Family
- father Alfred McCord Hurt: Worked for the U.S. State Department as the director of trust territories; divorced Hurt's mother in 1956; died of liver cancer in 1996 at age 86
- mother Claire McGill: Worked 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 III: The son of the founder of Time magazine; married Hurt's mother in 1960
- brother James Hurt: Born c. 1951
- son Alexander Devon Hurt: Born in 1983; mother, Sandra Jennings
- son Samuel Hurt: Born Aug. 7, 1989; mother, Heidi Henderson
- son William Hurt: Born c. 1991; mother, Heidi Henderson
- daughter Jeanne Hurt: Born in 1994; mother, Sandrine Bonnaire
Companions
- Glenn Close: had brief relationship
- Marlee Matlin: starred in "Children of a Lesser God" (1986); lived together with Hurt in 1986
- 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
- Sandrine Bonnaire: together since c. 1991 when they appeared together in "The Plague" (1992); gave birth to daughter Jeanne c. February 1994
