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Mary Beth Hurt

 
Actor: Mary Beth Hurt
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  • Born: Sep 26, 1948 in Marshalltown, Iowa
  • Occupation: Actor
  • Active: '70s-2000s
  • Major Genres: Drama, Comedy Drama
  • Career Highlights: Six Degrees of Separation, Head Over Heels, Affliction
  • First Major Screen Credit: Interiors (1978)

Biography

American actress Mary Beth Hurt, born Mary Beth Supinger, trained for the theater at New York University's School of the Arts. She then spent a year in London, where she performed with the Questers, a well-known amateur theater troupe. In 1972 she made her professional debut with the New York Shakespeare Festival, then went on to a very successful stage career on Broadway and elsewhere; she won two Obie awards (one for her work in the play Crimes of the Heart) and was nominated for a Tony for Trelawney of the Wells. Her theater work impressed filmmaker Woody Allen, who cast her in a supporting role in her screen debut, Interiors (1978), Allen's first non-comedy. This won her the co-lead in Joan Micklin Silver's Head Over Heels (1979). Hurt has remained primarily a stage actress, appearing in films every two years or so. From 1972-82 she was married to actor William Hurt. She is now married to writer-director Paul Schrader, and co-starred in his film Light Sleeper (1992). ~ All Movie Guide
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Mary Beth Hurt (born September 26, 1946)[1] is an American actress of stage and screen.

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Biography

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.

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.

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.

Voice work

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

Filmography

References

  1. ^ Born in 1946 as per Intelius and Webster's Quotations, Facts and Phrases By Inc Icon Group International, p. 419
  2. ^ Mary Beth Hurt Biography

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