Holly Hunter

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: Acting

Born: Conyers, Georgia, USA, 1958-03-20

Died: null

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1981	The Burning	Sophie	62
2	1984	Swing Shift	Jeannie Sherman	56
3	1987	Raising Arizona	Ed	71
4	1987	A Gathering of Old Men	Candy Marshall	60
5	1987	End of the Line	Charlotte	52
6	1987	Broadcast News	Jane Craig	67
7	1989	Always	Dorinda Durston	63
8	1991	Once Around	Renata Bella	61
9	1992	Crazy in Love	Georgie Symonds	44
10	1993	The Positively True Adventures of the Alleged Texas Cheerleader-Murdering Mom	Wanda Holloway	62
11	1993	The Piano	Ada McGrath	74
12	1993	The Firm	Tammy Hemphill	67
13	1995	Copycat	M.J. Monahan	65
14	1995	Home for the Holidays	Claudia Larson	63
15	1996	Crash	Helen Remington	64
16	1997	A Life Less Ordinary	O'Reilly	61
17	1998	Living Out Loud	Judith Moore	59
18	1999	Woman Wanted	Emma Riley	56
19	2000	Timecode	Renee Fishbine	56
20	2000	Harlan County War	Ruby Kincaid	71
21	2000	Things You Can Tell Just by Looking at Her	Rebecca Waynon (segment "Fantasies About Rebecca")	58
22	2000	Jesus' Son	Mira	63
23	2000	O Brother, Where Art Thou?	Penny	73
24	2001	When Billie Beat Bobby	Billie Jean King	55
25	2002	Moonlight Mile	Mona Camp	63
26	2003	Thirteen	Melanie	67
27		Hurricanna		0
28	1983	Svengali	Leslie	52
29	1983	An Uncommon Love	Karen	15
30	1984	Blood Simple	Helene Trend (voice) (uncredited)	72
31	1984	With Intent to Kill	Wynn Nolen	30
32	1989	Miss Firecracker	Carnelle Scott	56
33	1989	Roe vs. Wade	Ellen Russell / Jane Doe	64
34	1989	Rabbit Ears - The Three Billy Goats Gruff/The Three Little Pigs	Narrator (voice)	0
35	1989	Animal Behavior	Coral Grable	20
36	1993	Inside 'The Piano'	Self	0
37	2000	The Coen Brothers	Self	75
38	2001	Down from the Mountain	Self	76
39	2001	Festival in Cannes	Self (uncredited)	55
40	2002	Searching for Debra Winger	Self	63
41	2003	Moonlight Mile: A Journey to Screen	Self / Mona Camp	88
42	2003	Levity	Adele Easley	62
43	2004	Little Black Book	Barb	53
44	2004	The Incredibles	Helen Parr / Elastigirl (voice)	77
45	2005	Nine Lives	Sonia	60
46	2005	The Big White	Margaret Barnell	62
47	2006	Sangre	Cafe waitress	0
48	2011	Portraits in Dramatic Time		80
49	2012	Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen	(archive footage)	76
50	2012	Jackie	Jackie	67
51	2012	Won't Back Down	Evelyn Riske	61
52	2013	Trespassing Bergman	Self	66
53	2013	From the Bottom of the Lake	herself	0
54	2013	Paradise	Melanie Mannerheim	50
55	2014	And the Oscar Goes To...	Self (archive footage)	70
56	2015	Manglehorn	Dawn	54
57	2016	Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice	Senator Finch	60
58	2016	Strange Weather	Darcy Baylor	59
59	2017	Breakable You	Eleanor Weller	51
60	2017	Song to Song	Miranda	55
61	2017	The Big Sick	Beth Gardner	73
62	2017	Spielberg	Self	76
63	2018	Incredibles 2	Helen Parr / Elastigirl (voice)	75
64	2018	Bergman: A Year in a Life	Self	74
65	2020	My Darling Vivian	Self (archive footage)	75
66	2025	The Electric State	Madeline Vance	65
67		The Making of Thirteen	Self	0

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1953	The Oscars	Self	71
2	1981	Entertainment Tonight	Self	43
3	1988	LIVE with Kelly and Mark		56
4	1988	American Experience	Mary Lincoln (voice)	74
5	1992	The Tonight Show with Jay Leno		54
6	1993	Late Night with Conan O'Brien	Self - Guest	72
7	1993	Intimate Portrait	Self	45
8	1994	Inside the Actors Studio	Self	75
9	1995	Eco-Challenge		80
10	1996	The Rosie O'Donnell Show	Self - Guest	35
11	1997	The View	Self	45
12	2003	The Ellen DeGeneres Show	Self	57
13	2007	Saving Grace	Grace Hanadarko	76
14	2009	Skavlan	Self - Guest	50
15	2009	Late Night with Jimmy Fallon	Self	60
16	2009	Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen	Self - Guest	51
17	2013	Top of the Lake	GJ	71
18	2013	The Frame	Helen Remington	100
19	2013	Bonnie & Clyde	Emma Parker	73
20	2014	Off Camera with Sam Jones	Self	40
21	2014	Late Night with Seth Meyers	Self	53
22	2014	Variety Studio: Actors on Actors	Self	50
23	2017	Big Mouth		77
24	2018	Here and Now	Audrey Bayer-Boatwright	67
25	2018	Succession	Rhea Jarrell	83
26	2019	Bless the Harts	Marjune (voice)	67
27		Star Trek: Starfleet Academy		0
28	2020	The Comey Rule	Sally Yates	69
29	2021	Mr. Mayor	Arpi	66
30	2021	Pixar Popcorn	Helen Parr (voice)	72
31	2023	Mulligan	(voice)	57
32	2024	LEGO Pixar: BrickToons	Helen Parr (voice)	60

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