Holly Hunter
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.
Known For
Penny
O Brother, Where Art Thou?
Helen Remington
Crash
Ed
Raising Arizona
Ada McGrath
The Piano
M.J. Monahan
Copycat
Rebecca Waynon (segment "Fantasies About Rebecca")
Things You Can Tell Just by Looking at Her
Melanie
Thirteen
Dorinda Durston
Always
Mona Camp
Moonlight Mile
Sophie
The Burning
O'Reilly
A Life Less Ordinary
Mira
Jesus' Son
Hurricanna
Claudia Larson
Home for the Holidays
Jane Craig
Broadcast News
Margaret Barnell
The Big White
Renee Fishbine
Timecode
Barb
Little Black Book
Tammy Hemphill
The Firm
Sonia
Nine Lives
Renata Bella
Once Around
Jeannie Sherman
Swing Shift
Judith Moore
Living Out Loud
Wanda Holloway
The Positively True Adventures of the Alleged Texas Cheerleader-Murdering Mom
Charlotte
End of the Line
Emma Riley
Woman Wanted
Billie Jean King
When Billie Beat Bobby
Candy Marshall
A Gathering of Old Men
Jackie
Jackie
Georgie Symonds
Crazy in Love
Melanie Mannerheim
Paradise
Ruby Kincaid
Harlan County War
(archive footage)
Final Cut: Hölgyeim és uraim
Dawn
Manglehorn
Senator Finch
Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice
Ellen Russell / Jane Doe
Roe vs. Wade
Carnelle Scott
Miss Firecracker
Adele Easley
Levity
Cafe waitress
Sangre
herself
From the Bottom of the Lake
Helene Trend (voice) (uncredited)
Blood Simple
Evelyn Riske
Won't Back Down
Darcy Baylor
Strange Weather
Helen Parr / Elastigirl (voice)
The Incredibles
Eleanor Weller
Breakable You
Portraits in Dramatic Time
Miranda
Song to Song
Beth Gardner
The Big Sick
Narrator (voice)
Rabbit Ears - The Three Billy Goats Gruff/The Three Little Pigs
Self / Mona Camp
Moonlight Mile: A Journey to Screen
Self
Spielberg
Self
Trespassing Bergman
Self
The Coen Brothers
Self
Bergman - ett år, ett liv
Helen Parr / Elastigirl (voice)
Incredibles 2
Coral Grable
Animal Behavior
Leslie
Svengali
Self (archive footage)
My Darling Vivian
Self
Down from the Mountain
Self
Searching for Debra Winger
Karen
An Uncommon Love
Self (uncredited)
Festival in Cannes
Wynn Nolen
With Intent to Kill
Madeline Vance
The Electric State
Self
Inside 'The Piano'
Helen Parr / Elastigirl (voice)
Incredibles 3
Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Known Credits
66
Gender
Female
Birthday
1958-03-20
Place of Birth
Conyers, Georgia, USA
Also Known As
홀리 헌터