Holly 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.
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Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Known Credits
103
Gender
Female
Birthday
1958-03-20 (67 years old)
Place of Birth
Conyers, Georgia, USA
Acting

2025

The Electric State as Madeline Vance

2024

LEGO Pixar: BrickToons as Helen Parr (voice)

2023

Mulligan as (voice)

2021

Mr. Mayor as Arpi

2021

Pixar Popcorn as Helen Parr (voice)

2020

The Comey Rule as Sally Yates

2019

Bless the Harts as Marjune (voice)

2018

Succession as Rhea Jarrell

2018

Incredibles 2 as Helen Parr / Elastigirl (voice)

2018

Here and Now as Audrey Bayer-Boatwright

2017

Big Mouth as Not available

2017

The Big Sick as Beth Gardner

2017

Song to Song as Miranda

2017

Spielberg as Self

2013

Bonnie & Clyde as Emma Parker

2013

The Frame as Helen Remington

2013

Top of the Lake as GJ

2012

Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen as (archive footage)

2009

Skavlan as Self - Guest

2007

Saving Grace as Grace Hanadarko

2004

The Incredibles as Helen Parr / Elastigirl (voice)

2003

Thirteen as Melanie

1997

The View as Self

1996

The Rosie O'Donnell Show as Self - Guest

1996

Crash as Helen Remington

1995

Copycat as M.J. Monahan

1995

Eco-Challenge as Not available

1993

Late Night with Conan O'Brien as Self - Guest

1993

Intimate Portrait as Self

1993

The Firm as Tammy Hemphill

1993

The Piano as Ada McGrath

1992

The Tonight Show with Jay Leno as Not available

1989

Always as Dorinda Durston

1988

LIVE with Kelly and Mark as Not available

1988

American Experience as Mary Lincoln (voice)

1987

Raising Arizona as Ed

1984

Blood Simple as Helene Trend (voice) (uncredited)

1981

The Burning as Sophie

1953

The Oscars as Self

NaN

Star Trek: Starfleet Academy as Not available

2024

Pizza Night as Helen Parr (voice)

2020

My Darling Vivian as Self (archive footage)

2017

Breakable You as Eleanor Weller

2016

Strange Weather as Darcy Baylor

2015

Manglehorn as Dawn

2014

And the Oscar Goes To... as Self (archive footage)

2013

Paradise as Melanie Mannerheim

2013

Trespassing Bergman as Self

2012

Won't Back Down as Evelyn Riske

2012

Jackie as Jackie

2011

Portraits in Dramatic Time as Not available

2006

Sangre as Cafe waitress

2005

The Big White as Margaret Barnell

2005

Nine Lives as Sonia

2004

Little Black Book as Barb

2003

Levity as Adele Easley

2003

Moonlight Mile: A Journey to Screen as Self / Mona Camp

2002

Moonlight Mile as Mona Camp

2001

Festival in Cannes as Self (uncredited)

2001

When Billie Beat Bobby as Billie Jean King

2000

Things You Can Tell Just by Looking at Her as Rebecca Waynon (segment "Fantasies About Rebecca")

2000

Timecode as Renee Fishbine

2000

Jesus' Son as Mira

2000

Harlan County War as Ruby Kincaid

2000

The Coen Brothers as Self

1999

Woman Wanted as Emma Riley

1998

Living Out Loud as Judith Moore

1997

A Life Less Ordinary as O'Reilly

1995

Home for the Holidays as Claudia Larson

1993

Inside 'The Piano' as Self

1992

Crazy in Love as Georgie Symonds

1991

Once Around as Renata Bella

1989

Miss Firecracker as Carnelle Scott

1989

Roe vs. Wade as Ellen Russell / Jane Doe

1989

Animal Behavior as Coral Grable

1987

Broadcast News as Jane Craig

1987

End of the Line as Charlotte

1987

A Gathering of Old Men as Candy Marshall

1984

Swing Shift as Jeannie Sherman

1984

With Intent to Kill as Wynn Nolen

1983

Svengali as Leslie

NaN

Hurricanna as Not available

1983

An Uncommon Love as Karen
Crew

2003

Thirteen Executive Producer

2001

When Billie Beat Bobby Co-Executive Producer

2000

Lost Souls Thanks