Mary Beth Hurt on AllMovie

Best known as a stage actress, Mary Beth Hurt has occasionally worked in films. Born Mary Beth Supinger, she attended New York University's School of the Arts and then worked with the famed amateur theater group the Questers for a year. Hurt launched her distinguished theater career after performing at the 1972 New York Shakespeare Festival. On-stage, she went on to win two Obies and a Tony nomination. In 1978, Hurt made her feature-film debut playing in Woody Allen's first drama, Interiors. Prior to that, Hurt had appeared in two television movies. Since then, Hurt has continued to occasionally appear in films. Notable performances include Garp's wife, Helen, in The World According to Garp (1982) and a rejected wife in Defenseless (1991). In 1995, Hurt portrayed actress Jean Seberg in the docudrama From the Journals of Jean Seberg. Between 1972 and 1982, Hurt was married to actor William Hurt.