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