Born in Dc............spent time as a kid where the white nile meets the blue.....

Early life and education[edit]

Hurt was born in Washington, D.C., the son of Claire Isabel (née McGill), who worked at Time, Inc., and Alfred McChord Hurt, who worked for the State Department.^[3] With his father, he lived in Lahore, Mogadishu and Khartoum.^[4] After his parents divorced, his mother married Henry Luce III (a son of publisher Henry Luce) during Hurt's childhood. Hurt graduated from Middlesex School in 1968 where he was vice president of the Dramatics Club and had the lead role in several school plays. His high school yearbook predicted: "With characteristics such as these, you might even see him on Broadway." Hurt attended Tufts University and studied theology,^[5] but turned instead to acting and joined the Juilliard School (Drama Division Group 5: 1972–1976).^[6] Two of his classmates there were the late actors Christopher Reeve and Robin Williams.