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Barbara Hershey

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Actress

The Resume

    (February 5, 1948- )
    Oscar nominee for best supporting actress (The Portrait of a Lady, 1997)
    Won an Emmy (1990) and a Golden Globe (1991)

Why she might be annoying:

    While filming 'Last Summer' a trained seagull was accidentally killed. She felt the spirit of the bird enter her soul and so she changed her name to 'Seagull' (1969).
    She named her son 'Free.'
    Rumors were spread that she wanted to eat her son's placenta.
    She smokes.

Why she might not be annoying:

    She was secretly blacklisted during the '70s backlash against flower power and hippie thoughts.
    She freely appears nude in many movies.
    She is probably the first to expose her breast on US Network TV when she casually breast fed her son during a live interview on the Dick Cavett Show (1973).
    She claims her love scenes with her lover, David Carradine, were real in 'Boxcar Bertha.'
    She is the first person to win back to back Cannes awards for best actress (1987, 88).
    She ranked #23 in Celebrity Sleuth 25 Sexiest Women of 1990

Featured in the following Annoying Collections:

Year In Review:

    For 2024, as of last weekly ranking, Out of 4 Votes: 25.00% Annoying
    In 2023, Out of 17 Votes: 11.76% Annoying
    In 2022, Out of 15 Votes: 13.33% Annoying
    In 2021, Out of 29 Votes: 37.93% Annoying
    In 2020, Out of 169 Votes: 42.01% Annoying
    In 2019, Out of 21 Votes: 52.38% Annoying
    In 2018, Out of 19 Votes: 52.63% Annoying
    In 2017, Out of 25 Votes: 60.0% Annoying
    In 2016, Out of 30 Votes: 83.33% Annoying
    In 2015, Out of 8 Votes: 37.50% Annoying
    In 2014, Out of 53 Votes: 47.17% Annoying
    In 2013, Out of 62 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
    In 2012, Out of 47 Votes: 51.06% Annoying
    In 2011, Out of 137 Votes: 53.28% Annoying
    In 2010, Out of 48 Votes: 45.83% Annoying
    In 2009, Out of 170 Votes: 36.47% Annoying
    In 2008, Out of 185 Votes: 54.05% Annoying
    In 2007, Out of 771 Votes: 43.58% Annoying
    In 2006, Out of 331 Votes: 40.18% Annoying
    In 2005, Out of 1281 Votes: 42.54% Annoying
    In 2004, Out of 355 Votes: 50.70% Annoying
    In 2003, Out of 704 Votes: 56.53% Annoying
    In 2002, Out of 1941 Votes: 52.55% Annoying
    In 2001, Out of 5285 Votes: 45.20% Annoying