NEW YORK (AP) — Mary Beth Hurt, a Tony Award-nominated actor who starred on Broadway in “Benefactors” with Glenn Close and reunited with Close for the movie “The World According to Garp,” has died. She was 79.
Hurt died Saturday in New Jersey after she was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease in 2015, according to her daughter, Molly Schrader. Hurt was the wife of filmmaker Paul Schrader and appeared in his movies “Affliction” and “Light Sleeper.” He had moved into Hunt’s senior-living facility in 2023 to stay close to her.
“She was an actress, a wife, a sister, a mother, an aunt, a friend,” her daughter wrote in an Instagram post, saying Hurt took on those roles “with grace and a kind ferocity.”
“Although we’re grieving there is some comfort in knowing she is no longer suffering and is reunited with her sisters in peace,” she added.
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