Holly Hunter

Holly Hunter

CountryUnited States United States
GenderFemale
BirthdayMar 20, 1958
BiographyHolly Hunter (born March 20, 1958) is an American actress. For her performance as a mute Scottish woman in The Piano (1993), she won the Academy Award for Best Actress. She earned three more Academy Award nominations for Broadcast News (1987), The Firm (1993), and Thirteen (2003). She also won two Primetime Emmy Awards for her performances in the television films Roe vs. Wade (1989) and The Positively True Adventures of the Alleged Texas Cheerleader-Murdering Mom (1993). Other major accolades she has won include an AACTA Award, a Silver Bear, a BAFTA Award, a Cannes Film Festival Award and a Golden Globe.

Hunter's other film roles include Raising Arizona (1987), Always (1989), Home for the Holidays (1995), Copycat (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). She also starred in the TNT drama series Saving Grace (2007–2010), and the Paramount+ upcoming series Star Trek: Starfleet Academy (2026).

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as Chancellor Nahla Ake
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as Emma Parker
Here and Now
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as Audrey Black
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as Arpi Meskimen
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as Helen Parr / Elastigirl
Saving Grace
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as Grace Hanadarko
Succession
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as Rhea Jarrell
The Comey Rule
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as Acting Attorney General Sally Yates
Top of the Lake
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Top of the Lake

as GJ

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