Mary Beth Hurt
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Mary Beth Hurt (born Mary Supinger on September 26, 1946 in Marshalltown, Iowa) is a critically acclaimed stage and screen actress.
She studied drama at the University of Iowa and at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts. She 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 and Benefactors. She won an Obie 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 Head Over Heels (aka 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 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.
Her childhood babysitter was actress Jean Seberg, also a Marshalltown native. Hurt played the role of Seberg, in voice-over, in Mark Rappaport's 1995 documentary From the Journals of Jean Seberg.
[edit] Selected filmography
- Lady in the Water (2006)
- The Exorcism of Emily Rose (2005)
- Red Dragon (2002) (cameo)
- The Family Man (2000)
- Autumn in New York (2000)
- Bringing Out the Dead (1999)
- Affliction (1997)
- Boys Life 2 (1997)
- The Age of Innocence (1993)
- My Boyfriend's Back (1993)
- Six Degrees of Separation (1993)
- Light Sleeper (1992)
- Slaves of New York (1989) by James Ivory
- Parents (1989) by Bob Balaban
- Compromising Positions (1985)
- D.A.R.Y.L. (1985)
- The World According to Garp (1982)
- A Change of Seasons (1980)
- The Five Forty Eight (1979/TV) by James Ivory
- Head Over Heels (1979) by Joan Micklin Silver
- Interiors (1978) by Woody Allen
