Los Angeles, March 30 -- Tony-nominated actor Mary Beth Hurt has passed away. She was 79.

As per The Hollywood Reporter, Hurt died on Saturday. Diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease in 2015, she had until recently been living in another facility in Manhattan, with her husband in another apartment in the building.

Mourning the demise of his mother, Molly Schrader on Instagram wrote, "Yesterday morning we lost my mom, Mary Beth, to Alzheimer's after a decade long battle with the disease. She was an actress, a wife, a sister, a mother, an aunt, a friend, and she took on all those rolls with grace and a kind ferocity. Although we're grieving there is some comfort in knowing she is no longer suffering and is reunited with her sisters in peace."...