Barbara Hershey is the American actor who portrays Cora on ABC's Once Upon a Time and Once Upon a Time in Wonderland. Barbara Lynn Herzstein,[3] professionally known as Barbara Hershey, was born on February 5, 1948 in Hollywood, California.[1] Her parents are Arkansas native Melrose Moore of Presbyterian Irish background, and New York-born horse racing statistician Arnold Nathan Herzstein,[3] who has Hungarian and Russian roots.[4] As the youngest of three siblings, Barbara was a quiet…
