Holly Hunter
Acting
🎂 1958-03-20
Holly Patricia Hunter 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.
Cast credits(98)
Self
2014
Self - Guest
2009
Senator Finch
2016
Rhea Jarrell
2018
Helen Parr / Elastigirl (voice)
2004
Mary Lincoln (voice)
1988
Helen Parr / Elastigirl (voice)
2018
Self
2014
Self
1997
2017
Self
2003
1988
1992
Madeline Vance
2025
Self - Guest
1993
Self
2014
Self
2009
Self
1993
Self
1953
Grace Hanadarko
2007
Tammy Hemphill
1993
Self - Guest
2009
Ed
1987
Penny
2000
Arpi
2021
Melanie
2003
Helen Remington
2013
M.J. Monahan
1995
Helen Remington
1996
Self (archive footage)
2014
Marjune (voice)
2019
Self
1981
1995
Ada McGrath
1993
GJ
2013
Helen Parr (voice)
2024
Jeannie Sherman
1984
Helene Trend (voice) (uncredited)
1984
(voice)
2023
Mona Camp
2002
Beth Gardner
2017
Dorinda Durston
1989
Self - Guest
1996
Self
2017
Miranda
2017
Darcy Baylor
2016
Barb
2004
Helen Parr (voice)
2021
Nahla Ake
Sophie
1981
Margaret Barnell
2005
O'Reilly
1997
Adele Easley
2003
Sonia
2005
Candy Marshall
1987
Self / Mona Camp
2003
Self
2001
(archive footage)
2012
Self
2018
Audrey Bayer-Boatwright
2018
Sally Yates
2020
Emma Parker
2013
Claudia Larson
1995
Ellen Russell / Jane Doe
1989
Georgie Symonds
1992
Rebecca Waynon (segment "Fantasies About Rebecca")
2000
Evelyn Riske
2012
Coral Grable
1989
Jane Craig
1987
Dawn
2015
Self (archive footage)
2020
Karen
1983
Self (uncredited)
2001
Judith Moore
1998
Jackie
2012
Mira
2000
Billie Jean King
2001
Renata Bella
1991
Cafe waitress
2006
Carnelle Scott
1989
Leslie
1983
2011
Eleanor Weller
2017
Renee Fishbine
2000
Charlotte
1987
Self
2013
Wanda Holloway
1993
Emma Riley
1999
Self
1994
Wynn Nolen
1984
Ruby Kincaid
2000
Self
2002
Melanie Mannerheim
2013
Self
1993
Self
2000
herself
2013
Narrator (voice)
1989
