Linda Hunt

Linda Hunt

79 · Born: Apr 2, 1945

Known For

The Year of Living Dangerously The Year of Living Dangerously
Pocahontas Pocahontas
Kindergarten Cop Kindergarten Cop
Dune Dune

Personal Details

Height 4' 9"
Born Apr 2, 1945 Morristown, New Jersey, USA
Parents
  • Elsie Doying
  • Raymond Davy Hunter

Biography

​Linda Hunt (born April 2, 1945) is an American film, stage and television actress. She is perhaps best known for her Academy Award-winning role in 1982's The Year of Living Dangerously. She is currently portraying the role of Henrietta "Hetty" Lange, Office of Special Projects Operations Manager on the CBS Television series NCIS: Los Angeles.

Career

2017
The Relationtrip
The Relationtrip as Dr. Lipschweiss
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2014
Scorpion
Scorpion as Hetty Lange
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2010
Sacred Earth
Sacred Earth as Narrator
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2009
American Experience
American Experience as Narrator
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NCIS: Los Angeles
NCIS: Los Angeles as Henrietta "Hetty" Lange
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2006
The Path to Nuclear Fission: The Story of Lise Meitner and Otto Hahn
The Path to Nuclear Fission: The Story of Lise Meitner and Otto Hahn
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2005
Auschwitz: Inside the Nazi State
Auschwitz: Inside the Nazi State
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2003
Before We Ruled the Earth
Before We Ruled the Earth as Narrator
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2002
Shadow Play: Indonesia's Year of Living Dangerously
Shadow Play: Indonesia's Year of Living Dangerously as Narrator
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American Experience
American Experience as Narrator
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2000
Who Owns the Past?
Who Owns the Past? as Narrator
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1998
American Experience
American Experience as Narrator
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Out of the Past
Out of the Past as Narrator
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Pocahontas 2: Journey to a New World (1998) (V)
Pocahontas 2: Journey to a New World (1998) (V) as Grandmother Willow (voice)
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1997
Paul Monette: The Brink of Summer's End
Paul Monette: The Brink of Summer's End as narrator
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Titanic: Untold Stories
Titanic: Untold Stories as Narrator
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Amazon
Amazon as Narrator (voice)
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The Relic
The Relic as Dr. Ann Cuthbert
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The Practice
The Practice as Judge Zoey Hiller
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1995
Third Stone from the Sun
Third Stone from the Sun as The Varua
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Pocahontas
Pocahontas as Grandmother Willow (voice)
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1993
Twenty Bucks
Twenty Bucks as Angeline
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Younger and Younger
Younger and Younger as Frances
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Space Rangers
Space Rangers as Cmdr. Chennault
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1992
Nonesense and Lullabyes: Nursery Rhymes
Nonesense and Lullabyes: Nursery Rhymes as (voice)
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Nonesense and Lullabyes: Poems
Nonesense and Lullabyes: Poems as (voice)
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Ishi: The Last Yahi
Ishi: The Last Yahi as Narrator
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1991
Wild by Law
Wild by Law as Narrator
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If Looks Could Kill
If Looks Could Kill as Ilsa Grunt
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1990
Kindergarten Cop
Kindergarten Cop as Miss Schlowski
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1989
She-Devil
She-Devil as Hooper
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1987
The Room Upstairs
The Room Upstairs as Mrs. Sanders
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Waiting for the Moon
Waiting for the Moon as Alice B. Toklas
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Basements
Basements as Rose (segment "The Room")
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1986
Arena
Arena as Narrator
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1985
Eleni
Eleni as Katina
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Silverado
Silverado as Stella
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1984
Dune
Dune as Shadout Mapes
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The Bostonians
The Bostonians as Dr. Prance
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1982
The Year of Living Dangerously
The Year of Living Dangerously as Billy Kwan
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1976
Great Performances
Great Performances as Nora
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2006
The Singing Revolution
The Singing Revolution
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