Holly Hunter
Born: 1958-03-20 in Conyers, Georgia, USA
Known For: Acting
Biography
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.
Filmography
2028
- Incredibles 3 as Helen Parr / Elastigirl (voice)
2026
- Star Trek: Starfleet Academy as Nahla Ake
2025
- The Electric State as Madeline Vance
- Hurricanna
- Incredicoaster | Disneyland Resort as Elastigirl (voice)
2024
- LEGO Pixar: BrickToons as Helen Parr (voice)
2023
- Mulligan as (voice)
2021
- Mr. Mayor as Arpi
- Pixar Popcorn as Helen Parr (voice)
2020
- The Comey Rule as Sally Yates
- My Darling Vivian as Self (archive footage)
2019
- Bless the Harts as Marjune (voice)
2018
- Succession as Rhea Jarrell
- Incredibles 2 as Helen Parr / Elastigirl (voice)
- Here and Now as Audrey Bayer-Boatwright
- Bergman: A Year in a Life as Self
2017
- Big Mouth
- The Big Sick as Beth Gardner
- Song to Song as Miranda
- Spielberg as Self
- Breakable You as Eleanor Weller
2016
- Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice as Senator Finch
- Strange Weather as Darcy Baylor
2015
- Manglehorn as Dawn
2014
- Late Night with Seth Meyers as Self - Guest
- Variety Studio: Actors on Actors as Self
- Off Camera with Sam Jones as Self
2013
- Top of the Lake as GJ
- The Frame as Helen Remington
- Bonnie & Clyde as Emma Parker
- Trespassing Bergman as Self
- Paradise as Melanie Mannerheim
- From the Bottom of the Lake as herself
2012
- Won't Back Down as Evelyn Riske
- Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen as (archive footage)
- Jackie as Jackie
2009
- Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen as Self - Guest
- Late Night with Jimmy Fallon as Self - Guest
- Skavlan as Self - Guest
2007
- Saving Grace as Grace Hanadarko
2006
- Sangre as Cafe waitress
2005
- Nine Lives as Sonia
- The Big White as Margaret Barnell
2004
- The Incredibles as Helen Parr / Elastigirl (voice)
- Peep and the Big Wide World as Robin (voice)
- Little Black Book as Barb
2003
- The Ellen DeGeneres Show as Self - Guest
- Thirteen as Melanie
- Levity as Adele Easley
- Moonlight Mile: A Journey to Screen as Self / Mona Camp
2002
- Moonlight Mile as Mona Camp
- Searching for Debra Winger as Self
2001
- Festival in Cannes as Self (uncredited)
- When Billie Beat Bobby as Billie Jean King
- Down from the Mountain as Self
2000
- O Brother, Where Art Thou? as Penny
- Lost Souls ... (Thanks)
- Jesus' Son as Mira
- Timecode as Renee Fishbine
- Things You Can Tell Just by Looking at Her as Rebecca Waynon (segment "Fantasies About Rebecca")
- Harlan County War as Ruby Kincaid
- The Coen Brothers as Self
1999
- Woman Wanted as Emma Riley
1998
- Living Out Loud as Judith Moore
1997
- The View as Self - Guest
- A Life Less Ordinary as O'Reilly
1996
- Crash as Helen Remington
- The Rosie O'Donnell Show as Self - Guest
1995
- Copycat as M.J. Monahan
- Home for the Holidays as Claudia Larson
- Eco-Challenge
1994
- Inside the Actors Studio as Self
1993
- Late Night with Conan O'Brien as Self - Guest
- Intimate Portrait as Self
- The Piano as Ada McGrath
- The Firm as Tammy Hemphill
- The Positively True Adventures of the Alleged Texas Cheerleader-Murdering Mom as Wanda Holloway
- Inside 'The Piano' as Self
1992
- The Tonight Show with Jay Leno as Self - Guest
- Crazy in Love as Georgie Symonds
1991
- Once Around as Renata Bella
1989
- Always as Dorinda Durston
- Roe vs. Wade as Ellen Russell / Jane Doe
- Miss Firecracker as Carnelle Scott
- Animal Behavior as Coral Grable
- Rabbit Ears - The Three Billy Goats Gruff/The Three Little Pigs as Narrator (voice)
1988
- American Experience as Mary Lincoln (voice)
- LIVE with Kelly and Mark
1987
- Raising Arizona as Ed
- Broadcast News as Jane Craig
- End of the Line as Charlotte
- A Gathering of Old Men as Candy Marshall
1985
- Blood Simple as Helene Trend (voice) (uncredited)
1984
- Swing Shift as Jeannie Sherman
- With Intent to Kill as Wynn Nolen
1983
- An Uncommon Love as Karen
- Svengali as Leslie
1981
- Entertainment Tonight as Self
- The Burning as Sophie
1953
- The Oscars as Self