Mary Beth Hurt

Mary Beth Hurt was exactly the kind of actress who made everyone around her look sharper — quietly commanding, never showy, and almost impossible to ignore even when she wasn't the loudest person in the room. I first really noticed her in Woody Allen's Interiors, where she held her own against a devastatingly intense ensemble without a single false note, and then she just kept delivering in The World According to Garp and beyond. Three Tony nominations and an Obie tell you everything about where she truly lived: on stage, where you can't cheat. The Lucille Lortel win in 2010 felt like a long-overdue public acknowledgment of work the theater world had quietly revered for decades. A real craftsman's craftsman, from Marshalltown, Iowa — and that Midwestern groundedness always showed.

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Name (English)

Mary Beth Hurt

Name (Japanese)

メアリー・ベス・ハート

Reading

めありー・べす・はーと

Born

September 26, 1946 (age 79)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Libra / Dog

Origin

Marshalltown, Iowa, United States

Occupation

film actor / television actor / stage actor / actor

University

University of Iowa

Awards & achievements

• 2010 Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Featured Actress

• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary%20Beth%20Hurt
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%A1%E3%82%A2%E3%83%AA%E3%83%BC%E3%83%BB%E3%83%99%E3%82%B9%E3%83%BB%E3%83%8F%E3%83%BC%E3%83%88
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q271460

Tags

• Iowa
• film actor
• television actor
• stage actor

Last updated

2026-06-02

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