Holly Hunter

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.

Known For

Birth Location Conyers, Georgia, USA
Born 1958-03-20

Movies

My Darling Vivian as Self (archive footage)
2020
Incredibles 2 as Helen Parr / Elastigirl (voice)
2018
Spielberg as Self
2017
The Big Sick as Beth Gardner
2017
Song to Song as Miranda
2017
Breakable You as Eleanor Weller
2017
Strange Weather as Darcy Baylor
2016
Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice as Senator June Finch
2016
Manglehorn as Dawn
2015
And the Oscar Goes To... as Self (archive footage)
2014
Paradise as Melanie Mannerheim
2013
2013
2013
Won't Back Down as Evelyn Riske
2012
Bergmans video as Self
2012
Jackie as Jackie
2012
Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen as (archive footage)
2012
Sangre as Cafe waitress
2006
The Big White as Margaret Barnell
2005
Nine Lives as Sonia
2005
The Incredibles as Helen Parr / Elastigirl (voice)
2004
2004
Thirteen as Melanie Freeland
2003
Levity as Adele Easley
2003
Moonlight Mile as Mona Camp
2002
Festival in Cannes as Self (uncredited)
2001
2001
When Billie Beat Bobby as Billie Jean King
2001
2000
Jesus' Son as Mira
2000
Things You Can Tell Just by Looking at Her as Rebecca Waynon (segment "Fantasies About Rebecca")
2000
Harlan County War as Ruby Kincaid
2000
Timecode as Renee Fishbine
2000
Woman Wanted as Emma Riley
1999
Living Out Loud as Judith Moore
1998
A Life Less Ordinary as O'Reilly
1997
Crash as Helen Remington
1996
Home for the Holidays as Claudia Larson
1995
Copycat as M.J. Monahan
1995
The Firm as Tammy Hemphill
1993
The Piano as Ada McGrath
1993
Crazy in Love as Georgie Symonds
1992
Once Around as Renata Bella
1991
Always as Dorinda Durston
1989
Animal Behavior as Coral Grable
1989
Roe vs. Wade as Ellen Russell / Jane Doe
1989
Miss Firecracker as Carnelle Scott
1989
Broadcast News as Jane Craig
1987
End of the Line as Charlotte
1987
A Gathering of Old Men as Candy Marshall
1987
1987
Blood Simple as Helene Trend (voice) (uncredited)
1985
With Intent to Kill as Wynn Nolen
1984
Swing Shift as Jeannie Sherman
1984
An Uncommon Love as Karen
1983
Svengali as Leslie
1983
The Burning as Sophie
1981

Movies

Thirteen Executive Producer
2003
When Billie Beat Bobby Co-Executive Producer
2001
Lost Souls Thanks
2000