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Holly Hunter
Hunter in 1994
Born	20 March 1958 (1958-03-20) (age 50) Conyers, Georgia, USA
Occupation	actress / producer
Years active	1981 - present
Spouse(s)	Janusz Kaminski (1995 - 2001) (divorced)
Domestic partner(s)	Gordon MacDonald (2001-present) 2 children
Awards won Academy Awards Best Actress 1993 The Piano Australian Film Institute Awards Best Actress in a Leading Role 1993 The Piano BAFTA Awards Best Actress in a Leading Role 1993 The Piano Emmy Awards Best Actress in a Mini-series or Movie 1989 Roe vs. Wade 1993 The Positively True Adventures of the Alleged Texas Cheerleader-Murdering Mom Golden Globe Awards Best Actress - Motion Picture Drama 1993 The Piano Other awards Silver Bear for Best Actress - Berlin Film Festival 1988 Broadcast News Best Actress Award - Cannes Film Festival 1993 The Piano

Holly P. Hunter (born 20 March 1958) is an Oscar-winning American actress, best-known for films such as Raising Arizona, Broadcast News and The Piano. She's also well known for starring in the cable television series Saving Grace.

Contents 1 Biography 1.1 Early life and career 1.2 Stage and film 1.3 Personal life 2 Filmography 3 Awards 4 References 5 External links

Biography

Early life and career

Hunter was born in Conyers, Georgia, the daughter of Opal Marguerite (née Catledge), a housewife, and Charles Edwin Hunter, a farmer and sporting-goods manufacturer's representative.¹ Hunter earned a degree in drama from Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, after which she moved to New York City and roomed with fellow actress Frances McDormand. Hunter in 2008 described living in The Bronx "at the end of the D [subway] train, just off 205th Street, on Bainbridge Avenue and Hull Avenue. It was very Irish, and then you could go just a few blocks away and hit major Italian".² A chance encounter with playwright Beth Henley, when the two were trapped alone in an elevator, led to Hunter's being cast in Henley's plays Crimes of the Heart (succeeding Mary Beth Hurt on Broadway), and Off-Broadway's The Miss Firecracker Contest. "It was like the beginning of 1982. It was on 49th Street between Broadway and Eighth [Avenue] [...] on the south side of the street", Hunter recalled in an interview. "[We were trapped] 10 minutes; not long. We actually had a nice conversation. It was just the two of us".²

When she moved to Los Angeles, California, in 1982, Hunter shared a house with a group of people that included McDormand and director Sam Raimi, as well as future collaborators Joel and Ethan Coen.^{citation needed}.

Stage and film

Hunter made her screen debut in the 1981 horror movie The Burning. After moving to Los Angeles, California in 1982, Hunter appeared in TV-movies before being cast in a supporting role in 1984's Swing Shift. The year, she had her first collaboration with the writing-directing-producing team of brothers Ethan Coen and Joel Coen, in Blood Simple, making an uncredited appearance as a voice on an answering-machine recording. More film and television work followed until 1987, when thanks to a starring role in the Coens' Raising Arizona and her Academy Award-nominated turn in Broadcast News, Hunter became a critically acclaimed star. She went on to the screen adaptation of Henley's Miss Firecracker; Steven Spielberg's Always, a romantic drama with Richard Dreyfuss; and the made-for-TV docudrama about the titular Supreme Court abortion case, Roe vs. Wade (1989)

Following her second collaboration with Dreyfuss, in Once Around (1991), Hunter garnered critical appreciation for her work in three 1993 films, two of which resulted in her being nominated for two Academy Awards the same year: Hunter's performance in The Firm won her a nomination as Best Supporting Actress, while her portrayal of a mute Scottish woman entangled in a treacherous affair with Harvey Keitel in Jane Campion's The Piano won her the Best Actress award. Hunter went on to appear in such poorly received films as the comedy-drama Home for the Holidays (1995) and the thriller Copycat (1995) Her work in David Cronenberg's Crash (1996) did win her strong notices,^{citation needed}, but it was swallowed by the controversies^{citation needed} surrounding the film, and her appearance as a sardonic angel in A Life Less Ordinary (1997) suffered a similar fate.^{citation needed} The following year, she played a recently divorced New Yorker in Richard LaGravenese's Living Out Loud; starring alongside Danny DeVito, Queen Latifah, and Martin Donovan, Hunter won positive reviews for her performance.^{citation needed} Hunter rounded out the 1990s with a minor role in the independent drama Jesus' Son and as a housekeeper torn between a grieving widower and Kiefer Sutherland's drama Woman Wanted (1999).

Following a supporting role in the Coens' O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000), Hunter took top billing in the same year's television movie Harlan County War, an account of labor struggles among Kentucky coal-mine workers. Hunter would continue her small screen streak with a role in When Billie Beat Bobby (2001), playing tennis pro Billie Jean King in the fact-based story of King's famed exhibition match with Bobby Riggs; and as narrator of Eco Challenge New Zealand before returning to film work with a minor role in the 2002 drama Moonlight Mile. The following year found Hunter drawing favorable reviews^{citation needed} for her role in the otherwise critically maligned^{citation needed} redemption drama Levity. Also in 2003, Hunter had a supporting role in the acclaimed^{citation needed} film Thirteen for which she received a Best Supporting Actress Oscar nomination.

In 2004, Hunter starred alongside Brittany Murphy in the romantic satire Little Black Book, and the same year lent her voice to the animated film The Incredibles as the voice of Helen Parr, ak.a. the superheroine Elastigirl. In 2005, Hunter starred along side Robin Williams in the black comedy-drama The Big White.

Hunter became an executive producer, and helped develop a starring vehicle for herself with the TNT cable-network drama Saving Grace, which premiered in July 2007. For her acting, she received a Golden Globe Award nomination, a Screen Actors Guild Award nomination, and an Emmy Award nomination. On May 30, 2008 Hunter received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

Personal life

For many years, Hunter was in a relationship with actor Arliss Howard. She was married to Polish cinematographer Janusz Kaminski from 20 May 1995 until their divorce on 21 December 2001. Since 2001, she has been in a relationship with American actor Gordon MacDonald, with whom she co-starred in Marina Carr's By the Bog of Cats in a 2001 run at the San Jose Repertory Theater, and later in a 2004 West End production of the same play. In January 2006, Hunter's publicist announced that Hunter had given birth to the couple's twins at the age of 47;³ Entertainment Weekly later reported that the twins were boys.

Holly's cousin is Tim Salmon,^{citation needed} former right fielder and designated hitter of the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim major league baseball team.

Filmography

Year	Film	Role	Other notes
1981	The Burning	Sophie
1984	Swing Shift	Jeannie
	Blood Simple	Helene Trend (voice only)	uncredited
1987	Raising Arizona	Edwina 'Ed' McDunnough
	End of the Line	Charlotte
	Broadcast News	Jane Craig	Nominated - Academy Award for Best Actress
1989	Miss Firecracker	Carnelle Scott
	Animal Behavior	Coral Grable
	Always	Dorinda Durston
1991	Once Around	Renata Bella
1993	The Piano	Ada McGrath	Academy Award for Best Actress; BAFTA Award; Golden Globe
	The Firm	Tammy Hemphill	Nominated - Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress; Nominated - BAFTA Award; Nominated - Golden Globe
1995	Copycat	M.J. Monahan
	Home for the Holidays	Claudia Larson
1996	Crash	Helen Remington
1997	A Life Less Ordinary	O'Reilly
1998	Living Out Loud	Judith Moore
1999	Jesus' Son	Mira
2000	Things You Can Tell Just by Looking at Her	Rebecca Weyman	segment "Fantasies About Rebecca"
	Woman Wanted	Emma Riley
	Timecode	Renee Fishbine, Executive
	O Brother, Where Art Thou?	Penny
	Down from the Mountain	Herself	documentary
2001	Festival in Cannes	Herself	Uncredited
2002	Searching for Debra Winger	Herself	documentary
	Moonlight Mile	Mona Camp
2003	Rock That Uke	Narrator	documentary
	Levity	Adele Easley
	Thirteen	Melanie Freeland	Nominated - Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress; Nominated - BAFTA Award; Nominated - Golden Globe
2004	Little Black Book	Barb Campbell-Dunn
	The Incredibles	Helen Parr / Elastigirl	voice
2005	Nine Lives	Sonia
	The Big White	Margaret Barnell
2007	Saving Grace (TV series)	Grace Hanadarko	Nominated - Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress - Drama Series

Awards

Main article: List of Holly Hunter awards and nominations

Holly Hunter has won several major awards, including Academy, Emmy and Golden Globe Awards. In 1994, she won the Academy Award for Best Leading Actress for her portrayal as "Ada McGrath" in The Piano. She also won a Golden Globe for that same role.

References

External links

• Holly Hunter at the Internet Movie Database
• Holly Hunter at the Notable Names Database
• "What people don't know about Holly" (Interview), The Guardian, 22 November 2003

Awards
Preceded by Ana Beatriz Nogueira for Vera	Berlin Silver Bear for Best Actress 1988 for Broadcast News	Succeeded by Isabelle Adjani for Camille Claudel
Preceded by Pernilla August for The Best Intentions	Award for Best Actress - Cannes Film Festival 1993 for The Piano	Succeeded by Virna Lisi for La Reine Margot
Preceded by Emma Thompson for Howards End	Golden Globe Award for Best Actress - Motion Picture Drama 1994 for The Piano	Succeeded by Jessica Lange for Blue Sky
Preceded by Sissy Spacek for Crimes of the Heart	NYFCC Award for Best Actress 1987 for Broadcast News	Succeeded by Meryl Streep for A Cry in the Dark
Preceded by Emma Thompson for Howards End	NYFCC Award for Best Actress 1993 for The Piano	Succeeded by Linda Fiorentino for The Last Seduction

v • d • e Academy Award for Best Actress Katharine Hepburn (1981) · Meryl Streep (1982) · Shirley MacLaine (1983) · Sally Field (1984) · Geraldine Page (1985) · Marlee Matlin (1986) · Cher (1987) · Jodie Foster (1988) · Jessica Tandy (1989) · Kathy Bates (1990) · Jodie Foster (1991) · Emma Thompson (1992) · Holly Hunter (1993) · Jessica Lange (1994) · Susan Sarandon (1995) · Frances McDormand (1996) · Helen Hunt (1997) · Gwyneth Paltrow (1998) · Hilary Swank (1999) · Julia Roberts (2000) Complete list · (1928–1940) · (1941–1960) · (1961–1980) · (1981–2000) · (2001-present)

v • d • e Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress - Miniseries or a Movie Susan Clark / Rosemary Harris (1976) · Sally Field / Patty Duke (1977) · Joanne Woodward / Meryl Streep (1978) · Bette Davis (1979) · Patty Duke (1980) · Vanessa Redgrave (1981) · Ingrid Bergman (1982) · Barbara Stanwyck (1983) · Jane Fonda (1984) · Joanne Woodward (1985) · Marlo Thomas (1986) · Gena Rowlands (1987) · Jessica Tandy (1988) · Holly Hunter (1989) · Barbara Hershey (1990) · Lynn Whitfield (1991) · Gena Rowlands (1992) · Holly Hunter (1993) · Kirstie Alley (1994) · Glenn Close (1995) · Helen Mirren (1996) · Alfre Woodard (1997) · Ellen Barkin (1998) · Helen Mirren (1999) · Halle Berry (2000) Complete list: (1954-1975) · (1976-2000) · (2001-present)

Persondata
NAME	Hunter, Holly
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Hunter, Holly P.
SHORT DESCRIPTION	Actress
DATE OF BIRTH	20 March 1958
PLACE OF BIRTH	Conyers, Georgia, United States
DATE OF DEATH
PLACE OF DEATH

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