Oscar-winning actor William Hurt has died at age 71, according to reports. He earned three consecutive Oscar nominations in the mid-1980s and won one.
Hurt’s son, Will, said in a statement to the Associated Press that Hurt died Sunday of natural causes. He said Hurt died peacefully, among family. Will Hurt told his father died at his home in Portland, Oregon. Hurt was diagnosed with terminal prostate cancer that had spread to the bone in 2018.
Hurt earned Oscar nominations in three consecutive years — for his role as a prisoner in a Brazilian jail in 1986's"Kiss of the Spider Woman," 1987's drama"Children of a Lesser God" and as a TV anchor in 1988's"Broadcast News.
In 1986′s"Children of a Lesser God," it was his co-star, Marlee Matlin, who took the Oscar for her performance as a custodian at a school for the deaf. Hurt played a speech teacher. Hurt and Matlin's romance bloomed offscreen as well – but it wasn’t Hurt’s first experience with notoriety. In her 2009 memoir, Matlin detailed physical abuse and drug abuse during their relationship. Hurt issued an apology, saying:"My own recollection is that we both apologized and both did a great deal to heal our lives."
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