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Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Birthday
March 20, 1958
Place of Birth
Conyers, Georgia, USA
Also Known As
- 홀리 헌터
- Holly Patricia Hunter
- هالی هانتر
Holly Hunter
2.5 Popularity
Biography
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
6.5
Madeline Vance
The Electric State
2025
6.0
Helen Parr (voice)
LEGO Pixar: BrickToons
2024
0.0
Helen Parr (voice)
Pizza Night
2024
7.2
Ada McGrath (archive footage) (uncredited)
Lynch/Oz
2023
5.7
(voice)
Mulligan
2023
7.2
Helen Parr (voice)
Pixar Popcorn
2021
0.0
Helen Parr (Voice)
Chore Day - The Incredibles Way
2021
6.6
Arpi
Mr. Mayor
2021
6.9
Sally Yates
The Comey Rule
2020
7.5
Self (archive footage)
My Darling Vivian
2020
Credits
The Electric State
as Madeline Vance
2025
6.5
LEGO Pixar: BrickToons
as Helen Parr (voice)
2024
6.0
Pizza Night
as Helen Parr (voice)
2024
0.0
Lynch/Oz
as Ada McGrath (archive footage) (uncredited)
2023
7.2
Mulligan
as (voice)
2023
5.7
Pixar Popcorn
as Helen Parr (voice)
2021
7.2
Chore Day - The Incredibles Way
as Helen Parr (Voice)
2021
0.0
Mr. Mayor
as Arpi
2021
6.6
The Comey Rule
as Sally Yates
2020
6.9
My Darling Vivian
as Self (archive footage)
2020
7.5
Bless the Harts
as Marjune (voice)
2019
6.7
Bergman: A Year in a Life
as Self
2018
7.4
Incredibles 2
as Helen Parr / Elastigirl (voice)
2018
7.5
Succession
as Rhea Jarrell
2018
8.3
Here and Now
as Audrey Bayer-Boatwright
2018
6.8
Spielberg
as Self
2017
7.6
Big Mouth
2017
7.7
The Big Sick
as Beth Gardner
2017
7.3
Song to Song
as Miranda
2017
5.5
Breakable You
as Eleanor Weller
2017
5.1
Strange Weather
as Darcy Baylor
2016
5.9
Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice
as Senator Finch
2016
6.0
Manglehorn
as Dawn
2015
5.4
Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
as Self
2014
4.4
Late Night with Seth Meyers
as Self
2014
5.3
Off Camera with Sam Jones
as Self
2014
4.0
And the Oscar Goes To...
as Self (archive footage)
2014
7.0
Bonnie & Clyde
as Emma Parker
2013
7.3
Paradise
as Melanie Mannerheim
2013
5.0
🎬
From the Bottom of the Lake
as herself
2013
0.0
Trespassing Bergman
as Self
2013
6.6
The Frame
as Helen Remington
2013
10.0
Top of the Lake
as GJ
2013
7.1
Won't Back Down
as Evelyn Riske
2012
6.1
Jackie
as Jackie
2012
6.7
Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen
as (archive footage)
2012
7.5
Portraits in Dramatic Time
2011
8.0
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
as Self - Guest
2009
5.1
Late Night with Jimmy Fallon
as Self
2009
6.0
Skavlan
as Self - Guest
2009
5.0
Saving Grace
as Grace Hanadarko
2007
7.6
🎬
Sangre
as Cafe waitress
2006
0.0
The Big White
as Margaret Barnell
2005
6.2
Nine Lives
as Sonia
2005
6.0
The Incredibles
as Helen Parr / Elastigirl (voice)
2004
7.7
Little Black Book
as Barb
2004
5.3
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
as Self
2003
5.7
Thirteen
as Melanie
2003
6.7
Levity
as Adele Easley
2003
6.2
Moonlight Mile: A Journey to Screen
as Self / Mona Camp
2003
8.8
Moonlight Mile
as Mona Camp
2002
6.3
Searching for Debra Winger
as Self
2002
6.3
Festival in Cannes
as Self (uncredited)
2001
5.5
Down from the Mountain
as Self
2001
7.6
When Billie Beat Bobby
as Billie Jean King
2001
5.5
🎬
The Coen Brothers
as Self
2000
7.5
O Brother, Where Art Thou?
as Penny
2000
7.3
Jesus' Son
as Mira
2000
6.3
Things You Can Tell Just by Looking at Her
as Rebecca Waynon (segment "Fantasies About Rebecca")
2000
5.8
Harlan County War
as Ruby Kincaid
2000
7.1
Timecode
as Renee Fishbine
2000
5.6
Woman Wanted
as Emma Riley
1999
5.6
Living Out Loud
as Judith Moore
1998
5.9
A Life Less Ordinary
as O'Reilly
1997
6.1
The View
as Self
1997
4.5
Crash
as Helen Remington
1996
6.4
The Rosie O'Donnell Show
as Self - Guest
1996
3.5
Home for the Holidays
as Claudia Larson
1995
6.3
Copycat
as M.J. Monahan
1995
6.5
Eco-Challenge
1995
8.0
Inside the Actors Studio
as Self
1994
7.5
Intimate Portrait
as Self
1993
4.5
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
as Self - Guest
1993
7.2
The Firm
as Tammy Hemphill
1993
6.7
The Piano
as Ada McGrath
1993
7.4
The Positively True Adventures of the Alleged Texas Cheerleader-Murdering Mom
as Wanda Holloway
1993
6.2
Inside 'The Piano'
as Self
1993
0.0
Crazy in Love
as Georgie Symonds
1992
4.4
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
1992
5.4
Once Around
as Renata Bella
1991
6.1
Always
as Dorinda Durston
1989
6.3
Animal Behavior
as Coral Grable
1989
2.0
Rabbit Ears - The Three Billy Goats Gruff/The Three Little Pigs
as Narrator (voice)
1989
0.0
Roe vs. Wade
as Ellen Russell / Jane Doe
1989
6.3
Miss Firecracker
as Carnelle Scott
1989
5.6
American Experience
as Mary Lincoln (voice)
1988
7.4
American Experience
as Mary Todd (voice)
1988
7.4
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
1988
5.5
Broadcast News
as Jane Craig
1987
6.7
End of the Line
as Charlotte
1987
5.2
A Gathering of Old Men
as Candy Marshall
1987
6.0
Raising Arizona
as Ed
1987
7.1
With Intent to Kill
as Wynn Nolen
1984
3.0
Swing Shift
as Jeannie Sherman
1984
5.7
Blood Simple
as Helene Trend (voice) (uncredited)
1984
7.2
🎬
An Uncommon Love
as Karen
1983
1.5
Svengali
as Leslie
1983
5.2
Entertainment Tonight
as Self
1981
4.0
The Burning
as Sophie
1981
6.2
The Oscars
as Self
1953
7.0
Star Trek: Starfleet Academy
N/A
0.0
Hurricanna
N/A
0.0
The Making of Thirteen
as Self
N/A
0.0