Mary Beth Hurt

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Mary Beth Hurt
Born October 26, 1946(1946-10-26)
Marshalltown, Iowa
Occupation Actor

Mary Beth Hurt (born September 26, 1946)[1] is an American actor of stage and screen.

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[edit] Biography

[edit] Personal life

Hurt was born Mary Beth Supinger in 1946 in Marshalltown, Iowa, the daughter of Delores Lenore (née Andre) and Forrest Clayton Supinger.[2] Her childhood babysitter was actress Jean Seberg, also a Marshalltown native. Hurt studied drama at the University of Iowa and at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts.

Hurt was married to actor William Hurt for 10 years (from 1971 to 1981). After they divorced, she married director and writer Paul Schrader in 1983, and they have a daughter and a son.

[edit] Stage career

Hurt made her New York stage debut in 1974. Hurt was nominated for three Tony awards for her Broadway performances in Trelawny of the 'Wells', Crimes of the Heart (for which she won an Obie) and Benefactors. She won an award for the role of Meg in Beth Henley's Pulitzer Prize-winning play Crimes of the Heart.

[edit] Films

Hurt made her film debut in Woody Allen's Interiors as Joey, the middle of three sisters dealing with the emotional fallout of a family's disintegration and their mother's descent into mental illness. Other roles include Laura in Chilly Scenes of Winter, as Helen Holm Garp in The World According to Garp, and as Regina Beaufort in Martin Scorsese's The Age of Innocence.

[edit] Voice work

Hurt played Jean Seberg, in voice-over, in Mark Rappaport's 1995 documentary From the Journals of Jean Seberg.

[edit] Filmography

[edit] References

  1. ^ Born in 1946 as per Intelius
  2. ^ Mary Beth Hurt Biography

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