William Hurt
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 William Hurt facts

• He received his acting training at the Juilliard School and began acting on stage in the 1970s
• Hurt made his film debut as a troubled scientist in the science-fiction feature Altered States (1980), for which he received a Golden Globe nomination for New Star of the Year
• He subsequently played a leading role, as a lawyer who succumbs to the temptations of Kathleen Turner, in the neo-noir Body Heat (1981)
• In 1985, Hurt garnered critical acclaim and multiple acting awards, including an Academy Award and a BAFTA Award for Best Actor, for portraying a gay man in Kiss of the Spider Woman
• He received another two Academy Award nominations for his lead performances in Children of a Lesser God (1986) and Broadcast News (1987)
• Hurt remained an active stage actor throughout the 1980s, appearing in Off-Broadway productions, including Henry V, Fifth of July, Richard II and A Midsummer Night's Dream
• Hurt received his first Tony Award nomination in 1985 for the Broadway production of Hurlyburly
• After playing a diversity of character roles in the following decade, Hurt earned his fourth Academy Award nomination for his supporting performance in David Cronenberg's crime thriller A History of Violence (2005)
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