Holly Hunter
Acting
1958-03-20 · Conyers, Georgia, USA
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
TheatersIncredibles 3
2028 · Movie
Star Trek: Starfleet Academy
2026 · Series
Incredicoaster | Disneyland Resort
2025 · Movie
Hurricanna
2025 · Movie
The Electric State
2025 · Movie
LEGO Pixar: BrickToons
2024 · Series
Mulligan
2023 · Series
Pixar Popcorn
2021 · Series
Mr. Mayor
2021 · Series
The Comey Rule
2020 · Series
My Darling Vivian
2020 · Movie
Bless the Harts
2019 · Series
Bergman: A Year in a Life
2018 · Movie
Incredibles 2
2018 · Movie
Succession
2018 · Series
Here and Now
2018 · Series
Spielberg
2017 · Movie
Big Mouth
2017 · Series
The Big Sick
2017 · Movie
Song to Song
2017 · Movie
Breakable You
2017 · Movie
Strange Weather
2016 · Movie
Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice
2016 · Movie
Manglehorn
2015 · Movie
Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
2014 · Series
Late Night with Seth Meyers
2014 · Series
Off Camera with Sam Jones
2014 · Series
Bonnie & Clyde
2013 · Series
Paradise
2013 · Movie
From the Bottom of the Lake
2013 · Movie
Trespassing Bergman
2013 · Movie
The Frame
2013 · Series
Top of the Lake
2013 · Series
Won't Back Down
2012 · Movie
Jackie
2012 · Movie
Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen
2012 · Movie
Portraits in Dramatic Time
2011 · Movie
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
2009 · Series
Late Night with Jimmy Fallon
2009 · Series
Skavlan
2009 · Series
Saving Grace
2007 · Series
Sangre
2006 · Movie
The Big White
2005 · Movie
Nine Lives
2005 · Movie
The Incredibles
2004 · Movie
Little Black Book
2004 · Movie
Peep and the Big Wide World
2004 · Series
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
2003 · Series
Thirteen
2003 · Movie
Levity
2003 · Movie
Moonlight Mile: A Journey to Screen
2003 · Movie
Moonlight Mile
2002 · Movie
Searching for Debra Winger
2002 · Movie
Festival in Cannes
2001 · Movie
Down from the Mountain
2001 · Movie
When Billie Beat Bobby
2001 · Movie
The Coen Brothers
2000 · Movie
Lost Souls
2000 · Movie
O Brother, Where Art Thou?
2000 · Movie
Jesus' Son
2000 · Movie
Things You Can Tell Just by Looking at Her
2000 · Movie
Harlan County War
2000 · Movie
Timecode
2000 · Movie
Woman Wanted
1999 · Movie
Living Out Loud
1998 · Movie
A Life Less Ordinary
1997 · Movie
The View
1997 · Series
Crash
1996 · Movie
The Rosie O'Donnell Show
1996 · Series
Home for the Holidays
1995 · Movie
Copycat
1995 · Movie
Eco-Challenge
1995 · Series
Inside the Actors Studio
1994 · Series
Intimate Portrait
1993 · Series
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
1993 · Series
The Firm
1993 · Movie
The Piano
1993 · Movie
The Positively True Adventures of the Alleged Texas Cheerleader-Murdering Mom
1993 · Movie
Inside 'The Piano'
1993 · Movie
Crazy in Love
1992 · Movie
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
1992 · Series
Once Around
1991 · Movie
Always
1989 · Movie
Animal Behavior
1989 · Movie
Rabbit Ears - The Three Billy Goats Gruff/The Three Little Pigs
1989 · Movie
Roe vs. Wade
1989 · Movie
Miss Firecracker
1989 · Movie
American Experience
1988 · Series
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
1988 · Series
Broadcast News
1987 · Movie
End of the Line
1987 · Movie
A Gathering of Old Men
1987 · Movie
Raising Arizona
1987 · Movie
Blood Simple
1985 · Movie
With Intent to Kill
1984 · Movie
Swing Shift
1984 · Movie
An Uncommon Love
1983 · Movie
Svengali
1983 · Movie
Entertainment Tonight
1981 · Series
The Burning
1981 · Movie
The Oscars
1953 · Series