Holly Hunter Biography

Birthday: 1958-03-20
Place of Birth: Conyers, Georgia USA
Height: 5' 2" (1.57 m)
Wiki Biography: Holly Hunter was born in Conyers, Georgia, the youngest of seven children whose father was a part-time sporting goods company representative and part-time farmer with a 250 acre farm. Her parents encouraged in her talent at an early age, and her first acting part was as Helen Keller in a fifth-grade play. In 1976 she went to Pittsburgh to pursue a degree in drama from Carnegie Mellon University. After graduating in 1980, she went to New York City, where she met playwright Beth Henley in a stalled elevator. Hunter went on to get roles in a number of Henley's southern gothic plays, including Crimes of the Heart and The Miss Firecracker Contest. In 1982 the actress went to Los Angeles. She landed her first starring role in the movies in the Coen brothers' Raising Arizona (1987), a part that is said to have been written with her in mind. She gained stardom in 1987 when she played the driven TV news producer Jane Craig in James L. Brooks' Broadcast News (1987). In 1993 she earned an Academy Award and worldwide acclaim with her performance as a mute bride to a New Zealand planter in The Piano (1993).
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Filmography
TV Title | Appeared As | Year | Genre |
---|---|---|---|
The Firm | Tammy Hemphill | 1993 | Thriller |
Home For The Holidays | Claudia Larson | 1995 | Comedy |
Living Out Loud | Judith Moore | 1998 | Comedy |
The Tube 2012 | GJ | 2011 | |
Top 40 of 2011 | GJ | 2011 | Family |
Miss Fishers Murder Mysteries | 2012 | Crime | |
Top of the Lake | GJ | 2013 |
Movies Title | Appeared As | Year | Genre |
---|---|---|---|
The Burning | 1981 | Horror | |
Swing Shift | 1984 | 0, Biography | |
Broadcast News | Jane Craig | 1987 | 0, 0 |
Raising Arizona | Edwina 'Ed' McDunnough | 1987 | Adventure, Comedy, Crime |
Animal Behavior | Coral Grable | 1989 | Comedy, Romance |
Miss Firecracker | Carnelle Scott | 1990 | Comedy |
Once Around | Renata Bella | 1991 | Comedy, Drama, Romance |
The Firm | Tammy Hemphill | 1993 | 0 |
The Piano | Ada McGrath | 1993 | Biography, 0 |
The Positively True Adventures of the Alleged Texas Cheerleader-Murdering Mom | Wanda Holloway | 1993 | Comedy, Thriller |
Copycat | M.J. Monahan | 1995 | Crime, Mystery, Thriller |
Home for the Holidays | Claudia Larson | 1995 | Comedy, Drama, Romance |
A Life Less Ordinary | 1997 | Biography, 0, 0 | |
Crash | Helen Remington | 1997 | Drama |
Living Out Loud | Judith Moore | 1998 | Comedy, Drama, Romance |
Woman Wanted | 2000 | ||
Timecode | 2000 | ||
O Brother, Where Art Thou? | Penny | 2000 | 0, 0, Comedy |
Things You Can Tell Just by Looking at Her | 2000 | Drama, Romance | |
When Billie Beat Bobby | Billie Jean King | 2001 | Comedy, Drama, Sport |
Moonlight Mile | Mona Camp | 2002 | Biography |
Searching for Debra Winger | 2002 | Documentary | |
Levity | Adele Easely | 2003 | |
Thirteen | Melanie Freeland | 2003 | Drama |
The Incredibles | Helen Parr | 2004 | 0, Drama |
Little Black Book | Barb | 2004 | 0, Biography |
Nine Lives | Sonia | 2005 | Drama |
The Big White | Margaret Barnell | 2005 | Comedy, Crime, Drama |
Always | Dorinda Durston | 2011 | Biography, 0 |
Portraits in Dramatic Time | Herself | 2011 | |
Won't Back Down | Evelyn Riske | 2012 | |
Jackie | Jackie | 2012 | Comedy, Drama |