Personal Info
Known For:
Acting
Birthday:
March 20, 1958
Place of Birth:
Conyers, Georgia, USA
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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
Filmography
| Year | Movie | Role |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | The Electric State | Madeline Vance |
| 2024 | Pizza Night | Helen Parr (voice) |
| 2023 | Lynch/Oz | Ada McGrath (archive footage) (uncredited) |
| 2021 | Chore Day - The Incredibles Way | Helen Parr (Voice) |
| 2020 | My Darling Vivian | Self (archive footage) |
| 2018 | Bergman: A Year in a Life | Self |
| 2018 | Incredibles 2 | Helen Parr / Elastigirl (voice) |
| 2017 | Breakable You | Eleanor Weller |
| 2017 | Song to Song | Miranda |
| 2017 | The Big Sick | Beth Gardner |
| 2017 | Spielberg | Self |
| 2016 | Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice | Senator Finch |
| 2016 | Strange Weather | Darcy Baylor |
| 2015 | Manglehorn | Dawn |
| 2014 | And the Oscar Goes To... | Self (archive footage) |
| 2013 | Paradise | Melanie Mannerheim |
| 2013 | From the Bottom of the Lake | herself |
| 2013 | Trespassing Bergman | Self |
| 2012 | Jackie | Jackie |
| 2012 | Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen | (archive footage) |
| 2012 | Won't Back Down | Evelyn Riske |
| 2011 | Portraits in Dramatic Time | |
| 2006 | Sangre | Cafe waitress |
| 2005 | The Big White | Margaret Barnell |
| 2005 | Nine Lives | Sonia |
| 2004 | Little Black Book | Barb |
| 2004 | The Incredibles | Helen Parr / Elastigirl (voice) |
| 2003 | Thirteen | Melanie |
| 2003 | Levity | Adele Easley |
| 2003 | Moonlight Mile: A Journey to Screen | Self / Mona Camp |
| 2002 | Moonlight Mile | Mona Camp |
| 2002 | Searching for Debra Winger | Self |
| 2001 | When Billie Beat Bobby | Billie Jean King |
| 2001 | Down from the Mountain | Self |
| 2001 | Festival in Cannes | Self (uncredited) |
| 2000 | O Brother, Where Art Thou? | Penny |
| 2000 | Things You Can Tell Just by Looking at Her | Rebecca Waynon (segment "Fantasies About Rebecca") |
| 2000 | Jesus' Son | Mira |
| 2000 | Timecode | Renee Fishbine |
| 2000 | Harlan County War | Ruby Kincaid |
| 2000 | The Coen Brothers | Self |
| 1999 | Woman Wanted | Emma Riley |
| 1998 | Living Out Loud | Judith Moore |
| 1997 | A Life Less Ordinary | O'Reilly |
| 1996 | Crash | Helen Remington |
| 1995 | Copycat | M.J. Monahan |
| 1995 | Home for the Holidays | Claudia Larson |
| 1993 | The Piano | Ada McGrath |
| 1993 | The Firm | Tammy Hemphill |
| 1993 | The Positively True Adventures of the Alleged Texas Cheerleader-Murdering Mom | Wanda Holloway |
| 1993 | Inside 'The Piano' | Self |
| 1992 | Crazy in Love | Georgie Symonds |
| 1991 | Once Around | Renata Bella |
| 1989 | Always | Dorinda Durston |
| 1989 | Roe vs. Wade | Ellen Russell / Jane Doe |
| 1989 | Miss Firecracker | Carnelle Scott |
| 1989 | Rabbit Ears - The Three Billy Goats Gruff/The Three Little Pigs | Narrator (voice) |
| 1989 | Animal Behavior | Coral Grable |
| 1987 | Raising Arizona | Ed |
| 1987 | Broadcast News | Jane Craig |
| 1987 | End of the Line | Charlotte |
| 1987 | A Gathering of Old Men | Candy Marshall |
| 1984 | Swing Shift | Jeannie Sherman |
| 1984 | Blood Simple | Helene Trend (voice) (uncredited) |
| 1984 | With Intent to Kill | Wynn Nolen |
| 1983 | Svengali | Leslie |
| 1983 | An Uncommon Love | Karen |
| 1981 | The Burning | Sophie |
| Hurricanna | ||
| The Making of Thirteen | Self |