William Hurt - Family and Companions

• father : divorced from Hurt's mother in 1956; died of liver cancer at age 86 in 1996
• mother Claire McGill: went to work at Time Inc. after her 1956 divorce from Hurt's father; met and married Henry Luce III in 1960; died of pancreatic cancer in 1972 at age 47
• step-father Henry Luce: son of founder of Time Inc.; married Hurt's mother in 1960
• brothers : has two
• brother James Hurt: younger; born c. 1951
• son Alexander Devon Hurt: born in January 1983; mother, Sandra Jennings
• son Samuel Hurt: born on August 7, 1989; mother, Heidi Henderson; Hurt has custody
• son William Hurt: born c. 1991; mother, Heidi Henderson Hurt has custody
• daughter Jeanne Hurt: born c. February 1994; mother, Sandrine Bonnaire

• wife Mary Beth Hurt: married in 1972; separated in 1977; divorce finalized in December 1982; later married director Paul Schrader
• Glenn Close: had brief relationship
• Sandra Jennings: together 1981-84; born c. 1956; was formerly with the New York City Ballet; met Hurt during the summer stock season at Saratoga Springs in 1981; filed much-publicized palimony and child custody suit against Hurt in 1989; in February 1991 NY Court of Appeals upheld a decision that Hurt did not have a common-law marriage with Jennings; trial testimony revealed that Hurt paid Jennings $64,000 annually
• Marlee Matlin: starred in "Children of a Lesser God" (1986); lived together with Hurt in 1986
• wife Heidi Hurt: married on March 4, 1989; born c. 1962; met Hurt while they were both undergoing drug and alcohol rehabilitation in Center City MN at the Hazelden treatment center; daughter of bandleader Skitch Henderson; filed for divorce August 1992; divorced in the fall of 1993
• Sandrine Bonnaire: together since c. 1991 when they appeared together in "The Plague" (1992); gave birth to daughter Jeanne c. February 1994