Mary Beth Hurt dies: ‘World According to Garp’ actor was 79
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 Alzheimer’s disease, her daughter Molly Schrader announced Sunday in an Instagram post. Hurt’s 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 Alzheimer’s 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 we’re 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 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 …
