William Hurt, Academy Award-Winning Actor, Dead at 71

William Hurt,
Academy Award-Winning Actor, , Dead at 71.
William Hurt's son, Will, announced the death of his father on March 13.
It is with great sadness that the Hurt family mourns the passing of William Hurt, beloved father and Oscar winning actor, on March 13, 2022, one week before his
72nd birthday, Will Hurt, Son of William Hurt, via TMZ.
He died peacefully, among family, of natural causes. The family requests privacy at this time, Will Hurt, Son of William Hurt, via TMZ.
Hurt's extraordinary career spanned more than four decades.
The Juilliard trained actor maintained a leading-man status in Hollywood throughout the 1980s.
But Hurt was well known for his immense range of characters.
He won the Best Actor Oscar for
his 1985 performance of a gay
man sharing a South American prison
cell in 'Kiss of the Spider Woman.'.
In his later career, Hurt accepted a number of smaller roles that indicated his openness to his shifting star-power. .
I don’t have to be the star, physically. My greatest offering is my concept. It isn’t my face, William Hurt, Interview, via 'The New York Times'.
Hurt was also a well known presence on television.
appearing on the FX show 'Damages' and in a number of television films.
In addition to Hurt's prolific film and television career, he was also well known for his theater work on Broadway.
He once quipped that “theater is a language I speak better or am more tuned into than English.”.
Hurt is survived by his four children