Mary Beth Hurt dead: ‘The World According to Garp' starlet was 79
Mary Beth Hurt, the Tony Award-nominated starlet whose display and platform career spanned five decades, has died at the age of 79 following a
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Mary Beth Hurt dead: ‘The World According to Garp' starlet was 79
Mary Beth Hurt, the Tony Award-nominated starlet whose display and platform career spanned five decades, has died at the age of 79 following a decade-long battle with Alzheimer's disease.
Her daughter Molly Schrader confirmed the news on Instagram on Sunday, saying her mother passed away on Saturday at an assisted living facility in Jersey City, New Jersey.
"Yesterday morning we lost my mom, Mary Beth, to Alzheimer's after a decade long battle with the disease," she wrote alongside a photograph of herself as a baby with her mother.
"She was an starlet, a wife, a sister, a mother, an aunt, a friend, and she took on all those roles 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."
Her husband, Oscar-nominated writer and helmer Paul Schrader, also confirmed her death to the Hollywood Correspondent .
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