Holly Hunter

Holly Hunter

66 · Born: Mar 20, 1958

Personal Details

Born Mar 20, 1958 Conyers, Georgia, USA
Parents
  • Marguerite Hunter (Catledge)
  • Charles Edwin Hunter
Relatives
  • Sibling (Sibling)
  • Tim Salmon (Cousin)
  • Sibling (Sibling)

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.

Career

2021
Mr. Mayor
Mr. Mayor as Arpi
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2020
The Comey Rule
The Comey Rule as Sally Yates
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2019
Succession
Succession as Rhea Jarrell
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2018
Incredibles 2
Incredibles 2 as Helen Parr / Elastigirl (voice)
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Here and Now
Here and Now as Audrey Bayer-Boatwright
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2017
Breakable You
Breakable You as Eleanor Weller
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The Big Sick
The Big Sick as Beth Gardner
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Song to Song
Song to Song as Miranda
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2016
Strange Weather
Strange Weather as Darcy Baylor
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Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice
Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice as Senator June Finch
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2015
Manglehorn
Manglehorn as Dawn
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2013
Paradise
Paradise as Melanie Mannerheim
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Bonnie & Clyde
Bonnie & Clyde as Emma Parker
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Top of the Lake
Top of the Lake as GJ
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2012
Won't Back Down
Won't Back Down as Evelyn Riske
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Jackie
Jackie as Jackie
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2007
Saving Grace
Saving Grace as Grace Hanadarko
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2005
Nine Lives
Nine Lives as Sonia
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The Big White
The Big White as Margaret Barnell
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2004
The Incredibles
The Incredibles as Helen Parr / Elastigirl (voice)
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Little Black Book
Little Black Book as Barb
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2003
Thirteen
Thirteen as Melanie Freeland
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Levity
Levity as Adele Easley
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2001
When Billie Beat Bobby
When Billie Beat Bobby as Billie Jean King
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2000
O Brother, Where Art Thou?
O Brother, Where Art Thou? as Penny Wharvey-McGill
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Timecode
Timecode as Renee Fishbine
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Things You Can Tell Just by Looking at Her
Things You Can Tell Just by Looking at Her as Rebecca Waynon (segment "Fantasies About Rebecca")
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Harlan County War
Harlan County War as Ruby Kincaid
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1999
Woman Wanted
Woman Wanted as Emma Riley
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Jesus' Son
Jesus' Son as Mira
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1998
Living Out Loud
Living Out Loud as Judith Moore
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1997
A Life Less Ordinary
A Life Less Ordinary as O'Reilly
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1996
Crash
Crash as Helen Remington
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1995
Home for the Holidays
Home for the Holidays as Claudia Larson
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Copycat
Copycat as M.J. Monahan
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1993
The Firm
The Firm as Tammy Hemphill
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The Piano
The Piano as Ada McGrath
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1992
Crazy in Love
Crazy in Love as Georgie Symonds
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1991
Once Around
Once Around as Renata Bella
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1989
Miss Firecracker
Miss Firecracker as Carnelle Scott
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Animal Behavior
Animal Behavior as Coral Grable
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Always
Always as Dorinda Durston
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Roe vs. Wade
Roe vs. Wade as Ellen Russell / Jane Doe
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1987
A Gathering of Old Men
A Gathering of Old Men as Candy Marshall
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Broadcast News
Broadcast News as Jane Craig
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Raising Arizona
Raising Arizona as Ed
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End of the Line
End of the Line as Charlotte
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1984
Swing Shift
Swing Shift as Jeannie Sherman
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With Intent to Kill
With Intent to Kill as Wynn Nolen
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1983
Svengali
Svengali as Leslie
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An Uncommon Love
An Uncommon Love as Karen
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2020
My Darling Vivian
My Darling Vivian
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2001
Down from the Mountain
2000
The Coen Brothers
The Coen Brothers
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