Place of Birth:
Conyers, Georgia, USA
Date of Birth:
3/20/1958
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.
O Brother, Where Art Thou?
Crash
Raising Arizona
The Piano
Copycat
Things You Can Tell Just by Looking at Her
Thirteen
Always
Moonlight Mile
The Burning
A Life Less Ordinary
Jesus' Son
Hurricanna
Home for the Holidays
Broadcast News
The Big White
Timecode
Little Black Book
The Firm
Nine Lives
Once Around
Swing Shift
Living Out Loud
The Positively True Adventures of the Alleged Texas Cheerleader-Murdering Mom
End of the Line
Woman Wanted
When Billie Beat Bobby
A Gathering of Old Men
Jackie
Crazy in Love
Paradise
Harlan County War
Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen
Manglehorn
Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice
Roe vs. Wade
Miss Firecracker
Levity
Sangre
From the Bottom of the Lake
Blood Simple
Won't Back Down
Strange Weather
The Incredibles
Breakable You
Portraits in Dramatic Time
Song to Song
The Big Sick
Rabbit Ears - The Three Billy Goats Gruff/The Three Little Pigs
Moonlight Mile: A Journey to Screen
Spielberg
Trespassing Bergman
The Coen Brothers
Bergman: A Year in a Life
Incredibles 2
Animal Behavior
And the Oscar Goes To...
Svengali
My Darling Vivian
Down from the Mountain
Searching for Debra Winger
An Uncommon Love
Festival in Cannes
With Intent to Kill
The Electric State
Inside 'The Piano'