
Holly Hunter
Acting
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.
Born: March 20, 1958 · Conyers, Georgia, USA
Filmography (86)

Star Trek: Starfleet Academy
2026

The Electric State
2025

LEGO Pixar: BrickToons
2024

Mulligan
2023

Pixar Popcorn
2021

Mr. Mayor
2021

The Comey Rule
2020

My Darling Vivian
2020

Bless the Harts
2019

Bergman: A Year in a Life
2018

Incredibles 2
2018

Succession
2018

Here and Now
2018

Spielberg
2017

Big Mouth
2017

The Big Sick
2017

Song to Song
2017

Breakable You
2017

Strange Weather
2016

Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice
2016

Manglehorn
2015

Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
2014

Late Night with Seth Meyers
2014

Off Camera with Sam Jones
2014

Bonnie & Clyde
2013

Paradise
2013

Trespassing Bergman
2013

The Frame
2013

Top of the Lake
2013

Won't Back Down
2012

Jackie
2012

Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen
2012

Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
2009

Late Night with Jimmy Fallon
2009

Skavlan
2009

Saving Grace
2007

The Big White
2005

Nine Lives
2005

The Incredibles
2004

Little Black Book
2004

Peep and the Big Wide World
2004

The Ellen DeGeneres Show
2003

Thirteen
2003

Levity
2003

Moonlight Mile
2002

Searching for Debra Winger
2002

Down from the Mountain
2001

When Billie Beat Bobby
2001

Lost Souls
2000

O Brother, Where Art Thou?
2000

Jesus' Son
2000

Things You Can Tell Just by Looking at Her
2000

Harlan County War
2000

Timecode
2000

Woman Wanted
1999

Living Out Loud
1998

A Life Less Ordinary
1997

The View
1997

Crash
1996

The Rosie O'Donnell Show
1996

Home for the Holidays
1995

Copycat
1995

Inside the Actors Studio
1994

Intimate Portrait
1993

Late Night with Conan O'Brien
1993

The Firm
1993

The Piano
1993

The Positively True Adventures of the Alleged Texas Cheerleader-Murdering Mom
1993

Crazy in Love
1992

The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
1992

Once Around
1991

Always
1989

Roe vs. Wade
1989

Miss Firecracker
1989

American Experience
1988

LIVE with Kelly and Mark
1988

Broadcast News
1987

End of the Line
1987

A Gathering of Old Men
1987

Raising Arizona
1987

Blood Simple
1985

Swing Shift
1984

Svengali
1983

Entertainment Tonight
1981

The Burning
1981

The Oscars
1953
