
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

Batman v Superman: Dawn of JusticeasSenator Finch

The IncrediblesasHelen Parr / Elastigirl (voice)

The Electric StateasMadeline Vance

Incredibles 2asHelen Parr / Elastigirl (voice)

The FirmasTammy Hemphill

CrashasHelen Remington

O Brother, Where Art Thou?asPenny

ThirteenasMelanie

The PianoasAda McGrath

CopycatasM.J. Monahan

The Big SickasBeth Gardner

Miss FirecrackerasCarnelle Scott

Raising ArizonaasEd

Harlan County WarasRuby Kincaid

Blood SimpleasHelene Trend (voice) (uncredited)

The BurningasSophie

Song to SongasMiranda

A Life Less OrdinaryasO'Reilly

Broadcast NewsasJane Craig

Lynch/OzasAda McGrath (archive footage) (uncredited)

AlwaysasDorinda Durston

Nine LivesasSonia

SpielbergasSelf

Bergman: A Year in a LifeasSelf

And the Oscar Goes To...asSelf (archive footage)

The Big WhiteasMargaret Barnell

Little Black BookasBarb

Home for the HolidaysasClaudia Larson

Moonlight MileasMona Camp

Jesus' SonasMira

Won't Back DownasEvelyn Riske

Swing ShiftasJeannie Sherman

Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemenas(archive footage)

ParadiseasMelanie Mannerheim

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

Living Out LoudasJudith Moore

TimecodeasRenee Fishbine

Roe vs. WadeasEllen Russell / Jane Doe

When Billie Beat BobbyasBillie Jean King

Trespassing BergmanasSelf

Once AroundasRenata Bella

Breakable YouasEleanor Weller

A Gathering of Old MenasCandy Marshall

End of the LineasCharlotte

My Darling VivianasSelf (archive footage)

LevityasAdele Easley

Woman WantedasEmma Riley

The Positively True Adventures of the Alleged Texas Cheerleader-Murdering MomasWanda Holloway

Searching for Debra WingerasSelf

ManglehornasDawn

Portraits in Dramatic Timeas

Hurricannaas

Strange WeatherasDarcy Baylor

Animal BehaviorasCoral Grable

Crazy in LoveasGeorgie Symonds

SvengaliasLeslie

With Intent to KillasWynn Nolen
An Uncommon LoveasKaren

Festival in CannesasSelf (uncredited)

Moonlight Mile: A Journey to ScreenasSelf / Mona Camp
The Coen BrothersasSelf

JackieasJackie

Inside 'The Piano'asSelf

Down from the MountainasSelf
SangreasCafe waitress
From the Bottom of the Lakeasherself

Rabbit Ears - The Three Billy Goats Gruff/The Three Little PigsasNarrator (voice)

Pizza NightasHelen Parr (voice)

Chore Day - The Incredibles WayasHelen Parr (Voice)

The Making of ThirteenasSelf