Career
She is best remembered today as the "landlady with the lamp" in the John Barrymore classic Doctor Hyde 1920, a role for which she is uncredited. This film is her most readily available film today. As with most people born in the Victorian era, Hurley probably enjoyed a theatrical career acting in provinces or regional theatre and touring before making her first film in 1909.
She continued with films until 1926.
She died June 4, 1927 of chronic myocarditis and nephritis.