Holly Hunter

Acting · Born 1958-03-20 in Conyers, Georgia, USA

Biography

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…

Filmography

• O Brother, Where Art Thou? as Penny
• Crash as Helen Remington
• Raising Arizona as Ed
• The Piano as Ada McGrath
• Copycat as M.J. Monahan
• Things You Can Tell Just by Looking at Her as Rebecca Waynon (segment "Fantasies About Rebecca")
• Thirteen as Melanie
• Always as Dorinda Durston
• Moonlight Mile as Mona Camp
• The Burning as Sophie