Mary Beth Hurt, Three-Time Tony Award Nominee, Dies At 79 After Long Battle With Alzheimer’s Disease

Tony-nominated actor Mary Beth Hurt has passed away. She was 79. As per The Hollywood Reporter, Hurt died on Saturday.

Diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease in 2015, she had until recently been living in another facility in Manhattan, with her husband in another apartment in the building.

Mourning the demise of his mother, Molly Schrader on Instagram wrote, "Yesterday morning we lost my mom, Mary Beth, to Alzheimer's after a decade long battle with the disease.

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. Although we're grieving there is some comfort in knowing she is no longer suffering and is reunited with her sisters in peace.

"Hurt is best known for her roles in Interiors, Chilly Scenes of Winter and The World According to Garp.

Hurt also brought a sophisticated flair to James Ivory's Slaves of New York with her turn as a gallery owner, and she portrayed a 1950s mom whose quirky behavior convinces her son (Bryan Madorsky) that she and her husband (Randy Quaid) are cannibals in another 1989 film, the Bob Balaban-directed black comedy Parents.

And in Six Degrees of Separation (1993), Hurt played one of the New York socialites who falls into the web of deceit created by a charismatic young man (Will Smith) pretending to be the son of Sidney Poitier.

Hurt appeared 15 times on Broadway from 1974-2011 and in 1982 received one her three career Tony nominations for her turn as Meg Magrath, one of three Mississippi sisters facing trauma in their lives, in the Beth Henley-written Crimes of the Heart.