Iowa Almanac
Iowa Almanac -- Thursday, September 26, 2024
Always an actress. More from the Iowa Almanac in a moment. Every detail matters when building a winning game plan. That's why the Cyclones and Hawkeyes rely on better, cleaner now biodiesel to power their team buses on game day. Delivering success on the field, in the field, and in the environment. Make biodiesel part of your winning game plan by visiting aisoybeans.com. Biodiesel, grow it, request it, use it. This message brought to you by the Iowa Soybean Association and the Soybean Check-Off. From the time she was born in Marshalltown on September 26, 1946, Mary Beth Soupinger knew she was an actress. She once told an interviewer that the first place she ever saw was put on by children in her neighborhood. She then realized that the people she saw on television and in movies were actors. And once she knew that she understood that she didn't want to be an actress someday, she was an actress. Her older next door neighbor and babysitter was Jean Seaburg, who herself would become a world renowned actress. She graduated from the University of Iowa in 1968 and studied at the New York University Tisch School of the Arts. She was married for a time to actor William Hurt and became known professionally as Mary Beth Hurt. She made her New York Stage debut in 1974 and has been nominated for three Tony Awards. Her film debut was in Woody Allen's dramatic film, Interiors as the Middle Sister. She also played Helen Holm Garp in The World According to Garp and was featured in director Martin Scorsese's film The Age of Innocence. She even played Jean Seaburg through voiceover in a 1995 documentary about her fellow Marshalltown native. And she is still acting with her most recent film, Change in the Air, released in 2018. She once said she'd never been cast as a mistress, instead, as the girl men Mary, not the one they have affairs with. Always an actress, Mary Beth Soupinger Hurt was born in Marshalltown on this date in 1946. And that's Iowa Almanac for September 26th. For more online at IowaAlmanac.com, until tomorrow, I'm Jeff Stein.