Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Birthdate
1958-03-20 (Age: 68)
Place of Birth
Conyers, Georgia, USA
Holly Hunter
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.
Filmography (67)
Incredibles 3
2028
Incredicoaster | Disneyland Resort
2025
Hurricanna
2025
The Electric State
2025
My Darling Vivian
2020
Bergman: A Year in a Life
2018
Incredibles 2
2018
Spielberg
2017
The Big Sick
2017
Song to Song
2017
Breakable You
2017
Strange Weather
2016
Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice
2016
Manglehorn
2015
