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Holly Hunter

Born 1958-03-20
📍 Conyers, Georgia, USA

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.

Filmography 97

Incredibles 3
as Helen Parr / Elastigirl (voice)
2028
Star Trek: Starfleet Academy
as Nahla Ake
2026
Incredicoaster | Disneyland Resort
as Elastigirl (voice)
2025
Hurricanna
2025
The Electric State
as Madeline Vance
2025
LEGO Pixar: BrickToons
as Helen Parr (voice)
2024
Mulligan
as (voice)
2023
Pixar Popcorn
as Helen Parr (voice)
2021
Mr. Mayor
as Arpi
2021
The Comey Rule
as Sally Yates
2020
My Darling Vivian
as Self (archive footage)
2020
Bless the Harts
as Marjune (voice)
2019
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
2018
Spielberg
as Self
2017
Big Mouth
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 Finch
2016
Manglehorn
as Dawn
2015
Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
as Self
2014
Late Night with Seth Meyers
as Self - Guest
2014
Off Camera with Sam Jones
as Self
2014
Bonnie & Clyde
as Emma Parker
2013
Paradise
as Melanie Mannerheim
2013
Trespassing Bergman
as Self
2013
The Frame
as Helen Remington
2013
Top of the Lake
as GJ
2013
Won't Back Down
as Evelyn Riske
2012
Jackie
as Jackie
2012
Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen
as (archive footage)
2012
Portraits in Dramatic Time
2011
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
as Self - Guest
2009
Late Night with Jimmy Fallon
as Self - Guest
2009
Skavlan
as Self - Guest
2009
Saving Grace
as Grace Hanadarko
2007
The Big White
as Margaret Barnell
2005
Nine Lives
as Sonia
2005
The Incredibles
as Helen Parr / Elastigirl (voice)
2004
Little Black Book
as Barb
2004
Peep and the Big Wide World
as Robin (voice)
2004
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
as Self - Guest
2003
Thirteen
as Melanie
2003
Levity
as Adele Easley
2003
Moonlight Mile: A Journey to Screen
as Self / Mona Camp
2003
Moonlight Mile
as Mona Camp
2002
Searching for Debra Winger
as Self
2002
Festival in Cannes
as Self (uncredited)
2001
Down from the Mountain
as Self
2001
When Billie Beat Bobby
as Billie Jean King
2001
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
2000
Woman Wanted
as Emma Riley
1999
Living Out Loud
as Judith Moore
1998
A Life Less Ordinary
as O'Reilly
1997
The View
as Self - Guest
1997
Crash
as Helen Remington
1996
The Rosie O'Donnell Show
as Self - Guest
1996
Home for the Holidays
as Claudia Larson
1995
Copycat
as M.J. Monahan
1995
Eco-Challenge
1995
Inside the Actors Studio
as Self
1994
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
1993
Inside 'The Piano'
as Self
1993
Crazy in Love
as Georgie Symonds
1992
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
as Self - Guest
1992
Once Around
as Renata Bella
1991
Always
as Dorinda Durston
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
1989
American Experience
as Mary Lincoln (voice)
1988
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
1988
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
1987
Blood Simple
as Helene Trend (voice) (uncredited)
1985
With Intent to Kill
as Wynn Nolen
1984
Swing Shift
as Jeannie Sherman
1984
Svengali
as Leslie
1983
Entertainment Tonight
as Self
1981
The Burning
as Sophie
1981
The Oscars
as Self
1953