Mary Beth Hurt
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| Mary Beth Hurt | |
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| Born | September 26, 1946 Marshalltown, Iowa, U.S. |
Mary Beth Hurt (born September 26, 1946) is a critically acclaimed American stage and screen actress.
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[edit] Biography
[edit] Personal life
Hurt was born Mary Beth Supinger in Marshalltown, Iowa, the daughter of Delores Lenore (née Andre) and Forrest Clayton Supinger.[1] 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 Oscar-winning 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] Career
Hurt made her New York stage debut in 1974. Hurt was nominated for three Tony awards for her Broadway performances in Trelawney 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. Hurt made her film debut in Woody Allen's Interiors as Joey, the youngest of three sisters dealing with the emotional fallout of a family's disintegration and their mother's descent into mental illness. While she is well known for her debut, other standout performances include her roles as 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.
Hurt played Jean Seberg, in voice-over, in Mark Rappaport's 1995 documentary From the Journals of Jean Seberg.
[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)
- The Family Man (2000)
- 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)
- Red Dragon (2002)
- The Exorcism of Emily Rose (2005)
- Lady in the Water (2006)
- The Dead Girl (2006)
- Untraceable (2008)
