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William Hurt (b. March 20, 1950, Washington, D.C. ) is an Academy Award-winning American actor best. Hurt has been nominated four times for the Oscar and won his first nomination for Best Actor in a Leading Role in Kiss of the Spider Woman. He was also nominated for Children of a Lesser God , Broadcast News, and A History of Violence.

Hurt spent part of his childhood traveling as his father worked for the State Department. His parents divorced when he was six years old and he settled in Manhattan with his mother but continued to travel with his father on vacation breaks. When his mother remarried to Time-Life heir, Henry Luce III, he was sent to boarding school in Massachusetts where he first became involved in acting.

Hurt studied theology as Tufts University for three years and married actress, Mary Beth Supinger. The couple moved to London, where Hurt studied drama. After returning to New York, he enrolled at Juliard where he studied drama. Difficulties in his marriage led to a divorce and he left the city for the Shakespeare festival in Ashland, Oregon where he made his professional stage debut in a production of Hamlet.

Hurt made his feature film debut in Ken Russell's Altered States in 1980. His breakout role came a year later in Body Heat and he followed up with roles in The Big Chill, and Gorky Park and, in 1986, his Oscar-winning turn in Kiss of a Spider Woman. Over the years he appeared in several genre features including Woody Allen's Alice, Michael, Dark City, Lost in Space, Dune, Artificial Intelligence: AI, Tuck Everlasting, and Frankenstein, Nightmares and Dreamscapes: From the Stories of Stephen King.

In 2008, Hurt completed he film The Incredible Hulk in which he plaus General Thaddeus 'Thunderbolt' Ross. He also appeared in the war drama, Beast of Bataan. In 2009, he will appear in The Countess, based on the life of Elizabeth Bathory.

External Links

• William Hurt at Internet Movie Database
• Hurt at Starpulse