Josh's mother who seeks Elise's help to protect her family from generational curses.
Erica Sayers is Nina Sayers’s overprotective mother and a former ballerina. She objects when Nina goes out with Lily, becomes increasingly alarmed by Nina’s injuries and unstable behavior, and tries to stop her from performing. Their physical confrontation shows how Nina’s pursuit of perfection strains their relationship.
Josh's mother who harbors dark secrets about her son's childhood and spiritual gifts.
Josh's mother, central to uncovering family secrets and past hauntings.
Beth is D-Fens's estranged former wife and Adele's mother. Because she has a restraining order against D-Fens, she alerts the police after hearing his call and flees their home with Adele. At the pier, she insists that he leave and throws his gun into the ocean when Prendergast creates an opportunity.
Frederick's partner and a doomsday prepper. She cares for the injured Lady and goes to get medicine. She escapes the farmhouse during the confrontation with the Demon, later flags down the police vehicle transporting the Lady, and is promptly shot and killed by her.
Carla is a single mother whose life is consumed by repeated assaults from an invisible entity in and around her Los Angeles home. She seeks psychiatric help, paranormal investigation, and ultimately confronts the entity during an experiment, remaining defiant despite disbelief and danger.
Lee is Hannah's sister and Frederick's longtime partner, having lived with the reclusive artist for five years. Dissatisfied with their intellectual and sexual relationship, she leaves him and begins an affair with Elliot. She eventually ends that affair when Elliot will not commit, later moving into a new marriage.
A prostitute whom Jesus saves from stoning. She later appears in Jesus' visionary dream sequence as the woman he marries and shares a life with before her death.
Hillary Whitney Essex is CC Bloom's lifelong friend, a San Francisco heiress and human rights lawyer who works with the ACLU. She becomes a single mother to Victoria, develops viral cardiomyopathy, and dies after CC comes to be with her, leaving CC to raise Victoria.
A charming woman who befriends Isabel and orchestrates her marriage to Gilbert Osmond. She deeply regrets the union after witnessing Gilbert's true nature. Later, she reveals to Isabel that Ralph Touchett was the one who secured her inheritance, and attempts to reconcile with Isabel in a convent before Isabel's departure.
Harriet Bird is a woman with a murderous fixation on champion athletes. After watching Roy Hobbs strike out The Whammer at a carnival wager, she follows him to Chicago and shoots him in the stomach before throwing herself from a hotel window. The lasting injury derails Roy's early baseball career.
Barbara Hershey has 110 screen credits in a career dating back to 1953. Their work spans 2 cinematic universes — most prominently Insidious with 3 titles. Signature works include Black Swan, Insidious, Insidious: Chapter 2. Explore the interactive character relationship maps on each title page to trace how their roles connect across franchises.
Universe traveler — spans 2 universes
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