William Hurt movies

His mother re-married to Henry Luce III (the son of the founder of Time Magazine) during Hurts childhood. Hurt graduated from Middlesex School in 1968 where he was the Vice President of the Dramatics Club and had the lead role in several of the school plays. His high school yearbook predicted, "With characteristics such as these, you might even see him on Broadway." Hurt attended Tufts University and studied theology, but turned instead to acting and joined the Juilliard Drama School studying alongside Christopher Reeve.
Hurt appeared first on stage, only later turning to film.

His first major role was in the sci-fi hit Altered States (1980) which gave him wide recognition for playing an emotionally obsessed scientist. He received the Academy Award for Best Actor for Kiss of the Spider Woman in 1985. He received three additional nominations, one for Children of a Lesser God (1986), one for Broadcast News (1987) and one for A History Of Violence (2005).Often cast as an intellectual, Hurt has put this to good use in many films like Lost in Space and The Big Chill, but he is also effective in other kinds of roles like I Love You to Death, and David Cronenbergs psychological drama A History of Violence (2005), wherein, with less than 10 minutes of screen time, he plays the creepy mob boss Richie Cusack. That same year, Hurt could be seen as a mysterious government operative in Stephen Gaghans ensemble drama about the politics of Big Oil, Syriana.Hurt has most recently been seen in the mini-series adaptation of Stephen Kings Nightmares and Dreamscapes, in a piece entitled Battleground; he plays "Renshaw", a hitman who receives a package from the widow of a toymaker he killed, unaware of what is waiting inside for him. He is currently in the cast of "Vanya", an adaptation of Chekhovs Uncle Vanya playing in the Artist Repertoire Theatre in Portland, Oregon.Personal lifeFluent in French, Hurt maintains a home outside Paris. He has a daughter with actress Sandrine Bonnaire and a son with Sandra Jennings, who sued Hurt in the late 1980s claiming she was his common-law wife.

William Hurt Movies

All movies starring William Hurt.

• A History of Violence
• Artificial Intelligence: AI
• Dark City
• Into the Wild
• Michael
• Mr. Brooks
• Noise
• One True Thing
• The Incredible Hulk
• Vantage Point
• The Good Shepherd