| Holly Hunter  Born: 20-Mar-1958
Birthplace: Conyers, GA
Gender: Female
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Actor Nationality: United States
Executive summary: The Piano Holly Hunter is a tart but likable American actress, best known for making wacky women sympathetic on the screen. In her most famous roles, she played a cop in love with ex-con Nicolas Cage in Raising Arizona, a neurotic news executive in Broadcast News, a pianist waiting to be played in Jane Campion's The Piano, and a woman aroused by car accidents in David Cronenberg's Crash.
She was raised on a farm in Georgia, the youngest of six children. She studied drama at Pittsburgh's Carnegie Mellon University, and shared an apartment with Frances McDormand while both were struggling actresses in New York. When McDormand made Joel and Ethan Coen's Blood Simple, Hunter snagged an off-screen part as a voice on an answering machine. The Coens later wrote Raising Arizona with Hunter in mind, and she co-starred in their O Brother, Where Art Thou?
Father: Charles Edwin Hunter (sporting goods salesman, farmer)
Mother: Opal Marguerite Catledge Hunter (housewife)
Boyfriend: Arliss Howard (actor, together early 1990s)
Husband: Janusz Kaminski (cinematographer, m. 20-May-1995, div. 21-Dec-2001)
University: BFA Drama, Carnegie Mellon University (1980)
4-H Club
NARAL
Oscar for Best Actress 1994 for The Piano
Golden Globe 1994 for The Piano
Emmy 1989 for Roe vs. Wade
Emmy 1993 for The Positively True Adventures of the Alleged Texas Cheerleader-Murdering Mom
Risk Factors: Smoking
TELEVISION
Saving Grace Grace Hanadarko (2007-10)
FILMOGRAPHY AS ACTOR
Incredibles 2 (5-Jun-2018) [VOICE]
Robin Williams: Come Inside My Mind (Jan-2018) · Herself
Song to Song (10-Mar-2017)
The Big Sick (20-Jan-2017)
Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice (12-Mar-2016)
Manglehorn (30-Aug-2014)
Bonnie & Clyde (8-Dec-2013)
Paradise (8-Aug-2013)
Won't Back Down (28-Sep-2012)
The Big White (13-May-2005) · Margaret
Nine Lives (24-Jan-2005) · Sonia
The Incredibles (27-Oct-2004) · Helen Parr [VOICE]
Little Black Book (6-Aug-2004) · Barb
Thirteen (17-Jan-2003) · Melanie
Levity (16-Jan-2003) · Adele Easley
Moonlight Mile (9-Sep-2002) · Mona Camp
Searching for Debra Winger (16-May-2002) · Herself
When Billie Beat Bobby (16-Apr-2001) · Billie Jean King
O Brother, Where Art Thou? (22-Dec-2000)
Down from the Mountain (Dec-2000) · Herself
Harlan County War (4-Jun-2000)
Timecode (22-Mar-2000) · Executive
Things You Can Tell Just by Looking at Her (22-Jan-2000) · Rebecca
Woman Wanted (2000)
Jesus' Son (5-Sep-1999) · Mira
Living Out Loud (15-Sep-1998)
A Life Less Ordinary (24-Oct-1997) · O'Reilly
Crash (17-May-1996)
Home for the Holidays (3-Nov-1995)
Copycat (27-Oct-1995)
The Firm (30-Jun-1993)
The Piano (19-May-1993) · Ada
The Positively True Adventures of the Alleged Texas Cheerleader-Murdering Mom (10-Apr-1993)
Crazy in Love (10-Aug-1992)
Once Around (18-Jan-1991)
Always (22-Dec-1989) · Dorinda Durston
Animal Behavior (27-Oct-1989)
Roe vs. Wade (15-May-1989)
Miss Firecracker (28-Apr-1989)
Broadcast News (16-Dec-1987) · Jane Craig
End of the Line (28-Aug-1987) · Charlotte
A Gathering of Old Men (10-May-1987)
Raising Arizona (6-Mar-1987) · Ed
Swing Shift (13-Apr-1984)
Svengali (9-Mar-1983)
The Burning (8-May-1981) · Sophie
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