![]() Avg.User Rating: Rate this person: Actor Born: September 26, 1948 in Marshalltown, IA 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... Full Biography
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