Holly Hunter

Holly Hunter

actress, producer, additional crew

Holly Hunter was born on Mar 20, 1958 in USA. Holly Hunter's big-screen debut came with The Burning directed by Tony Maylam in 1981. Holly Hunter is known for The Comey Rule directed by Billy Ray, Jeff Daniels stars as James Comey and Holly Hunter as Sally Yates. Holly Hunter has got 47 awards and 98 nominations so far. The most recent award Holly Hunter achieved is Online Film & Television Association. The upcoming new tvshow Holly Hunter plays is Pixar Popcorn - Season 1 which will be released on Jan 22, 2021.

Holly Hunter was born in Conyers, Georgia, to Opal Marguerite (Catledge), a homemaker, and Charles Edwin Hunter, a part-time sporting goods company representative and farmer with a 250 acre farm. She is the youngest of seven children. Her parents encouraged her talent at an early age, and her first acting part was as Helen Keller in a fifth-grade play. In 1976 she went to Pittsburgh to pursue a degree in drama from Carnegie Mellon University. After graduating in 1980, she went to New York City, where she met playwright Beth Henley in a stalled elevator. Hunter went on to get roles in a number of Henley's southern gothic plays, including Crimes of the Heart and The Miss Firecracker Contest. In 1982 the actress went to Los Angeles. She landed her first starring role in the movies in the Coen brothers' Raising Arizona (1987), a part that is said to have been written with her in mind. She gained stardom in 1987 when she played the driven TV news producer Jane Craig in James L. Brooks' Broadcast News (1987). In 1993 she earned an Academy Award and worldwide acclaim with her performance as a mute bride to a New Zealand planter in The Piano (1993).

  • Birthday

    Mar 20, 1958
  • Place of Birth

    Conyers, Georgia, USA
  • Also known

    홀리 헌터

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Awards

47 wins & 98 nominations

Online Film & Television Association
2022
Acting
Winner - OFTA Film Hall of Fame
Alliance of Women Film Journalists
2019
Best Animated Female
Winner - EDA Female Focus Award
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