Helen Hunt the biography

Helen Hunt, Actress, - Biography

Actress

Birth name Helen Elizabeth Hunt
Born June 15, 1963 (1963-06-15) (age 43)
Culver City, California, United States

Helen Elizabeth Hunt is an Emmy, Golden Globe & Academy Award-winning American actress, perhaps most widely known for her role in the television sitcom Mad About You.

Hunt began her career in the 1970s as a child actress. Her early roles included an appearance as Murray Slaughter's daughter on The Mary Tyler Moore Show, & a regular role in the television series The Swiss Family Robinson. She appeared as a marijuana-smoking classmate on an episode of The Facts of Life. She also appeared as a young woman who, while on PCP, jumps out of a second-story window in a 1982 after school special called Desperate Lives. In the mid-1980s, she had a recurring role on St. Elsewhere as Clancy Williams, girlfriend of Dr. Jack "Boomer" Morrison.

In the 1990s, after the lead female role in the short-lived My Life & Times, Hunt became well-known to television audiences in Mad About You, winning Emmy Awards for her performance in 1996, 1997, 1998, & 1999. Over 25 million people tuned in to see her performance in an episode titled, "The Birth". By the end of the show in 1999, Hunt was the (then) highest-paid TV actress in history, earning $1 million per episode.

Hunt has also had a successful film career, with roles in movies such as Cast Away & the 1996 blockbuster Twister. After winning an Academy Award for Best Actress in 1998 for her performance in As Good as It Gets, she took time off from movie work to play Viola in Shakespeare's Twelfth Night at the Lincoln Center in New York City.

In 2000, Hunt returned to the screen in four films: Dr. T & the Women with Richard Gere, Pay It Forward with Kevin Spacey & Haley Joel Osment, What Women Want with Mel Gibson, & Cast Away with Tom Hanks. In 2003, she returned to Broadway in Yasmina Reza's Life x 3.

In 2006, Hunt appeared in a small role in the film Bobby. Her directorial debut came with the film Then She Found Me, a film in which she also starred.

She currently owns a production company with Connie Tavel, Hunt/Tavel Productions under Sony Pictures Entertainment.

Awards
Hunt has been recognized extensively in her career. In 1998 she became one of only two actresses to win a Golden Globe Award, an Academy Award & an Emmy Award in the same year. She is the only actress to win four consecutive Emmys & to win four Blockbuster Entertainment Awards.

Academy Award

1998 Best Actress in As Good as It Gets
Emmy Award

1996 Outstanding Lead Actress in Mad About You
1997 Outstanding Lead Actress in Mad About You
1998 Outstanding Lead Actress in Mad About You
1999 Outstanding Lead Actress in Mad About You
Golden Globe Award

1994 Best Performance by an Actress in Mad About You
1995 Best Performance by an Actress in Mad About You
1997 Best Performance by an Actress in Mad About You
1998 Best Performance by an Actress in As Good as It Gets
Screen Actors Guild Award

1995 Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in Mad About You
1998 Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in As Good as It Gets

Television series
Hunt was a cast member of the following series:

Amy Prentiss (1974)
The Swiss Family Robinson (1975)
It Takes Two (1982)
The Fitzpatricks
My Life & Times (1991)
Mad About You (1992)
Empire Falls (2005)

Movies
Hunt has had roles in the following feature & made-for-television films:

Pioneer Woman (Made for TV) (1973)
Death Scream (Made for TV) (1975)
All Together Now (Made for TV) (1975)
Having Babies (Made for TV) (1976)
The Spell (Made for TV) (1977)
Rollercoaster (1977)
Transplant (Made for TV) (1979)
Child Bride of Short Creek (Made for TV) (1981)
I Think I'm Having a Baby (Made for TV) (1981)
The Best Little Girl in the World (Made for TV) (1981)
Angel Dusted (Made for TV) (1981)
The Miracle of Kathy Miller (Made for TV) (1981)
Desperate Lives (Made for TV) (1982)
Bill: On His Own (Made for TV) (1983)
Quarterback Princess (Made for TV) (1983)
Choices of the Heart (Made for TV) (1983)
Sweet Revenge (Made for TV) (1984)
Trancers (1985)
Waiting to Act (1985)
Girls Just Want to Have Fun (1985)
The Nativity (1986)
Peggy Sue Got Married (1986)
Project X (1987)
Shooter (Made for TV) (1988)
Miles from Home (1988)
Stealing Home (1988)
The Frog Prince (1988)
Incident at Dark River (Made for TV) (1989)
Next of Kin (1989)
Murder in New Hampshire: The Pamela Wojas Smart Story (Made for TV) (1991)
Trancers II (1991)
Into the Badlands (Made for TV) (1991)
The Waterdance (1992)
Only You (1992)
Mr. Saturday Night (1992)
Bob Roberts (1992)
Trancers III (1992)
Sexual Healing (1993)
In the Company of Darkness (Made for TV) (1993)
Kiss of Death (1995)
Twister (1996)
As Good as It Gets (1997) – Academy Award for Best Actress
Twister: Ride it Out (1998)
Twelfth Night (Made for TV) (1998)
Dr. T & the Women (2000)
What Women Want (2000)
Pay It Forward (2000)
Cast Away (2000)
Timepiece (2001)
The Curse of the Jade Scorpion (2001)
A Good Woman (2005)
Bobby (2006)
Then She Found Me (2007)

Personal life
Hunt was born in Culver City, California to photographer Jane Elizabeth Novis & Gordon Hunt, a film director & acting coach. Her maternal grandmother, Dorothy Fries (born Dorothy Anderson) was a voice coach.

Hunt was married to actor Hank Azaria from 1999 until 2000. She has been in a relationship with Matthew Carnahan since 2001 & they have a daughter, Makena'lei Gordon Carnahan, born in 2004.

Trivia

Aside from being the highest paid actress on TV, she also commanded the highest ever fee for a screen actress.
Murphy Brown's Candice Bergen praised Hunt as her "hero" in her Emmy acceptance speech.
She is unrelated to actress Bonnie Hunt, who was originally offered the Mad About You female lead.
Steven Spielberg wrote Hunt a fan letter after seeing her play Tami Maida in Quarterback Princess & Hunt wrote Spielberg a fan letter too after seeing Saving Private Ryan
Her daughter's name, Makena'lei, comes from the name of a town in Maui, Hawaii.

This site was written in May 2007

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