{"id":243053,"date":"2026-03-30T06:24:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-30T06:24:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/243053\/"},"modified":"2026-03-30T06:24:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-30T06:24:08","slug":"tony-nominated-actress-mary-beth-hurt-dies-at-79","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/243053\/","title":{"rendered":"Tony-nominated actress Mary Beth Hurt dies at 79"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"KABC logo\" class=\"awXxV NDJZt sJeUN IJwXl CfkUa EknAv NwgWd \" data-testid=\"prism-image\" draggable=\"false\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/origin-kabc.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Monday, March 30, 2026 5:39AM<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/svg;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAABAAAAAJCAQAAACRI2S5AAAAEElEQVR42mNkIAAYRxWAAQAG9gAKqv6+AwAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==\" alt=\"Tony-nominated actress Mary Beth Hurt dies at 79\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">The entertainment industry is mourning the loss of actress Mary Beth Hurt at 79 years old.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Family members say she passed away on Saturday, more than a decade after being diagnosed with Alzheimer&#8217;s disease.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Hurt earned three Tony nominations for her work on stage in &#8220;Crimes of the Heart,&#8221; &#8220;Trelawny of the Wells&#8221; and &#8220;Benefactors.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">She also appeared on TV and in movies, including &#8220;Interiors,&#8221; &#8220;The World According to Garp&#8221; and &#8220;The Age of Innocence.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC eTIW sUzSN \">Hurt, who was once married to actor William Hurt, is survived by her husband, writer-director Paul Schrader, and the couple&#8217;s two children.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2026 KABC Television, LLC. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Monday, March 30, 2026 5:39AM The entertainment industry is mourning the loss of actress Mary Beth Hurt at&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":243054,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[109001,112,114,113],"class_list":{"0":"post-243053","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-fresno","8":"tag-109001","9":"tag-fresno","10":"tag-fresno-headlines","11":"tag-fresno-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243053","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=243053"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243053\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/243054"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=243053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=243053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=243053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}