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Name
Holly Hunter

Known For
Acting

Birthday
1958-03-20 (68 years old)

Place of Birth
Conyers, Georgia, USA

Biography

Holly Hunter (born March 20, 1958) is an American actress. Born in Conyers, Georgia, she first appeared as Helen Keller in a fifth-grade play before starring in Rockdale County High School stagings of Oklahoma!, Man of La Mancha, and Fiddler on the Roof. In Pittsburgh, she graduated from Carnegie Mellon University with a degree in drama and performed in local theatre.

She then moved to New York City with Frances McDormand, beginning a Broadway career. After appearing in the 1981 slasher film The Burning, she moved to Los Angeles a year later, taking on various supporting roles in theatrical and television films before starring in Raising Arizona (1987) and receiving an Academy Award nomination for her role in Broadcast News (1987). She later went on to win two Primetime Emmy Awards for her performances in the television films Roe vs. Wade (1989) and The Positively True Adventures of the Alleged Texas Cheerleader-Murdering Mom (1993).

For her performance as a mute Scottish woman in The Piano (1993), she won the Academy Award for Best Actress. Later, she was nominated for two more Oscars for The Firm (1993) and Thirteen (2003). Other major accolades she has won include an AACTA Award, a Silver Bear, a BAFTA Award, a Cannes Film Festival Award and a Golden Globe.

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Known For

Movies

Tv Shows

2000 O Brother, Where Art Thou? as Penny
1996 Crash as Helen Remington
1987 Raising Arizona as Ed
1993 The Piano as Ada McGrath
1995 Copycat as M.J. Monahan
2000 Things You Can Tell Just by Looking at Her as Rebecca Waynon (segment "Fantasies About Rebecca")
2003 Thirteen as Melanie
1989 Always as Dorinda Durston
2002 Moonlight Mile as Mona Camp
1981 The Burning as Sophie
1997 A Life Less Ordinary as O'Reilly
2000 Jesus' Son as Mira
2027 Hurricanna
1995 Home for the Holidays as Claudia Larson
1987 Broadcast News as Jane Craig
2005 The Big White as Margaret Barnell
2000 Timecode as Renee Fishbine
2004 Little Black Book as Barb
1993 The Firm as Tammy Hemphill
2005 Nine Lives as Sonia
1991 Once Around as Renata Bella
1984 Swing Shift as Jeannie Sherman
1998 Living Out Loud as Judith Moore
1993 The Positively True Adventures of the Alleged Texas Cheerleader-Murdering Mom as Wanda Holloway
1987 End of the Line as Charlotte
1999 Woman Wanted as Emma Riley
2001 When Billie Beat Bobby as Billie Jean King
1987 A Gathering of Old Men as Candy Marshall
2012 Jackie as Jackie
1992 Crazy in Love as Georgie Symonds
2013 Paradise as Melanie Mannerheim
2000 Harlan County War as Ruby Kincaid
2012 Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen as (archive footage)
2015 Manglehorn as Dawn
2016 Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice as Senator Finch
1989 Roe vs. Wade as Ellen Russell / Jane Doe
1989 Miss Firecracker as Carnelle Scott
2003 Levity as Adele Easley
2006 Sangre as Cafe waitress
2013 From the Bottom of the Lake as herself
1985 Blood Simple as Helene Trend (voice) (uncredited)
2012 Won't Back Down as Evelyn Riske
2016 Strange Weather as Darcy Baylor
2004 The Incredibles as Helen Parr / Elastigirl (voice)
2017 Breakable You as Eleanor Weller
2011 Portraits in Dramatic Time
2017 Song to Song as Miranda
2017 The Big Sick as Beth Gardner
1989 Rabbit Ears - The Three Billy Goats Gruff/The Three Little Pigs as Narrator (voice)
2003 Moonlight Mile: A Journey to Screen as Self / Mona Camp
2017 Spielberg as Self
2013 Trespassing Bergman as Self
2000 The Coen Brothers as Self
2018 Bergman: A Year in a Life as Self
2018 Incredibles 2 as Helen Parr / Elastigirl (voice)
1989 Animal Behavior as Coral Grable
1983 Svengali as Leslie
2020 My Darling Vivian as Self (archive footage)
2001 Down from the Mountain as Self
2002 Searching for Debra Winger as Self
1983 An Uncommon Love as Karen
2001 Festival in Cannes as Self (uncredited)
1984 With Intent to Kill as Wynn Nolen
2025 The Electric State as Madeline Vance
1993 Inside 'The Piano' as Self
2028 Incredibles 3 as Helen Parr / Elastigirl (voice)
2025 Incredicoaster | Disneyland Resort as Elastigirl (voice)

1994 Inside the Actors Studio ( 1 episode ) as Self
2003 The Ellen DeGeneres Show ( 2 episodes ) as Self - Guest
1988 LIVE with Kelly and Mark ( 1 episode )
1997 The View ( 1 episode ) as Self - Guest
1992 The Tonight Show with Jay Leno ( 1 episode ) as Self - Guest
1993 Late Night with Conan O'Brien ( 1 episode ) as Self - Guest
1995 Eco-Challenge ( 17 episodes )
2007 Saving Grace ( 46 episodes ) as Grace Hanadarko
2019 Bless the Harts ( 3 episodes ) as Marjune (voice)
1953 The Oscars ( 6 episodes ) as Self
2013 Top of the Lake ( 7 episodes ) as GJ
2013 Bonnie & Clyde ( 2 episodes ) as Emma Parker
2009 Skavlan ( 1 episode ) as Self - Guest
1993 Intimate Portrait ( 1 episode ) as Self
2014 Late Night with Seth Meyers ( 1 episode ) as Self - Guest
2018 Here and Now ( 10 episodes ) as Audrey Bayer-Boatwright
1996 The Rosie O'Donnell Show ( 1 episode ) as Self - Guest
2013 The Frame ( 1 episode ) as Helen Remington
1981 Entertainment Tonight ( 1 episode ) as Self
2018 Succession ( 6 episodes ) as Rhea Jarrell
2026 Star Trek: Starfleet Academy ( 10 episodes ) as Nahla Ake
2023 Mulligan ( 2 episodes ) as (voice)
2009 Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen ( 1 episode ) as Self - Guest
2014 Off Camera with Sam Jones ( 1 episode ) as Self
2020 The Comey Rule ( 2 episodes ) as Sally Yates
2009 Late Night with Jimmy Fallon ( 1 episode ) as Self - Guest
2021 Mr. Mayor ( 19 episodes ) as Arpi
2021 Pixar Popcorn ( 1 episode ) as Helen Parr (voice)
2014 Variety Studio: Actors on Actors ( 1 episode ) as Self
2024 LEGO Pixar: BrickToons ( 1 episode ) as Helen Parr (voice)
1988 American Experience ( 3 episodes ) as Mary Lincoln (voice)
2017 Big Mouth ( 1 episode )
2004 Peep and the Big Wide World ( 2 episodes ) as Robin (voice)

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