Holly Hunter, Actress, - Biography,

Actress

A Pic of her
Born March 20, 1958 in Conyers, Georgia
Height: 5 feet 2 inches (1.57 metres)

Holly Hunter is an Academy Award-winning American actress.


Hunter's first starring role in films came in 1987's Raising Arizona. That year, she also starred in Broadcast News, for which she earned an Oscar nomination for the Best Actress. In 1993, she won the Best Actress Oscar for The Piano and showcased her skill with the piano by playing all the elaborate pieces on the score herself. That year, Hunter was also nominated for Best Supporting Actress for The Firm. In 2004, she earned another Best Supporting Actress nomination for thirteen and voiced a star role (Helen Parr/Elastigirl) in the animated film The Incredibles. Hunter has also appeared in several television films and has earned two Emmys. She is currently set to star in a crime series on TNT portraying an Oklahoma City Police Department detective.


Hunter earned a degree in drama from Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, after which she moved to New York City. When she first moved to Los Angeles she shared a house with a group of people which included actress Frances McDormand and director Sam Raimi as well as future collaborators Joel and Ethan Coen. For many years she was in a relationship with actor Arliss Howard. She was married to cinematographer Janusz Kaminski from May 20, 1995 until their divorce on December 21, 2001. Since 2001, she has been in a relationship with American actor Gordon MacDonald (who is from New York and not Britain, contrary to what has been reported) with whom she co-starred in Marina Carr's By the Bog of Cats in a 2001 run at the San Jose Repertory Theater, and later in a 2004 West End production of the same play. In January 2006, Hunter's publicist announced that the couple had welcomed twins; Entertainment Weekly later reported that the twins were boys.

Holly's cousin is Tim Salmon, career right fielder and designated hitter (now retired) of the Los Angeles Angels major league baseball team.


Selected filmography
The Burning (1981)
Broadcast News (1987)
Raising Arizona (1987)
Always (1989)
Miss Firecracker (1989)
The Firm (1993)
The Piano (1993)
Home for the Holidays (1995)
Copycat (1995)
Crash (1996)
A Life Less Ordinary (1997)
Living Out Loud (1998)
Jesus' Son (1999)
O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000)
Timecode (2000)
Things You Can Tell Just by Looking at Her (2000)
Woman Wanted (2000)
Moonlight Mile (2002)
thirteen (2003)
Levity (2003)
The Incredibles (2004)
Little Black Book (2004)
The Big White (2005)
Nine Lives (2005)
Frost Flowers (pre-production)

Television
Svengali (1983)
A Gathering of Old Men (1987)
Roe vs. Wade (1989)
Crazy in Love (1992)
The Positively True Adventures of the Alleged Texas Cheerleader-Murdering Mom (1993)
Harlan County War (2000)
When Billie Beat Bobby (2001)
Saving Grace (2007)

Academy Awards

Best Actress — The Piano (1993)


Nominated:

Best Actress — Broadcast News (1987)
Best Supporting Actress — The Firm (1993)
Best Supporting Actress — thirteen (2003)

Emmy Awards
Won:

Outstanding Lead Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie — Roe vs. Wade (1989)
Outstanding Lead Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie — The Positively True Adventures of the Alleged Texas Cheerleader-Murdering Mom (1993)
Nominated:

Outstanding Lead Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie — Harlan County War (2000)
Outstanding Lead Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie — When Billie Beat Bobby (2001)
Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie — Things You Can Tell Just by Looking at Her (2001)

Golden Globes
Won:

Best Actress in a Motion Picture Drama — The Piano (1993)
Nominated:

Best Actress in a Motion Picture Musical or Comedy — Broadcast News (1987)
Best Actress in a Mini-Series or TV Movie — Roe vs. Wade (1989)
Best Actress in a Mini-Series or TV Movie — The Positively True Adventures of the Alleged Texas Cheerleader-Murdering Mom (1993)
Best Actress in a Mini-Series or TV Movie — Harlan County War (2000)
Best Supporting Actress in a Motion Picture — thirteen (2003)

Pictures of Holly Hunter , which is not spelt Hollee Hunter, Holly Hunnter, Holly Huntter, Holy Hunter, Holley Hunter,

Picture of her

Herself

A site of links on Women's volleyball http://www.lonympics.co.uk/womensvolleyball.htm

Index of celebrity women, lots of models

http://www.lonympics.co.uk/womennsupermodelsheights.htm My list of heights of very many famous supermodels

A Biography of 6 foot tall Actress Brooke Shields

A Biography of Danish Supermodel, 5 ft 10 Helena Christensen

A Biography of 6 foot 1 Supermodel Jodie Kidd

A site on 6 foot Brazilian Volleyballer Lima Priscilla

My biographies, & statisticts on many very tall women site, legs & more lenghs, & some historicly, from alphabeticly Amazon Amanda, & Amazon Astrid's legs to Zhou Rurrui's & loads of famous tall models

A Biography of 6 foot 5 Chinese Volleyball International Zhao Ruirui

A Biography of 6 foot 3 Kerri Walsh

A Biography of Venus Williams

A Biography of 6 foot 1 Miss Universe of 2003 Ameliea Vega

A Biography of the 6 foot 1 British Beach Volleyball Player Denise Johns

A page for fans of Renae Maycock, with a picture, & some facts on this 188 cm tall Australian Beach Volleyball Player

A Biography of 5 foot 11 Miss World 1999 Yukta Mookhey

A Biography of 6 foot 2 Netball International Irene Van Dyk

A Biography of the virtually Super Human Strong Woman, who could lift men with ease, Joan Rhodes,

A Biography of 192 cm tall Italian volleyball star Elisa Togut

A Biography of Michelle Wie

A Biography of 6 foot 4 Suzy Batkovic

A Biography of Hestrie Cloete

A Biography of Nina Moric

A Biography of 5 foot 11 Beach Volleyball Athelete Misty May

A biography of Blanka Vlasic

A Biography Ekaterina Gamova

A Biography of Sophie Dahl

A Biography of Tom Logan, the 6 foot 1 female Volleyball International

A Biography of Lauren Jackson

A Biography of 6 foot 3 Gabrielle Reece

A Biography of 5 foot 11 Sigourney Weaver

A Biography of 6 foot 2 Dorothy Ford

A Biography of Brigitte Nielsen

Most of the major Amazons on Earth are on this site, maybe the best amount of links about tall women ever with everyone such as from letter A Amazon Astrid, to Lauren Jackson, & 100s, of Amazons, to Letter Z Zhou Rurrui , I prefer people, to see womenn3, as it is a smaller site, http://www.lonympics.co.uk/womenn.htm

A Multiple Choice Quiz on very famous beautiful women

A Biography of Martina Hingis

A Biography of Angelina Gruen

A Biography of the 5 foot 11 Daniela Peštová

A Biography of the 5 foot 11 Karolína Kurkova

A Biography of Nell McAndrew A Biography of Karima Adebibe

A Biography of Height 1.96 Metres tall Valerie Vili also known as Valerie Adams

A Biography of Malgorzata Glinka

A Biography of Lindsay Davenport

A Biography of Sexy Six foot Six Chantelle Anderson

A Biography of 6 foot 7 Kara Braxton

A list of biographies of Very Tall Women, a internet library with over 100 life stories, of fantasticly glamarous amazons, Volleyballers, basketballers, actresses, supermodels, 6 foot blondes, 6 foot 8 sportswomen, & more,

An Index with links to almost all our sites. from history to sport

A site on the tallest women, my index page, on our tall women sites, a index page of the major tall women sites is at the bottom