Acting Roles
Hearst has dabbled in a career as an actress.
- Her notoriety intersected with the criminal obsessions and camp sensibilities of filmmaker John Waters, who has used Hearst in numerous small roles in films including Cry-Baby, Serial Mom, Pecker, Cecil B. DeMented, and A Dirty Shame.
- Hearst appeared in the films Bio-Dome and Second Best.
- Hearst supplied the voice for the character Haffa Dozen, an ex-stripper appearing on the October 19, 2005, episode of the Sci-Fi Channel's animated TV series Tripping the Rift.
- She appeared in an episode of The Adventures of Pete & Pete as Mrs. Kretchmar, the nicest housewife in the world.
- Notably playing against type, Hearst played a crack-addicted prostitute on an episode of the comedic Son of the Beach.
- Hearst's voice was used as a caller in the Frasier episode, Frasier Crane's Day Off in 1994.
- She appeared as Anthony Clark's mother on the sitcom Boston Common.
- She appeared in a season 3 episode of Veronica Mars portraying Selma Hearst, the granddaughter of the founder of Hearst College and college board member, who had faked her own kidnapping. Although Hearst College is fictional, it strongly echoes the real Stanford family history, with the founder being a railroad tycoon rather than a media baron.
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