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 (2007β2010).
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 (100)
Incredibles 3
2028
Star Trek: Starfleet Academy
2026
Hurricanna
2025
The Electric State
2025
Incredicoaster | Disneyland Resort
2025
LEGO Pixar: BrickToons
2024
Mulligan
2023
Mr. Mayor
2021
Pixar Popcorn
2021
My Darling Vivian
2020
The Comey Rule
2020
Bless the Harts
2019
Bergman: A Year in a Life
2018
Incredibles 2
2018
Here and Now
2018
Succession
2018
Breakable You
2017
Song to Song
2017
The Big Sick
2017
Spielberg
2017
Big Mouth
2017
Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice
2016
Strange Weather
2016
Manglehorn
2015
Late Night with Seth Meyers
2014
Off Camera with Sam Jones
2014
Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
2014
Paradise
2013
From the Bottom of the Lake
2013
Trespassing Bergman
2013
Top of the Lake
2013
Bonnie & Clyde
2013
The Frame
2013
Jackie
2012
Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen
2012
Won't Back Down
2012
Portraits in Dramatic Time
2011
Skavlan
2009
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
2009
Late Night with Jimmy Fallon
2009
Saving Grace
2007
Sangre
2006
The Big White
2005
Nine Lives
2005
Little Black Book
2004
The Incredibles
2004
Peep and the Big Wide World
2004
Thirteen
2003
Levity
2003
Moonlight Mile: A Journey to Screen
2003
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
2003
Moonlight Mile
2002
Searching for Debra Winger
2002
When Billie Beat Bobby
2001
Down from the Mountain
2001
Festival in Cannes
2001
O Brother, Where Art Thou?
2000
Things You Can Tell Just by Looking at Her
2000
Jesus' Son
2000
Timecode
2000
Harlan County War
2000
The Coen Brothers
2000
Woman Wanted
1999
Living Out Loud
1998
A Life Less Ordinary
1997
The View
1997
Crash
1996
The Rosie O'Donnell Show
1996
Copycat
1995
Home for the Holidays
1995
Eco-Challenge
1995
Inside the Actors Studio
1994
The Piano
1993
The Firm
1993
The Positively True Adventures of the Alleged Texas Cheerleader-Murdering Mom
1993
Inside 'The Piano'
1993
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
1993
Intimate Portrait
1993
Crazy in Love
1992
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
1992
Once Around
1991
Always
1989
Roe vs. Wade
1989
Miss Firecracker
1989
Rabbit Ears - The Three Billy Goats Gruff/The Three Little Pigs
1989
Animal Behavior
1989
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
1988
American Experience
1988
Raising Arizona
1987
Broadcast News
1987
End of the Line
1987
A Gathering of Old Men
1987
Blood Simple
1985
Swing Shift
1984
With Intent to Kill
1984
Svengali
1983
An Uncommon Love
1983
The Burning
1981
Entertainment Tonight
1981
The Oscars
1953
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