th day of February this year in Hollywood, California to an Irish American mother and a Jewish American father who was a horseracing columnist, Hershey attended Hollywood High School.

1965 – Her debut was guest starring in three episodes of Gidget.

1966 – She followed up by being cast in the television series The Monroe’s in this year.

1967 – She also made a guest appearance on the hit series "Daniel Boone" the episode was titled, "The Kings Shilling".

1968 - Her feature film debut was in this year comedy film “With Six You Get Egg roll.”

1970 – Her film “The Baby Maker” explored the idea of surrogate motherhood many years before it became a mainstream reproductive option and reinforced her image as a free-spirited hippie.

1976 – She starred alongside Charlton Heston in The Last Hard Men. However, the hippie label soon became a career impediment and by the late 1970s, she was appearing in made-for-TV movies like Flood!

1981 - Her appearance in the horror film The Entity in this year, where she played a woman repeatedly raped by an unseen supernatural force - sufficiently impressed Michael Douglas to have him later fight to have her cast as his estranged wife in Falling Down.

1983 – She gained increased visibility with performance as Glennis Yeager, wife of test pilot Chuck Yeager, in Philip Kaufman's film, The Right Stuff.

1988 – For her role in this year Bette Midler melodrama Beaches, she injected collagen into her lips an act that drew negative media coverage.

1990 – She won an Emmy for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Miniseries or Special for her turn as real-life murderer Candy Morrison in A Killing in a Small Town.

1999 – She starred in Drowning on Dry Land with Naveen Andrews - with whom she entered into a romantic relationship.

2001 – She was part of a largely Australian ensemble cast for the critically successful Australian film Lantana, which also starred Kerry Armstrong, Anthony LaPaglia and Geoffrey Rush playing a troubled psychiatrist.

2004 – Her most recent screen credit was in this year Stephen King adaptation “Riding the Bullet.”

• "You have to choose where you look, and in making that choice you eliminate entire worlds."
• "When the Japanese mend broken objects they aggrandize the damage by filling the cracks with gold, because they believe that when something's suffered damage and has a history it becomes more beautiful."