Trivia

Growing up in Marshalltown, Iowa, she had Jean Seberg as a baby sitter. The Sebergs lived next door to her.

Has been nominated for Tony Awards three times: as Best Actress (Featured Role -Play), in 1976 for "Trelawny of the 'Wells'" and in 1982 for "Crimes of the Heart;" and as Best Actress (Play), in 1986 for "Benefactors."

Her childhood babysitter was actress Jean Seberg, also a Marshalltown native. Hurt played the role of Seberg, in voice-over, in Mark Rappaport's 1995 documentary From the Journals of Jean Seberg (1995).

Won an Obie Award in 1980/81 for her role in Crimes of the Heart.

Received her B.A. from the University of Iowa in 1968.

Attended the University of Iowa, as did Gene Wilder, Ashton Kutcher, and Ben Rollins.

Has a daughter, Molly Johanna Schrader (b. 1984), and a son, Sam Schrader (b. 1988), with her husband, Paul Schrader.

Hurt's New York debut was as Uncle Remus, a 98 year-old Vietnamese man, at a Public Theater production of Michael Weller's rock musical, "More Than You Deserve." There she was seen and recruited by Joseph Papp for his Shakespeare in the Park productions.

Attended the NYU School of the Arts.

She was awarded the 1978 Drama Logue Award for Outstanding Performance in the play, "Dusa, Fish, Stas & Vi" at the Mark Taper Forum Theatre in Los Angeles, California.

She is of German, English, and smaller amounts of Irish, Scottish, and Welsh, descent.

Hurt studied drama at the University of Iowa and at New York University's Graduate Acting Program at the Tisch School of the Arts. She made her New York stage debut in 1974.

Sister-in-law of Leonard Schrader and Chieko Schrader.

Scott Supinger, a relative of hers, appeared on an episode of The Tracey Ullman Show (1987).