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Holly Hunter
Acting
1958-03-20 - Present
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.
Credits
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Batman v Superman: Dawn of JusticeasSenator Finch
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The IncrediblesasHelen Parr / Elastigirl (voice)
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The Electric StateasMadeline Vance
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Incredibles 2asHelen Parr / Elastigirl (voice)
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The FirmasTammy Hemphill
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CrashasHelen Remington
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O Brother, Where Art Thou?asPenny
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ThirteenasMelanie
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The PianoasAda McGrath
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CopycatasM.J. Monahan
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The Big SickasBeth Gardner
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Miss FirecrackerasCarnelle Scott
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Raising ArizonaasEd
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Harlan County WarasRuby Kincaid
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Blood SimpleasHelene Trend (voice) (uncredited)
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The BurningasSophie
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Song to SongasMiranda
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A Life Less OrdinaryasO'Reilly
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Broadcast NewsasJane Craig
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Lynch/OzasAda McGrath (archive footage) (uncredited)
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AlwaysasDorinda Durston
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Nine LivesasSonia
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SpielbergasSelf
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Bergman: A Year in a LifeasSelf
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And the Oscar Goes To...asSelf (archive footage)
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The Big WhiteasMargaret Barnell
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Little Black BookasBarb
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Home for the HolidaysasClaudia Larson
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Moonlight MileasMona Camp
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Jesus' SonasMira
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Won't Back DownasEvelyn Riske
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Swing ShiftasJeannie Sherman
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Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemenas(archive footage)
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ParadiseasMelanie Mannerheim
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Things You Can Tell Just by Looking at HerasRebecca Waynon (segment "Fantasies About Rebecca")
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Living Out LoudasJudith Moore
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TimecodeasRenee Fishbine
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Roe vs. WadeasEllen Russell / Jane Doe
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When Billie Beat BobbyasBillie Jean King
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Trespassing BergmanasSelf
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Once AroundasRenata Bella
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Breakable YouasEleanor Weller
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A Gathering of Old MenasCandy Marshall
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End of the LineasCharlotte
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My Darling VivianasSelf (archive footage)
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LevityasAdele Easley
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Woman WantedasEmma Riley
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The Positively True Adventures of the Alleged Texas Cheerleader-Murdering MomasWanda Holloway
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Searching for Debra WingerasSelf
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ManglehornasDawn
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Portraits in Dramatic Timeas
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Hurricannaas
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Strange WeatherasDarcy Baylor
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Animal BehaviorasCoral Grable
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Crazy in LoveasGeorgie Symonds
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SvengaliasLeslie
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With Intent to KillasWynn Nolen
An Uncommon LoveasKaren
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Festival in CannesasSelf (uncredited)
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Moonlight Mile: A Journey to ScreenasSelf / Mona Camp
The Coen BrothersasSelf
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JackieasJackie
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Inside 'The Piano'asSelf
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Down from the MountainasSelf
SangreasCafe waitress
From the Bottom of the Lakeasherself
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Rabbit Ears - The Three Billy Goats Gruff/The Three Little PigsasNarrator (voice)
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Pizza NightasHelen Parr (voice)
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Chore Day - The Incredibles WayasHelen Parr (Voice)
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The Making of ThirteenasSelf