Tributes have poured in from fans as tony-nominated actor Mary Beth Hurt has tragically died at age 79 – after a successful 40 year career and battle with Alzheimer’s disease.
Tony-nominated actor Mary Beth Hurt has died at 79. The actress has a successful 40 year career and was well known for her roles in the 1982 Robin Williams comedy-drama, The World According to Garp, and working with Martin Scorsese in The Age of Innocence and Bringing Out the Dead.
The three-time Tony-nominated actor’s death was announced on Facebook by Schrader and their daughter, Molly. The statement read: “She was an actress, a wife, a sister, a mother, an aunt, a friend, and she took on all those roles with grace and kind ferocity. Although we’re all grieving there is some comfort in knowing she is no longer suffering and reunited with her sisters in peace.”
Mary also worked with her husband, writer-director Paul Schrader, on a number of projects, including the 1992 film Light Sleeper and 1997 film Affliction.
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Tributes from fans have flooded in since the announcement of her death. One fan wrote on X, formally known as Twitter: “Hats off to Mary Beth Hurt. absolutely heartbreaking what she went through in her final years”, while another added: “Safe travels Mary Beth Hurt – you were one of the best and you will be missed!!”
A third wrote: “So sad to see Mary Beth Hurt leave us! My favorite of her movies is D.A.R.Y.L. She was so perfect as the mother of a perfect child (Barret Oliver from Neverending Story) that she didn’t realize was more than human”.
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Another added: “Farewell, Mary Beth Hurt. She was never anything short of brilliant, though I would argue INTERIORS was her finest hour”. Another chimed in: “She was wonderful and put so much heart into her work. Even in the smallest part (i. e. in “Untraceable”), she oozed so much warmth and life.”
Mary was born in 1946 in Marshalltown, Iowa and went on to study drama at the University of Iowa and at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts. She married her first husband, William Hurt in 1971, but they divorced a decade later.
She had her first appearance on the stage in 1974 and went on to be nominated for a Tony Award three times for her performances in Trelawny of the Wells, Crimes of the Heart, and Benefactors.
She appeared in Martin Scorsese’s The Age of Innocence in 1993 where she played Regina Beaufort, and her last television appearance was in an episode of Law & Order in 2009.
She married her second husband, Paul Schrader, in 1983 and the duo went on to have two children together – Molly and Sam. In 2023, Mary’s husband announced that she had been placed in a memory care facility due to her advancing Alzheimer’s disease.
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