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Holly Hunter

Holly Hunter

Acting1958Conyers, Georgia, USA

Biography

Holly Patricia Hunter (born March 20, 1958) is an American actress. Her accolades include an Academy Award, a BAFTA Award, a Golden Globe Award and two Primetime Emmy Awards. In 2008, she received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

For her performance as Ada McGrath in the 1993 drama film The Piano, Hunter won the Academy Award for Best Actress. She earned three additional Academy Award nominations for Broadcast News (1987), The Firm (1993) and Thirteen (2003). For her roles in the television films Roe vs. Wade (1989), and The Positively True Adventures of the Alleged Texas Cheerleader-Murdering Mom (1993), she won two Primetime Emmy Awards for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Limited Series or Movie. She also starred in the TNT drama series Saving Grace (2007–2010).

Hunter's other film roles include Raising Arizona (1987), Always (1989), Home for the Holidays (1995), Crash (1996), O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000), The Incredibles (2004), its sequel Incredibles 2 (2018), Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice (2016), and The Big Sick (2017), the latter of which earned her a Screen Actors Guild Award nomination for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Supporting Role.

Acting History

Future
Incredibles 3
as Helen Parr / Elastigirl (voice)
2026
Star Trek: Starfleet Academy
TVas Nahla Ake10 eps
2025
2024
Mulligan
TVas (voice)2 eps
LEGO Pixar: BrickToons
TVas Helen Parr (voice)
2021
Pixar Popcorn
TVas Helen Parr (voice)1 eps
Mr. Mayor
TVas Arpi19 eps
2020
My Darling Vivian
as Self (archive footage)
The Comey Rule
TVas Sally Yates
2019
Bless the Harts
TVas Marjune (voice)3 eps
Succession
TVas Rhea Jarrell6 eps
2018
Incredibles 2
as Helen Parr / Elastigirl (voice)
Here and Now
TVas Audrey Bayer-Boatwright10 eps
2017
The Big Sick
as Beth Gardner
Breakable You
as Eleanor Weller
Song to Song
as Miranda
Spielberg
as Self
Off Camera with Sam Jones
TVas Self1 eps
2016
Strange Weather
as Darcy Baylor
Entertainment Tonight
TVas Self1 eps
2015
Manglehorn
as Dawn
2014
2013
Paradise
as Melanie Mannerheim
Top of the Lake
TVas GJ7 eps
Bonnie & Clyde
TVas Emma Parker2 eps
The Frame
TVas Helen Remington1 eps
2012
Jackie
as Jackie
Won't Back Down
as Evelyn Riske
2010
Skavlan
TVas Self - Guest1 eps
2009
2007
Peep and the Big Wide World
TVas Robin (voice)2 eps
Saving Grace
TVas Grace Hanadarko46 eps
2005
The Big White
as Margaret Barnell
Nine Lives
as Sonia
2004
The Incredibles
as Helen Parr / Elastigirl (voice)
2003
Levity
as Adele Easley
Thirteen
as Melanie
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
TVas Self - Guest
Thirteen
Executive Producer
2001
When Billie Beat Bobby
as Billie Jean King
Festival in Cannes
as Self (uncredited)
American Experience
TVas Mary Lincoln (voice)3 eps
Intimate Portrait
TVas Self1 eps
When Billie Beat Bobby
Co-Executive Producer
2000
Things You Can Tell Just by Looking at Her
as Rebecca Waynon (segment "Fantasies About Rebecca")
Harlan County War
as Ruby Kincaid
Jesus' Son
as Mira
Timecode
as Renee Fishbine
1999
Woman Wanted
as Emma Riley
1998
Living Out Loud
as Judith Moore
1997
The View
TVas Self - Guest
1996
Crash
as Helen Remington
The Rosie O'Donnell Show
TVas Self - Guest
1995
Copycat
as M.J. Monahan
Home for the Holidays
as Claudia Larson
1994
The Oscars
TVas Self6 eps
1992
Crazy in Love
as Georgie Symonds
1991
Once Around
as Renata Bella
1989
Miss Firecracker
as Carnelle Scott
Always
as Dorinda Durston
1987
A Gathering of Old Men
as Candy Marshall
End of the Line
as Charlotte
Broadcast News
as Jane Craig
1985
Blood Simple
as Helene Trend (voice) (uncredited)
1984
Swing Shift
as Jeannie Sherman
1983
Svengali
as Leslie
1981
The Burning
as Sophie

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Personal Info

Known For
Acting
Gender
Female
Birthday
3/20/1958(67 years old)
Place of Birth
Conyers, Georgia, USA