Tony Award-nominated actor Mary Beth Hurt has died at age 79.Hurt appeared in movies such as Interiors, The World According to Garp and Martin Scorseses 1993 adaptation of The Age of Innocence.She had been diagnosed with Alzheimers disease in 2015.
Mary Beth Hurt, a Tony Award-nominated actor who appeared in films including Interiors, The World According to Garp and The Age of Innocence, has died. She was 79.
Hurt died Saturday of Alzheimers disease , her daughter Molly Schrader announced Sunday in an Instagram post. Hurts husband, Oscar-nominated filmmaker Paul Schrader, confirmed to the Hollywood Reporter that she died at an assisted living facility in Jersey City, N.J.. She had been diagnosed with Alzheimers in 2015.
She was an actress, a wife, a sister, a mother, an aunt, a friend, and she took on all those rolls with grace and a kind ferocity, Molly Schrader wrote in her post . Although were grieving there is some comfort in knowing she is no longer suffering and is reunited with her sisters in peace.
Hurt made her New York stage debut in a 1973 in an off-Broadway production of As You Like It, according to Playbill . She made her Broadway debut in 1974, appearing in brief productions of Love for Love and The Rules of the Game. She appeared in 15 Broadway productions total over the course of her career.
While Hurt told the New York Times in 1989 that she was pleased with her career, she also said that theres not too much reward for doing theater in New York.
You cant make a living doing it, she told the outlet. I am happy with my career, but its very hard to maintain. I dont sing. I cant do musicals. The only way I can make a living doing theater is on Broadway. And its a terrible situation. There arent many straight plays on Broadway. And Broadway needs straight plays. They provide a special voice that shouldnt be stilled.
She earned her first Tony Award nomination in 1976 for portraying Rose Trelawny in Arthur Wing Pineros Trelawny of the Wells. Hurts two other nominations were for her roles in Beth Henleys Crimes of the Heart (1982) and Michael Frayns Benefactors (1986).
Hurt made her film debut in Woody Allens 1978 drama, Interiors, where she portrayed the directionless would-be artist Joey opposite her more successful siblings Renata and Flyn, played by Diane Keaton and Kristin Griffith, respectively. Her performance earned her a BAFTA nomination.
In The World According to Garp (1982), Hurt played Helen Holm, the eventual wife of Robin Williams titular T.S. Garp. She also appeared in Martin Scorseses adaptation of Edith Whartons The Age of Innocence (1993) and her husband Paul Schraders Light Sleeper (1992) and Affliction (1997).
Born Mary Beth Supinger in Marshalltown, Iowa, on Sept. 25, 1946, Hurt studied drama at the University of Iowa before pursuing graduate studies at New York University Tisch School of the Arts. She married actor William Hurt in 1971 and took his name before they divorced in 1982. She married Schrader, whom she met through a publicist, in 1983.
Mary Beth saved me, Schrader, who has been open about his trouble with drugs and alcohol in the 1980s, told the New Yorker in 2023. After moving her to a care facility in 2019 following her Alzheimers diagnosis, Schrader moved Hurt during the pandemic back to their New York lake house, where hed built her a greenhouse because she loved gardening.
One of Hurts childhood babysitters was fellow Marshalltown native Jean Seberg, a family acquaintance who would go on to star in films such as Jean-Luc Godards Breathless and Otto Premingers St. Joan before her tragic death in 1979 . Hurt played Seberg, in voiceover, in Mark Rappaports From the Journals of Jean Seberg (1995).
David Hare, who directed Hurt in The Secret Rapture, described her as a fine ensemble actress to the New York Times in 1989.
She has the best of the English and the best of the American traditions, Hare told the outlet. What marks English actors is that they can turn on a sixpence there isnt anything technically they cant do. Theyre supple, like musicians, and from the technical facility they acquire freedom. And in Mary Beths case there is a sort of improvisatory gift, a willingness to make the performance fresh every time.
Hurt is survived by her husband and two children, Molly and Sam.
曾获托尼奖提名的演员玛丽·贝丝·赫特逝世，享年79岁。赫特参演的电影包括《内心深处》、《盖普眼中的世界》以及马丁·斯科塞斯1993年执导的《纯真年代》。她于2015年被诊断出患有阿尔茨海默病。
曾出演《内心深处》《盖普眼中的世界》及《纯真年代》等影片，并获托尼奖提名的演员玛丽·贝丝·赫特逝世，享年79岁。
赫特于周六因阿尔茨海默病去世，其女儿莫莉·施拉德周日通过Instagram发文公布了这一消息。赫特的丈夫、奥斯卡提名电影制片人保罗·施拉德向《好莱坞报道者》证实，她是在新泽西州泽西市的一家辅助生活机构去世的。赫特于2015年被确诊患有阿尔茨海默病。
莫莉·施拉德（Molly Schrader）在文中写道："她既是演员、妻子、姐妹、母亲、姑姑，也是朋友，她以优雅和一种温柔的坚韧承担着所有这些角色。尽管我们深感悲痛，但想到她不再受苦，并得以与姐妹们在天堂安详团聚，心中也稍感慰藉。"
据《Playbill》报道，赫特于1973年在纽约外百老汇制作的《皆大欢喜》中首次登台亮相。1974年，她在百老汇首次亮相，参演了《爱的奉献》和《游戏规则》两部短剧。在她的职业生涯中，她总共参与了15部百老汇作品的演出。
尽管赫特在1989年告诉《纽约时报》她对职业生涯感到满意，但她也表示在纽约从事戏剧工作“回报并不丰厚”。
“靠这个谋生太难了，”她对媒体坦言，“我对自己的职业生涯感到满意，但维持现状非常困难。我不唱歌，也无法出演音乐剧。唯一能靠戏剧谋生的途径就是在百老汇演出。但现状很糟糕——百老汇缺少正统话剧，而这里恰恰需要这类作品。它们代表着一种不该被湮没的独特艺术表达。”
1976年，她因在亚瑟·温·皮内罗的戏剧《井边的特雷劳尼》中饰演罗斯·特雷劳尼一角，首次获得托尼奖提名。赫特另外两次提名分别因出演贝丝·亨利创作的《心之罪》（1982年）和迈克尔·弗雷恩的《施主》（1986年）中的角色而获得。
赫特在伍迪·艾伦1978年的电影《内心》中首次亮相银幕，饰演迷茫的准艺术家乔伊，与事业有成的姐妹雷娜塔和弗林形成鲜明对比，这两个角色分别由黛安·基顿和克里斯汀·格里菲斯扮演。她的表演为她赢得了英国电影学院奖提名。
在1982年的电影《盖普眼中的世界》中，赫特饰演了罗宾·威廉姆斯所饰主角T.S.盖普的最终伴侣海伦·霍姆。她还参演了马丁·斯科塞斯改编自伊迪丝·华顿小说的《纯真年代》（1993年），以及其丈夫保罗·施拉德执导的《迷途人生》（1992年）和《苦难》（1997年）。
赫特原名玛丽·贝丝·苏平格，1946年9月25日出生于爱荷华州马歇尔敦。她先在爱荷华大学攻读戏剧，后进入纽约大学蒂施艺术学院深造。1971年，她与演员威廉·赫特结婚并随夫姓，两人于1982年离婚。1983年，她通过一位公关人士结识了施拉德，并与之结为连理。
2023年，施拉德向《纽约客》坦言：“玛丽·贝思拯救了我。”他曾公开承认自己在1980年代深陷毒品与酒精问题。2019年玛丽·贝思被确诊阿尔茨海默病后，施拉德将她送至护理机构。疫情期间，他又将赫特接回他们位于纽约的湖畔住宅——因她酷爱园艺，施拉德特地为她建造了一座温室。
赫特幼时的一位保姆是同为马歇尔敦本地人的珍·茜宝，这位家族旧友后来曾主演让-吕克·戈达尔的《筋疲力尽》和奥托·普雷明格的《圣女贞德》等影片，直至197年不幸离世。1995年，赫特在马克·拉帕波特执导的《珍·茜宝日记》中为茜宝一角担任旁白配音。
1989年，曾执导《秘密狂喜》中赫特表演的大卫·黑尔向《纽约时报》评价她为“一位出色的群戏演员”。
“她兼具英式与美式传统的精髓，”黑尔向媒体表示。“英国演员的标志性特质在于他们能瞬间转变——技术上没有他们做不到的事。他们像音乐家一样灵活，通过技术纯熟获得表演自由。而玛丽·贝丝（Mary Beth）还有一种即兴天赋，总能让每次演出焕发新意。”
赫特的丈夫和两个孩子——莫莉和萨姆——仍在世。