Holly Hunter
Born: 1958-03-20 in Conyers, Georgia, USA
Known For: Acting
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 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.
Filmography
2026
- Star Trek: Starfleet Academy as Nahla Ake
2025
- The Electric State as Madeline Vance
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)
- Bergman: A Year in a Life as Self
- Here and Now as Audrey Bayer-Boatwright
2017
- Big Mouth
- Breakable You as Eleanor Weller
- The Big Sick as Beth Gardner
- Spielberg as Self
- Song to Song as Miranda
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
- Variety Studio: Actors on Actors as Self
- Off Camera with Sam Jones as Self
2013
- Trespassing Bergman as Self
- Paradise as Melanie Mannerheim
- Top of the Lake as GJ
- The Frame as Helen Remington
- From the Bottom of the Lake as herself
- Bonnie & Clyde as Emma Parker
2012
- Jackie as Jackie
- Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen as (archive footage)
- Won't Back Down as Evelyn Riske
2009
- Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen as Self - Guest
- Late Night with Jimmy Fallon as Self
- 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)
- Little Black Book as Barb
2003
- The Ellen DeGeneres Show as Self
- Levity as Adele Easley
- Thirteen as Melanie
- Moonlight Mile: A Journey to Screen as Self / Mona Camp
2002
- Moonlight Mile as Mona Camp
- Searching for Debra Winger as Self
2001
- When Billie Beat Bobby as Billie Jean King
- Down from the Mountain as Self
- Festival in Cannes as Self (uncredited)
2000
- O Brother, Where Art Thou? as Penny
- Jesus' Son as Mira
- Lost Souls ... (Thanks)
- Things You Can Tell Just by Looking at Her as Rebecca Waynon (segment "Fantasies About Rebecca")
- Harlan County War as Ruby Kincaid
- Timecode as Renee Fishbine
- The Coen Brothers as Self
1999
- Woman Wanted as Emma Riley
1998
- Living Out Loud as Judith Moore
1997
- The View as Self
- 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
- Crazy in Love as Georgie Symonds
1991
- Once Around as Renata Bella
1989
- Always as Dorinda Durston
- Animal Behavior as Coral Grable
- Roe vs. Wade as Ellen Russell / Jane Doe
- Miss Firecracker as Carnelle Scott
- 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
- Broadcast News as Jane Craig
- Raising Arizona as Ed
- A Gathering of Old Men as Candy Marshall
- End of the Line as Charlotte
1985
- Blood Simple as Helene Trend (voice) (uncredited)
1984
- Swing Shift as Jeannie Sherman
- With Intent to Kill as Wynn Nolen
1983
- Svengali as Leslie
- An Uncommon Love as Karen
1981
- The Burning as Sophie
- Entertainment Tonight as Self
1953
- The Oscars as Self