Oscar-winning actor William McChord Hurt, famously known as William Hurt, has kicked the bucket. He passed away on March 13, 2022, aged 71.
He died of natural causes, however, William Hurt had cancer before his shocking demise.
Hurt kicked off his career in film in 1980 as a troubled scientist in Ken Russell’s science-fiction feature Altered States, for which he received a Golden Globe nomination for New Star of the Year.
Then, in 1981, he played a leading role, as a lawyer who succumbs to the temptations of a married woman played by Kathleen Turner, in the neo-noir Body Heat. He played another leading role, as Arkady Renko, in Gorky Park (1983).
Hurt scored three consecutive nominations for the Academy Award for Best Actor, for Kiss of the Spider Woman (1985), Children of a Lesser God (1986), and Broadcast News (1987), winning for the first of these.
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William Hurt partners: Meet Sandra Jennings, Marlee Matlin and Sandrine Bonnaire
Hurt had three different partners, aside from being married twice. They are Sandra Jennings, Marlee Matlin and Sandrine Bonnaire.
Who is Sandra Jennings?
Jennings is a former ballet dancer, and mother of Alexander Devon Hurt. She was with Willian from 1981 to 1984.
In a 1989 lawsuit against Willian, Jennings claimed that she was as-good-as-married to the father of their child. She wanted half of the $7 million he has earned between 1982 to 1984.
Who is Marlee Matlin?
Hurt dated Marlee Matlin for one year (from 1985 to 1986).
According to several reports, they cohabited for two years, and in 1986, after Matlin won the Academy Award for Best Actress for Children of a Lesser God, Hurt reportedly asked her to consider what it meant to win the Oscar after just one film when others won only after many years of hard work. Hurt reportedly asked her in the limousine after the ceremony.
Then, in her 2009 autobiography I’ll Scream Later, Matlin said that their relationship involved considerable drug abuse and physical abuse by Hurt.
Hurt responded to the allegations by saying: “My own recollection is that we both apologized and both did a great deal to heal our lives. Of course, I did and do apologize for any pain I caused. And I know we have both grown. I wish Marlee and her family nothing but good.”
They didn’t have children together.
Who is Sandrine Bonnaire?
Sandrine and Hurt dated from 1992 to 1997, and had a child; Jeanne Bonnaire-Hurt.
Sandrine Bonnaire is a French actress, film director and screenwriter who has appeared in more than 40 films.
She won the César Award for Most Promising Actress for À Nos Amours, the César Award for Best Actress for Vagabond and the Volpi Cup for Best Actress for La Cérémonie.
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