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Holly Hunter (born March 20, 1958) is an American actress. Hunter won the Academy Award for Best Actress for her performance as Ada McGrath in the 1993 drama film The Piano . She earned three additional Academy Award nominations for Broadcast News (1987), The Firm (1993), and Thirteen (2003).
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- January 1, 1
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- Conyers, Georgia, USA
Holly Hunter. Actress: Broadcast News. Holly Hunter was born in Conyers, Georgia, to Opal Marguerite (Catledge), a homemaker, and Charles Edwin Hunter, a part-time sporting goods company representative and farmer with a 250 acre farm. She is the youngest of seven children. Her parents encouraged her talent at an early age, and her first acting part was as Helen Keller in a fifth-grade play. In ...
- March 20, 1958
- BROADCAST NEWS (1987) Director and writer: James L. Brooks. Starring William Hurt, Albert Brooks, Jack Nicholson. James L. Brooks had planned to cast his “Terms of Endearment” star Debra Winger in the lead role of this film set in the world of television news (a topic he was well acquainted with from his producing of “The Mary Tyler Moore Show”) but her pregnancy forced her to drop out at the last minute.
- THE PIANO (1993) Director and writer: Jane Campion. Starring Harvey Keitel, Anna Paquin, Sam Neill. Hunter won just about every award they give including a Best Actress Oscar for this film about a woman who is placed in an arranged marriage to a wealthy New Zealand plantation owner but begins to fall in love with a field hand on the estate.
- RAISING ARIZONA (1987) Director: Joel Coen. Writers: Joel and Ethan Coen. Starring Nicolas Cage, John Goodman, Frances McDormand. The year 1987 was a landmark year for Hunter.
- THIRTEEN (2003) Director: Catherine Hardwicke. Writers: Catherine Hardwicke, Nikki Reed. Starring Evan Rachel Wood, Nikki Reed. Hunter did receive her fourth Oscar nomination (as Best Supporting Actress) as a mother trying to deal with her rebellious daughter who starts to dabble in sex, drugs and crime after she becomes friends with the wrong crowd.
- Holly Hunter. Her voice — that dazzling, invigorating Georgia twang — could have limited Holly Hunter's 37-year career, but she tricked that assumed weakness into an invincible strength.
- With Frances McDormand, friends since 1981. Hunter’s friendship with Frances McDormand altered the course of both women’s lives. “I met Fran on a trip to Yale in 1981, and it was an immediate hookup,” Hunter says.
- Raising Arizona (1987) Hunter had appeared in just a few TV movies when the Coens cast her in Raising Arizona. The baby-crazy police officer named Ed was a role they’d written for her.
- Broadcast News (1987) Her role as the terrier-like television news producer Jane Craig scored Hunter her first Oscar nomination and rocketed her to Hollywood’s A list.
Jun 13, 2024 · Recent News. Holly Hunter (born March 20, 1958, Conyers, Georgia, U.S.) is an American actress with a talent for portraying intense, driven, and often offbeat characters in both comedies and dramas. Hunter had her first acting experience while she was still in elementary school. She joined her high school’s drama club and performed in summer ...
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