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Holly Hunter

Acting 67 years old Conyers, Georgia, USA ★ 3.0
Born: March 20, 1958

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.

External Links

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Known For

Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen Self - Guest 2009
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
LIVE with Kelly and Mark 1988
Succession
Succession Rhea Jarrell 2018
American Experience
American Experience Mary Lincoln (voice) 1988
Star Trek: Starfleet Academy
Star Trek: Starfleet Academy Nahla Ake 2026

Jimmy's Seen (2)

Blood Simple
Blood Simple Helene Trend (voice) (uncredited) 1984
Die Hard
Die Hard Self - Guest 1988

Filmography

Acting Credits (99)

Star Trek: Starfleet Academy
Star Trek: Starfleet Academy Nahla Ake 2026
Hurricanna
Hurricanna 2025
The Electric State
The Electric State Madeline Vance 2025
LEGO Pixar: BrickToons
LEGO Pixar: BrickToons Helen Parr (voice) 2024
Mulligan
Mulligan (voice) 2023
Pixar Popcorn
Pixar Popcorn Helen Parr (voice) 2021
Mr. Mayor
Mr. Mayor Arpi 2021
The Comey Rule
The Comey Rule Sally Yates 2020
My Darling Vivian
My Darling Vivian Self (archive footage) 2020
Bless the Harts
Bless the Harts Marjune (voice) 2019
Bergman: A Year in a Life
Bergman: A Year in a Life Self 2018
Incredibles 2
Incredibles 2 Helen Parr / Elastigirl (voice) 2018
Succession
Succession Rhea Jarrell 2018
Here and Now
Here and Now Audrey Bayer-Boatwright 2018
Spielberg
Spielberg Self 2017
Big Mouth
Big Mouth 2017
The Big Sick
The Big Sick Beth Gardner 2017
Song to Song
Song to Song Miranda 2017
Breakable You
Breakable You Eleanor Weller 2017
Strange Weather
Strange Weather Darcy Baylor 2016
Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice
Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice Senator Finch 2016
Manglehorn
Manglehorn Dawn 2015
Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
Variety Studio: Actors on Actors Self 2014
Late Night with Seth Meyers
Late Night with Seth Meyers Self - Guest 2014
Off Camera with Sam Jones
Off Camera with Sam Jones Self 2014
Bonnie & Clyde
Bonnie & Clyde Emma Parker 2013
Paradise
Paradise Melanie Mannerheim 2013
From the Bottom of the Lake
From the Bottom of the Lake herself 2013
Trespassing Bergman
Trespassing Bergman Self 2013
The Frame
The Frame Helen Remington 2013
Top of the Lake
Top of the Lake GJ 2013
Won't Back Down
Won't Back Down Evelyn Riske 2012
Jackie
Jackie Jackie 2012
Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen
Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen (archive footage) 2012
Portraits in Dramatic Time
Portraits in Dramatic Time 2011
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen Self - Guest 2009
Late Night with Jimmy Fallon
Late Night with Jimmy Fallon Self - Guest 2009
Skavlan
Skavlan Self - Guest 2009
Saving Grace
Saving Grace Grace Hanadarko 2007
Sangre
Sangre Cafe waitress 2006
The Big White
The Big White Margaret Barnell 2005
Nine Lives
Nine Lives Sonia 2005
The Incredibles
The Incredibles Helen Parr / Elastigirl (voice) 2004
Little Black Book
Little Black Book Barb 2004
Peep and the Big Wide World
Peep and the Big Wide World Robin (voice) 2004
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
The Ellen DeGeneres Show Self - Guest 2003
Thirteen
Thirteen Melanie 2003
Levity
Levity Adele Easley 2003
Moonlight Mile: A Journey to Screen
Moonlight Mile: A Journey to Screen Self / Mona Camp 2003
Moonlight Mile
Moonlight Mile Mona Camp 2002
Searching for Debra Winger
Searching for Debra Winger Self 2002
Festival in Cannes
Festival in Cannes Self (uncredited) 2001
Down from the Mountain
Down from the Mountain Self 2001
When Billie Beat Bobby
When Billie Beat Bobby Billie Jean King 2001
The Coen Brothers
The Coen Brothers Self 2000
O Brother, Where Art Thou?
O Brother, Where Art Thou? Penny 2000
Jesus' Son
Jesus' Son Mira 2000
Things You Can Tell Just by Looking at Her
Things You Can Tell Just by Looking at Her Rebecca Waynon (segment "Fantasies About Rebecca") 2000
Harlan County War
Harlan County War Ruby Kincaid 2000
Timecode
Timecode Renee Fishbine 2000
Woman Wanted
Woman Wanted Emma Riley 1999
Living Out Loud
Living Out Loud Judith Moore 1998
A Life Less Ordinary
A Life Less Ordinary O'Reilly 1997
The View
The View Self - Guest 1997
Crash
Crash Helen Remington 1996
The Rosie O'Donnell Show
The Rosie O'Donnell Show Self - Guest 1996
Home for the Holidays
Home for the Holidays Claudia Larson 1995
Copycat
Copycat M.J. Monahan 1995
Eco-Challenge
Eco-Challenge 1995
Inside the Actors Studio
Inside the Actors Studio Self 1994
Intimate Portrait
Intimate Portrait Self 1993
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
Late Night with Conan O'Brien Self - Guest 1993
The Firm
The Firm Tammy Hemphill 1993
The Piano
The Piano Ada McGrath 1993
The Positively True Adventures of the Alleged Texas Cheerleader-Murdering Mom
The Positively True Adventures of the Alleged Texas Cheerleader-Murdering Mom Wanda Holloway 1993
Inside 'The Piano'
Inside 'The Piano' Self 1993
Crazy in Love
Crazy in Love Georgie Symonds 1992
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno Self - Guest 1992
Once Around
Once Around Renata Bella 1991
Always
Always Dorinda Durston 1989
Animal Behavior
Animal Behavior Coral Grable 1989
Rabbit Ears - The Three Billy Goats Gruff/The Three Little Pigs
Rabbit Ears - The Three Billy Goats Gruff/The Three Little Pigs Narrator (voice) 1989
Roe vs. Wade
Roe vs. Wade Ellen Russell / Jane Doe 1989
Miss Firecracker
Miss Firecracker Carnelle Scott 1989
American Experience
American Experience Mary Lincoln (voice) 1988
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
LIVE with Kelly and Mark 1988
Broadcast News
Broadcast News Jane Craig 1987
End of the Line
End of the Line Charlotte 1987
A Gathering of Old Men
A Gathering of Old Men Candy Marshall 1987
Raising Arizona
Raising Arizona Ed 1987
Blood Simple
Blood Simple Helene Trend (voice) (uncredited) 1985
With Intent to Kill
With Intent to Kill Wynn Nolen 1984
Swing Shift
Swing Shift Jeannie Sherman 1984
An Uncommon Love
An Uncommon Love Karen 1983
Svengali
Svengali Leslie 1983
Entertainment Tonight
Entertainment Tonight Self 1981
The Burning
The Burning Sophie 1981
The Oscars
The Oscars Self 1953
Incredibles 3
Incredibles 3 Helen Parr / Elastigirl (voice)

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