Confidence haugen biography of william hurt

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He later acted in the legal drama series Goliath — and the thriller series Condor — He made his Broadway debut in David Rabe 's dark comedy Hurlyburly playing a Hollywood casting director, for which he received a nomination for the Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play. Hurt was born on March 20, , in Washington, D. Hurt attended the Middlesex School , where he was vice-president of the Dramatics Club and had the lead role in several school plays.

He graduated in and his yearbook predicted, "you might even see him on Broadway. Hurt began his career in stage productions. From to , he was a member of the acting company at Circle Repertory Company. In , Hurt played Hamlet under the direction of Marshall W. Mason opposite Lindsay Crouse and Beatrice Straight. His first major film role was in the science-fiction film Altered States , where his performance as an obsessed scientist gained him wide recognition.

Kasdan and he became frequent collaborators: Hurt co-starred in Kasdan's acclaimed comedy-dramas The Big Chill and The Accidental Tourist , both of which were nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture , and he later had a supporting role in the ensemble comedy I Love You to Death In the s, Hurt received three consecutive Academy Award nominations for Best Actor, beginning with an Oscar win for his turn as a prisoner in Hector Babenco 's drama Kiss of the Spider Woman in The New York Times wrote, "Mr.

Hurt won a well-deserved best actor award at the Cannes Film Festival for a performance that is crafty at first, carefully nurtured and finally stirring in profound, unanticipated ways What starts out as a campy, facetious catalog of Hollywood trivia becomes an extraordinarily moving film about manhood, heroism and love.