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
Credits
- 2023 · Mulligan as (voice)
- 2021 · Mr. Mayor as Arpi
- 2020 · The Comey Rule as Sally Yates
- 2020 · My Darling Vivian as Self (archive footage)
- 2019 · Bless the Harts as Marjune (voice)
- 2018 · Bergman: A Year in a Life as Self
- 2018 · Incredibles 2 as Helen Parr / Elastigirl (voice)
- 2018 · Succession as Rhea Jarrell
- 2018 · Here and Now as Audrey Bayer-Boatwright
- 2017 · Spielberg as Self
- 2017 · The Big Sick as Beth Gardner
- 2017 · Song to Song as Miranda
- 2017 · Breakable You as Eleanor Weller
- 2016 · Strange Weather as Darcy Baylor
- 2016 · Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice as Senator Finch
- 2015 · Manglehorn as Dawn
- 2014 · Variety Studio: Actors on Actors as Self
- 2014 · Late Night with Seth Meyers as Self
- 2014 · Off Camera with Sam Jones as Self
- 2014 · And the Oscar Goes To... as Self (archive footage)
- 2013 · Bonnie & Clyde as Emma Parker
- 2013 · Paradise as Melanie Mannerheim
- 2013 · From the Bottom of the Lake as herself
- 2013 · Trespassing Bergman as Self
- 2013 · The Frame as Helen Remington
- 2013 · Top of the Lake as GJ
- 2012 · 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)
- 2011 · Portraits in Dramatic Time as
- 2009 · Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen as Self - Guest
- 2009 · Late Night with Jimmy Fallon as Self
- 2009 · Skavlan as Self - Guest
- 2007 · Saving Grace as Grace Hanadarko
- 2006 · Sangre as Cafe waitress
- 2005 · The Big White as Margaret Barnell
- 2005 · Nine Lives as Sonia
- 2004 · The Incredibles as Helen Parr / Elastigirl (voice)
- 2004 · Little Black Book as Barb
- 2003 · The Ellen DeGeneres Show as Self
- 2003 · The Ellen DeGeneres Show as
- 2003 · Thirteen as Melanie Freeland
- 2003 · Levity as Adele Easley
- 2003 · Moonlight Mile: A Journey to Screen as Self / Mona Camp
- 2002 · Moonlight Mile as Mona Camp
- 2002 · Searching for Debra Winger as Self
- 2001 · Festival in Cannes as Self (uncredited)
- 2001 · Down from the Mountain as Self
- 2001 · When Billie Beat Bobby as Billie Jean King
- 2000 · The Coen Brothers as Self
- 2000 · O Brother, Where Art Thou? as Penny
- 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
- 1999 · Woman Wanted as Emma Riley
- 1998 · Living Out Loud as Judith Moore
- 1997 · A Life Less Ordinary as O'Reilly
- 1997 · The View as Self
- 1996 · Crash as Helen Remington
- 1996 · The Rosie O'Donnell Show as Self - Guest
- 1995 · Home for the Holidays as Claudia Larson
- 1995 · Copycat as M.J. Monahan
- 1995 · Eco-Challenge as
- 1994 · Inside the Actors Studio as Self
- 1993 · Intimate Portrait as Self
- 1993 · Late Night with Conan O'Brien as Self - Guest
- 1993 · The Firm as Tammy Hemphill
- 1993 · The Piano as Ada McGrath
- 1993 · The Positively True Adventures of the Alleged Texas Cheerleader-Murdering Mom as Wanda Holloway
- 1992 · Crazy in Love as Georgie Symonds
- 1992 · The Tonight Show with Jay Leno as
- 1991 · Once Around as Renata Bella
- 1989 · Always as Dorinda Durston
- 1989 · Animal Behaviour as Coral Grable
- 1989 · Animal Behavior as Coral Grable
- 1989 · Rabbit Ears - The Three Billy Goats Gruff/The Three Little Pigs as Narrator (voice)
- 1989 · Roe vs. Wade as Ellen Russell / Jane Doe
- 1989 · Miss Firecracker as Carnelle Scott
- 1988 · LIVE with Kelly and Mark as
- 1987 · Broadcast News as Jane Craig
- 1987 · End of the Line as Charlotte
- 1987 · A Gathering of Old Men as Candy Marshall
- 1987 · Raising Arizona as Ed
- 1984 · With Intent to Kill as Wynn Nolen
- 1984 · Swing Shift as Jeannie Sherman
- 1984 · Blood Simple as Helene Trend (voice) (uncredited)
- 1981 · Entertainment Tonight as Self
- 1981 · The Burning as Sophie
- Future · Star Trek: Starfleet Academy as
- 1983 · An Uncommon Love as Karen
- 1983 · Svengali as Leslie
- 1953 · The Oscars as Self
- Future · Hurricanna as