Holly Hunter

Known for ActingBorn 1958-03-20 (age 68)Conyers, Georgia, USA

Holly Hunter (born March 20, 1958) is an American actress. Born in Conyers, Georgia, she first appeared as Helen Keller in a fifth-grade play before starring in Rockdale County High School stagings of Oklahoma!, Man of La Mancha, and Fiddler on the Roof. In Pittsburgh, she graduated from Carnegie Mellon University with a degree in drama and performed in local theatre. She then moved to New York City with Frances McDormand, beginning a Broadway career. After appearing in the 1981 slasher film The Burning, she moved to Los Angeles a year later, taking on various supporting roles in theatrical and television films before starring in Raising Arizona (1987) and receiving an Academy Award nomination for her role in Broadcast News (1987). She later went on to win two Primetime Emmy Awards for her performances in the television films Roe vs. Wade (1989) and The Positively True Adventures of the Alleged Texas Cheerleader-Murdering Mom (1993). For her performance as a mute Scottish woman in The Piano (1993), she won the Academy Award for Best Actress. Later, she was nominated for two more Oscars for The Firm (1993) and Thirteen (2003). Other major accolades she has won include an AACTA Award, a Silver Bear, a BAFTA Award, a Cannes Film Festival Award and a Golden Globe. Description above from the Wikipedia article Holly Hunter, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.Read more

Movies & web series

The Frame

Moonlight Mile: A Journey to Screen

Peep and the Big Wide World

Succession

Portraits in Dramatic Time

Eco-Challenge

Big Mouth

The Incredibles

The Coen Brothers

Spielberg

Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen

Incredibles 2

Bergman: A Year in a Life

Inside the Actors Studio

Down from the Mountain

The Big Sick

Bonnie & Clyde

Saving Grace

Pixar Popcorn

O Brother, Where Art Thou?

The Piano

My Darling Vivian

Late Night with Conan O'Brien

Top of the Lake

Blood Simple

The Comey Rule

Harlan County War

Raising Arizona

The Electric State

Here and Now

Mr. Mayor

Trespassing Bergman

Jackie

Thirteen

The Firm

Bless the Harts

Broadcast News

The Oscars

Crash

Copycat

Searching for Debra Winger

American Experience

With Intent to Kill

The Positively True Adventures of the Alleged Texas Cheerleader-Murdering Mom

Moonlight Mile

Jesus' Son

The Big White

Won't Back Down