Holly Hunter

Personal Info

Birthday

March 20, 1958

(67 years old)

Place of Birth

Conyers, Georgia, USA

Also Known As

홀리 헌터

Holly Patricia Hunter

هالی هانتر

Holly Hunter

Biography

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).

Known For

Succession

Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice

The Incredibles

Incredibles 2

American Experience

Mulligan

The Electric State

Bless the Harts

Filmography

2025
The Electric State
as Madeline Vance
2020
My Darling Vivian
as Self (archive footage)
2018
Bergman: A Year in a Life
as Self
Incredibles 2
as Helen Parr / Elastigirl (voice)
2017
Spielberg
as Self
The Big Sick
as Beth Gardner
Song to Song
as Miranda
Breakable You
as Eleanor Weller
2016
Strange Weather
as Darcy Baylor
Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice
as Senator Finch
2015
Manglehorn
as Dawn
2014
And the Oscar Goes To...
as Self (archive footage)
2013
Paradise
as Melanie Mannerheim
From the Bottom of the Lake
as herself
Trespassing Bergman
as Self
2012
Won't Back Down
as Evelyn Riske
Jackie
as Jackie
Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen
as (archive footage)
2006
Sangre
as Cafe waitress
2005
The Big White
as Margaret Barnell
Nine Lives
as Sonia
2004
The Incredibles
as Helen Parr / Elastigirl (voice)
Little Black Book
as Barb
2003
Thirteen
as Melanie
Levity
as Adele Easley
Moonlight Mile: A Journey to Screen
as Self / Mona Camp
2002
Moonlight Mile
as Mona Camp
Searching for Debra Winger
as Self
2001
Festival in Cannes
as Self (uncredited)
Down from the Mountain
as Self
When Billie Beat Bobby
as Billie Jean King
2000
The Coen Brothers
as Self
O Brother, Where Art Thou?
as Penny
Jesus' Son
as Mira
Things You Can Tell Just by Looking at Her
as Rebecca Waynon (segment "Fantasies About Rebecca")
Harlan County War
as Ruby Kincaid
Timecode
as Renee Fishbine
1999
Woman Wanted
as Emma Riley
1998
Living Out Loud
as Judith Moore
1997
A Life Less Ordinary
as O'Reilly
1996
Crash
as Helen Remington
1995
Home for the Holidays
as Claudia Larson
Copycat
as M.J. Monahan
1993
The Firm
as Tammy Hemphill
The Piano
as Ada McGrath
The Positively True Adventures of the Alleged Texas Cheerleader-Murdering Mom
as Wanda Holloway
Inside 'The Piano'
as Self
1992
Crazy in Love
as Georgie Symonds
1991
Once Around
as Renata Bella
1989
Always
as Dorinda Durston
Animal Behavior
as Coral Grable
Rabbit Ears - The Three Billy Goats Gruff/The Three Little Pigs
as Narrator (voice)
Roe vs. Wade
as Ellen Russell / Jane Doe
Miss Firecracker
as Carnelle Scott
1987
Broadcast News
as Jane Craig
End of the Line
as Charlotte
A Gathering of Old Men
as Candy Marshall
Raising Arizona
as Ed
1984
With Intent to Kill
as Wynn Nolen
Swing Shift
as Jeannie Sherman
Blood Simple
as Helene Trend (voice) (uncredited)
1983
An Uncommon Love
as Karen
Svengali
as Leslie
1981
The Burning
as Sophie