Holly Hunter

Personal Info

Known For Actor

Gender Female

Birthday 1958-03-20 (66 years old)

Place of Birth Conyers, Georgia, USA

Also Known As 홀리 헌터, Holly Patricia Hunter

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

Actor

2023
Mulligan

as (voice)

2021
Mr. Mayor

as Arpi

2020
My Darling Vivian

as Self (archive footage)

2020
The Comey Rule

as Sally Yates

2019
Bless the Harts

as Marjune (voice)

2018
Incredibles 2

as Helen Parr / Elastigirl (voice)

2018
Succession

as Rhea Jarrell

2018
Here and Now

as Audrey Bayer-Boatwright

2017
Spielberg

as Self

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
2015
Manglehorn

as Dawn

2014
And the Oscar Goes To...

as Self (archive footage)

2013
Paradise

as Melanie Mannerheim

2013
Bonnie & Clyde

as Emma Parker

2013
The Frame

as Helen Remington

2013
2012
Won't Back Down

as Evelyn Riske

2012
2012
Jackie

as Jackie

2012
Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen

as (archive footage)

2009
Skavlan

as Self - Guest

2007
Saving Grace

as Grace Hanadarko

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
2003
Thirteen

as Melanie Freeland

2003
Levity

as Adele Easley

2003
2002
Moonlight Mile

as Mona Camp

2001
Festival in Cannes

as Self (uncredited)

2001
When Billie Beat Bobby

as Billie Jean King

2000
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
1997
The View

as Self

1996
Crash

as Helen Remington

1996
The Rosie O'Donnell Show

as Self - Guest

1995
Home for the Holidays

as Claudia Larson

1995
Copycat

as M.J. Monahan

1993
The Firm

as Tammy Hemphill

1993
The Piano

as Ada McGrath

1993
1993
1992
Crazy in Love

as Georgie Symonds

1991
Once Around

as Renata Bella

1989
Always

as Dorinda Durston

1989
Animal Behaviour

as Coral Grable

1989
Animal Behavior

as Coral Grable

1989
Roe vs. Wade

as Ellen Russell / Jane Doe

1989
Miss Firecracker

as Carnelle Scott

1987
Broadcast News

as Jane Craig

1987
End of the Line

as Charlotte

1987
A Gathering of Old Men

as Candy Marshall

1987
1985
Blood Simple

as Helene Trend (voice) (uncredited)

1984
With Intent to Kill

as Wynn Nolen

1984
Swing Shift

as Jeannie Sherman

1983
1983
Svengali

as Leslie

1981
The Burning

as Sophie

1953
The Oscars

as Self

Producer

2003
Thirteen

as Executive Producer

2001
When Billie Beat Bobby

as Co-Executive Producer

Crew

2000
Lost Souls

as Thanks