Holly Hunter
Acting
- Born:
- 1958-03-20
- 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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Holly Hunter, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known For
Filmography
Incredibles 3
Hurricanna
Star Trek: Starfleet Academy
Incredicoaster | Disneyland Resort
The Electric State
LEGO Pixar: BrickToons
Mulligan
Pixar Popcorn
Mr. Mayor
The Comey Rule
My Darling Vivian
Bless the Harts
Bergman: A Year in a Life
Incredibles 2
Succession
Here and Now
Spielberg
Big Mouth
The Big Sick
Song to Song
Breakable You
Strange Weather
Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice
Manglehorn
Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
Late Night with Seth Meyers
Off Camera with Sam Jones
Bonnie & Clyde
Paradise
From the Bottom of the Lake
Trespassing Bergman
The Frame
Top of the Lake
Won't Back Down
Jackie
Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen
Portraits in Dramatic Time
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
Late Night with Jimmy Fallon
Skavlan
Saving Grace
Sangre
The Big White
Nine Lives
The Incredibles
Little Black Book
Peep and the Big Wide World
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
Thirteen
Levity
Moonlight Mile: A Journey to Screen
Moonlight Mile
Searching for Debra Winger
Festival in Cannes
Down from the Mountain
When Billie Beat Bobby
Abraham and Mary Lincoln: A House Divided
The Coen Brothers
O Brother, Where Art Thou?
Jesus' Son
Things You Can Tell Just by Looking at Her
Harlan County War
Timecode
Woman Wanted
Living Out Loud
A Life Less Ordinary
The View
Crash
The Rosie O'Donnell Show
Home for the Holidays
Copycat
Eco-Challenge
Inside the Actors Studio
Intimate Portrait
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
The Firm
The Piano
The Positively True Adventures of the Alleged Texas Cheerleader-Murdering Mom
Inside 'The Piano'
Crazy in Love
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
Once Around
Always
Animal Behavior
Rabbit Ears - The Three Billy Goats Gruff/The Three Little Pigs
Roe vs. Wade
Miss Firecracker
American Experience
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
Broadcast News
End of the Line
A Gathering of Old Men
Raising Arizona
Blood Simple
With Intent to Kill
Swing Shift
An Uncommon Love
Svengali
Entertainment Tonight
The Burning
The Oscars