Slender, aggressively versatile stage performer whose best known work includes "Trelawney of the Wells" (1976) with the New York Shakespeare Festival, "Love for Love" (1974) with the Phoenix Repertory Company and the Broadway production of "Crimes of the Heart" (1981-83). Hurt made her film debut as one of three emotionally tormented sisters in Woody Allen's starkly dramatic "Interiors" (1978) and followed up with her first feature lead in "Head Over Heels" (1979).Because of her theater commitments, Hurt's film career has not been especially prolific, but she has regularly appeared in
First NYC stage appearance in Equity Library Theatre's production of "New Girl in Town"
1973
Off-Broadway debut, "As You Like It" with the New York Shakespeare Festival
1974
Broadway debut, "Love for Love"
1977
First notable US TV appearance, a prominent supporting role in the PBS "Theater in America" presentation of the Phoenix Repertory Company's production of "Secret Service", starring John Lithgow and Meryl Streep
