Mary Beth Hurt
Mary Beth Hurt (born September 26, 1946)[1] is an American actress of stage and screen.
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[edit] Biography
[edit] Personal life
Hurt was born Mary 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 Graduate Acting Program at the Tisch School of the Arts.[3]
[edit] Marriages
Hurt was married to actor William Hurt from 1971 to 1981. After that marriage ended in divorce she remarried, to American writer/film director Paul Schrader in 1983; they have a daughter and a son.[citation needed]
[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.
[edit] Films
Hurt made her film debut in Woody Allen's dramatic film 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 film roles include Laura in Chilly Scenes of Winter; 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.[citation needed]
[edit] Filmography
- Interiors (1978)
- Chilly Scenes of Winter (1979)
- The Five Forty-Eight (1979)
- A Change of Seasons (1980)
- The World According to Garp (1982)
- D.A.R.Y.L. (1985)
- Compromising Positions (1985)
- Parents (1989)
- Slaves of New York (1989)
- Light Sleeper (1992)
- Six Degrees of Separation (1993)
- My Boyfriend's Back (1993)
- The Age of Innocence (1993)
- Boys Life 2 (1997)
- Affliction (1997)
- Bringing Out the Dead (1999)
- Autumn in New York (2000)
- The Family Man (2000)
- Red Dragon (2002)
- The Exorcism of Emily Rose (2005)
- Lady in the Water (2006)
- The Dead Girl (2006)
- Untraceable (2008)
- Lebanon, Pa. (2010)
- Young Adult (2011)
[edit] References
- ^ Some sources inaccurately cite 1948 as her year of birth.
- ^ Mary Beth Hurt Film Reference biography
- ^ "NYU Graduate Acting Alumni". 2011. http://gradacting.tisch.nyu.edu/object/ga_alumbios.html. Retrieved 2011-12-01.
