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 televisio...
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.
Movies (Cast)
The Incredibles
Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice
Incredibles 2
Broadcast News
The Burning
The Piano
Swing Shift
The Electric State
Copycat
Paradise
Levity
Once Around
O Brother, Where Art Thou?
Crash
Strange Weather
Blood Simple
Always
Raising Arizona
Moonlight Mile
Nine Lives
Thirteen
Jackie
Animal Behavior
The Firm
Breakable You
Jesus' Son
A Life Less Ordinary
Svengali
Woman Wanted
Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen
The Big White
Little Black Book
Home for the Holidays
When Billie Beat Bobby
A Gathering of Old Men
The Big Sick
Things You Can Tell Just by Looking at Her
Won't Back Down
The Positively True Adventures of the Alleged Texas Cheerleader-Murdering Mom