William Hurt, the acclaimed actor known for his award-winning work in films like Kiss of the Spider Woman and Broadcast News, died on Sunday. His son Will released a statement confirming that Hurt died “peacefully, among family, of natural causes.” He was 71.
Hurt was a classically trained actor, appearing in stage productions in New York City throughout the 1970s before making his film debut in Ken Russell’s 1980 science-fiction thriller Altered States. Hurt received a Golden Globe nomination for that debut performance, and the next year co-starred alongside Kathleen Turner in the neo-noir classic Body Heat. In the mid-1980s, Hurt received three consecutive Academy Award nominations for his work in Kiss of the Spider Woman (1985), Children of a Lesser God (1986), and Broadcast…
