Holly Hunter

Age: 51
Height: 5' 2"

Birth Place: Conyers, Georgia, USA
Born: Mar. 20th, 1958

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Holly Hunter's Main TV Roles

Show	Character(s)
Saving Grace	Grace Hanad…

NOTE: Complete List of Works can be found at IMDB

BIOGRAPHY:

Holly Hunter was born in Conyers, Georgia, the youngest of seven children whose father was a part-time sporting goods company representative and part-time farmer with a 250 acre farm. Her parents encouraged in her talent at an early age, and her first acting part was as Helen Keller in a fifth-grade play. In 1976 she went to Pittsburgh to pursue a degree in drama from Carnegie Mellon University. After graduating in 1980, she went to New York City, where she met playwright Beth Henley in a stalled elevator. Hunter went on to get roles in a number of Henley's southern gothic plays, including Crimes of the Heart and The Miss Firecracker Contest. In 1982 the actress went to Los Angeles. She landed her first starring role in the movies in the Coen brothers' Raising Arizona (1987), a part that is said to have been written with her in mind. She gained stardom in 1987 when she played the driven TV news producer Jane Craig in James L. Brooks' Broadcast News (1987). In 1993 she earned an Academy Award and worldwide acclaim with her performance as a mute bride to a New Zealand planter in The Piano (1993).

TRIVIA:

Started playing piano at 9.
She is one of the elite eleven actors to have been nominated for both a Supporting and Lead Acting Academy Award in the same year. The other nine are: 'Fay Bainter' (qv); 'Barry Fitzgerald (I)' (qv); 'Teresa Wright (I)' (qv); 'Jessica Lange' (qv); 'Sigourney Weaver' (qv); 'Al Pacino' (qv); 'Emma Thompson (I)' (qv); 'Julianne Moore (I)' (qv); 'Cate Blanchett' (qv) and 'Jamie Foxx' (qv). 'Emma Thompson (I)' (qv) received her double-nomination in the same year that Hunter did.
Received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame on May 30, 2008.
Moved to New York in 1980 to pursue a career in acting.
Turned down the role of God in _Dogma (1999)_ (qv).
Taught by 'Jorge Guerra (III)' (qv).
She had one line in her film debut, _The Burning (1981)_ (qv), among a few ad libs. Regarding missing canoes she says to Todd -- "What happens if we don't find them?"
In 10th grade she placed 8th nationally in a poultry-judging contest. (Interview, 11/95)