
Holly Hunter
3 FOLLOWERS • 34 CREDITS • MAR 20, 1958 • 67
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

Late Night with Seth Meyers

The Tonight Show with Jay Leno

Late Night with Conan O'Brien

The Oscars

Entertainment Tonight

LIVE with Kelly and Mark

Late Night with Jimmy Fallon

Succession

Mulligan

LEGO Pixar: BrickToons

Pixar Popcorn

The Electric State

Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice

The Firm

Song to Song

Moonlight Mile: A Journey to Screen

Top of the Lake

The Comey Rule

The Big Sick

Thirteen

A Gathering of Old Men

Crash

The Incredibles

Here and Now

Little Black Book

Incredibles 2

Mr. Mayor

Star Trek: Starfleet Academy

Saving Grace

The Piano

Woman Wanted

Home for the Holidays

Harlan County War
Production Credits
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