Holly Hunter
58 movies · 16 TV shows
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- Mar 20, 1958 (age 68)
- Place of birth
- Conyers, Georgia, USA
- Also known as
- 홀리 헌터 · Holly Patricia Hunter · هالی هانتر
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).
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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
Holly Hunter: movies and TV shows
Acting (72)
- Upcoming Incredibles 3
as Helen Parr / Elastigirl (voice)
- 2026
- 2025 Incredicoaster | Disneyland Resort
as Elastigirl (voice)
- 2025
- 2025 The Electric State
as Madeline Vance
- 2024
- 2023
- 2021
- 2021
- 2020
- 2019
- 2018 Incredibles 2
as Helen Parr / Elastigirl (voice)
- 2018
- 2018
- 2017
- 2017 The Big Sick
as Beth Gardner
- 2017 Song to Song
as Miranda
- 2017 Breakable You
as Eleanor Weller
- 2016 Strange Weather
as Darcy Baylor
- 2016 Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice
as Senator Finch
- 2015 Manglehorn
as Dawn
- 2013
- 2013 Paradise
as Melanie Mannerheim
- 2013
- 2012 Won't Back Down
as Evelyn Riske
- 2012 Jackie
as Jackie
- 2012 Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen
as (archive footage)
- 2011
- 2007
- 2006 Sangre
as Cafe waitress
- 2005 The Big White
as Margaret Barnell
- 2005 Nine Lives
as Sonia
- 2004 The Incredibles
as Helen Parr / Elastigirl (voice)
- 2004 Little Black Book
as Barb
- 2004
- 2003 Thirteen
as Melanie
- 2003 Levity
as Adele Easley
- 2002 Moonlight Mile
as Mona Camp
- 2001 When Billie Beat Bobby
as Billie Jean King
- 2000 O Brother, Where Art Thou?
as Penny
- 2000 Jesus' Son
as Mira
- 2000 Things You Can Tell Just by Looking at Her
as Rebecca Waynon (segment "Fantasies About Rebecca")
- 2000 Harlan County War
as Ruby Kincaid
- 2000 Timecode
as Renee Fishbine
- 1999 Woman Wanted
as Emma Riley
- 1998 Living Out Loud
as Judith Moore
- 1997 A Life Less Ordinary
as O'Reilly
- 1996 Crash
as Helen Remington
- 1995 Home for the Holidays
as Claudia Larson
- 1995 Copycat
as M.J. Monahan
- 1995
- 1993 The Firm
as Tammy Hemphill
- 1993 The Piano
as Ada McGrath
- 1993
- 1992 Crazy in Love
as Georgie Symonds
- 1991 Once Around
as Renata Bella
- 1989 Always
as Dorinda Durston
- 1989 Animal Behavior
as Coral Grable
- 1989 Rabbit Ears - The Three Billy Goats Gruff/The Three Little Pigs
as Narrator (voice)
- 1989 Roe vs. Wade
as Ellen Russell / Jane Doe
- 1989 Miss Firecracker
as Carnelle Scott
- 1988
- 1987 Broadcast News
as Jane Craig
- 1987 End of the Line
as Charlotte
- 1987 A Gathering of Old Men
as Candy Marshall
- 1987 Raising Arizona
as Ed
- 1985 Blood Simple
as Helene Trend (voice) (uncredited)
- 1984 With Intent to Kill
as Wynn Nolen
- 1984 Swing Shift
as Jeannie Sherman
- 1983 An Uncommon Love
as Karen
- 1983 Svengali
as Leslie
- 1981 The Burning
as Sophie
Behind the camera (4)
- Upcoming Crunch
Director
- 2003 Thirteen
Executive Producer
- 2001 When Billie Beat Bobby
Co-Executive Producer
- 2000 Lost Souls
Thanks
Talk shows and appearances (28)
- 2020
- 2018
- 2017
- 2014 Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
1 episode
- 2014 Late Night with Seth Meyers
1 episode
- 2014 Off Camera with Sam Jones
1 episode
- 2013
- 2013
- 2013 The Frame
1 episode
- 2009 Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
1 episode
- 2009 Late Night with Jimmy Fallon
1 episode
- 2009 Skavlan
1 episode
- 2003 The Ellen DeGeneres Show
2 episodes
- 2003
- 2002
- 2001
- 2001
- 2000
- 1997 The View
1 episode
- 1996 The Rosie O'Donnell Show
1 episode
- 1994 Inside the Actors Studio
1 episode
- 1993 Intimate Portrait
1 episode
- 1993 Late Night with Conan O'Brien
1 episode
- 1993
- 1992 The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
1 episode
- 1988 LIVE with Kelly and Mark
1 episode
- 1981 Entertainment Tonight
1 episode
- 1953 The Oscars
6 episodes