Age: 64
Birthday: 20th March
Holly Hunter is an American actress. 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), Miss Firecracker (1989), O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000), The Incredibles (2004), Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice (2016), The Big Sick (2017), and Incredibles 2 (2018). the latter of which earned her a Screen Actors Guild Award nomination for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Supporting Role.
ACADEMY AWARD NOMINATIONS: 4 WINS: 1
2004 - Best Supporting Actress - THIRTEEN
1994 - WINNER: Best Leading Actress - THE PIANO
1994 - Best Supporting Actress - THE FIRM
1988 - Best Leading Actress - BROADCAST NEWS
BAFTA AWARD NOMINATIONS: 3 WINS: 1
2004 - Best Supporting Actress - THIRTEEN
1994 - WINNER: Best Leading Actress - THE PIANO
1994 - Best Supporting Actress - THE FIRM
GOLDEN GLOBE AWARD NOMINATIONS: 7 WINS: 1
2008 - Best TV Actress - SAVING GRACE
2004 - Best Supporting Actress - THIRTEEN
2001 - Best TV Actress - HARLAN COUNTRY WAR
1994 - WINNER: Best Leading Actress - THE PIANO
1994 - Best TV Actress - THE POSITIVELY TRUE ADVENTURES OF THE ALLEGED TEXAS CHEERLEADER-MURDERING MOM
1990 - Best TV Actress - ROE vs. WADE
1988 - Best Leading Actress - BROADCAST NEWS
How do you rate Holly Hunter's films?
WATCH HOLLY HUNTER THIS WEEK
ON TV:
FILM: Raising Arizona (1987)
Wednesday 31st August, Great! Movies, 7:10pm
ALSO ON DISNEY+
Hunter stars in this comedy with Nicolas Cage. Inveterate crook Hi McDonnough turns his back on a life of crime to marry Edwina, a police officer he meets on his regular journeys to jail. Their happiness is marred only by their inability to have children, so when they hear that quintuplets have been born nearby, they set out to steal one.
ON NETFLIX...
FILM: O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000)
Hunter has a supporting role in this Coen brothers comedy.
ON AMAZON PRIME...
Peep and the Big Wide World
Hunter provides guest vocals in this kids TV cartoon.
ON DISNEY+
FILMS: The Incredibles (2004) / Incredibles 2 (2018)
The Incredibles
Animated comedy adventure from Monsters, Inc and Toy Story studio Pixar, featuring the voices of Hunter, Craig T Nelson, and Samuel L Jackson. A family of superheroes struggles to fit in to normal suburban life after its amazing powers are outlawed. But the temptation to fight crime proves too strong for Mr Incredible.
Incredibles 2
The Incredibles family takes on a new mission which involves a change in family roles: Bob Parr (Mr. Incredible) must manage the house while his wife Helen (Elastigirl) goes out to save the world.
Pixar Popcorn
Holly Hunter returns as Mrs. Incredible in an episode of this Pixar short spin-offs.
What's your favourite Holly Hunter performance?
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