Who is Bill Pullman’s wife? Meet Tamara Hurwitz
Bill Pullman has been married to Tamara Hurwitz since 3 January 1987. She is a modern dancer, choreographer and dance educator who performed with the José Limón Dance Company and three other contemporary companies. They met as students at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and have three children together.
Thirty-nine years is an unusual run for a Hollywood marriage. What is more unusual is how little of it has played out in public.
Quick facts
| Full name | Tamara Hurwitz, also credited as Tamara Pullman |
| Profession | Modern dancer, choreographer, dance educator |
| Married | Bill Pullman, 3 January 1987 |
| Children | Maesa Pullman, Jack Pullman, Lewis Pullman |
| Dance companies | José Limón Dance Company, Ann Vachon Dance Conduit, Pacific Dance Ensemble, Rosanna Gamson WorldWide |
| Also known for | Co-founding Hollywood Orchard in 2011 |
| Homes | Los Angeles and a ranch in Montana |
| Last verified appearance | 98th Academy Awards, 15 March 2026 |
They met playing a married couple
Both were students at UMass Amherst, he studying acting and she studying dance. A director named Ed Golden cast them opposite one another in Molière’s Impromptu at Versailles.
He cast them as husband and wife.
The working relationship outlasted the production. When Pullman later directed a staging of The Changeling, Hurwitz choreographed it. They married on 3 January 1987, and by the time they appeared together at the Academy Awards in March 2026 the marriage was approaching thirty-nine years.
Her career was never an extension of his
This is the part most profiles skip in a sentence, and it is the part that actually explains her.
Hurwitz built a performing career in modern dance across four companies in four parts of the country:
- José Limón Dance Company, New York. Founded in 1946, one of the oldest modern dance companies in the country.
- Ann Vachon Dance Conduit, Philadelphia
- Pacific Dance Ensemble, Oregon
- Rosanna Gamson WorldWide, Los Angeles
She taught throughout, and the settings are worth noting: dance conservatories, rural storefront spaces, and urban YMCA programmes. Someone trading on a famous surname does not end up teaching in a storefront in Montana.
She is not an actress, despite appearing on several filmography sites. Her two screen credits are documentaries, The Fruit Hunters in 2012 and the short Parables of War in 2014.
Passing, and work built around grief
Hurwitz lost both parents within roughly two years. Her father died in her arms, and because ambulances in that district could not legally transport the deceased, she and her daughter waited beside his covered body until the authorities came.
She had collaborated since the 1980s with Tracy Penfield, a Montana-based dance and fibre artist. Together they made Passing, a full-length dance and music work built around the several meanings of that word and the transitional state between life and whatever follows.
In 2014 she performed in Healing Wars, a theatrical dance piece by MacArthur Fellow Liz Lerman that premiered at Arena Stage in Washington, DC. It examined how injury persists after the fighting stops, and the company included a combat veteran alongside professional dancers. Bill Pullman appeared in it too.
Hollywood Orchard
In 1991 the couple bought a house in Beachwood Canyon, Los Angeles, then close to seventy-five years old. The lot ran to roughly two and a half acres on a south-facing slope. Pullman had gone looking specifically for land that could hold a terrace and an orchard.
Twenty years later that became a working non-profit. Hollywood Orchard, founded in 2011, runs on what it calls a tree-to-table model. Volunteers harvest fruit from neighbourhood trees and carry it to a pop-up kitchen in the cul-de-sac outside the house, where local chefs help preserve it. The remainder goes to food banks in south Los Angeles. In one afternoon about fifty volunteers can collect up to 2,000 pounds of fruit that would otherwise have rotted on the branch.
Their three children
All three work in the arts, none in the same discipline.
Maesa Pullman is a musician. Jack Pullman works as a puppet and mask designer. Lewis Pullman is an actor, and has taken both parents to premieres including the Los Angeles screening of Remarkably Bright Creatures.
How old is Tamara Hurwitz?
Nobody outside her family knows, and the date you will find on most sites is wrong.
Nearly every profile lists her as born on 7 January 1970 in Los Angeles. That cannot be true. She married Pullman on 3 January 1987, which would have made her seventeen four days earlier. She met him before that, as a fellow university student. The arithmetic does not work.
The date appears to have started on one biography aggregator and spread by copying. She has no standalone English Wikipedia entry where a sourced date would normally sit, and she has never published one herself.
The 5 feet 6 inches height figure circulating alongside it has the same problem, as does her ancestry, given as Norwegian on some sites and Ashkenazi Jewish on others.
What is Tamara Hurwitz’s net worth?
There is no figure worth quoting.
Several sites publish a range of $1 million to $5 million for her personally, with no source attached, because no source exists. She has never made a financial disclosure, and dancers, choreographers and dance educators do not file public accounts. Any number attached to her name is a guess wearing the costume of a fact.
FAQs
Who is Bill Pullman’s wife?
Tamara Hurwitz, a modern dancer, choreographer and dance educator. They met at UMass Amherst and married on 3 January 1987.
How long have Bill Pullman and Tamara Hurwitz been married?
Since January 1987, close to thirty-nine years as of 2026.
Do they have children?
Three: Maesa, Jack and Lewis Pullman, all working in music, design and acting respectively.
Is Tamara Hurwitz an actress?
No, her profession is dance. Her only screen credits are two documentaries.
Does Tamara Hurwitz have a Wikipedia page?
No. She appears inside articles about Bill Pullman and Lewis Pullman, but has no standalone entry.
Are Bill Pullman and Tamara Hurwitz still together?
Yes. They appeared together at the Academy Awards on 15 March 2026.
What we left out, and why
We have not given her age, her height, her ancestry or her net worth, because no reliable source establishes any of them. The figures circulating elsewhere were arrived at by copying rather than checking.
What remains is documented, and a good deal more interesting than a birthday.
JacksonPadilla is a writer at Around Celebrities, covering celebrity families, relationships, biographies, and the stories behind the stars. With a focus on clear and engaging storytelling, Kole helps readers discover the people and connections beyond the spotlight.
