Holly Hunter

Holly Hunter
Hunter at the 2015 San Diego Comic-Con
Born (1958-03-20) March 20, 1958 (age 66)
EducationCarnegie Mellon University (BFA)
OccupationActress
Years active1981–present
Spouse
(m. 1995; div. 2001)
PartnerGordon MacDonald (2001–present)
Children2
AwardsFull list

Holly Hunter (born March 20, 1958)[1] is an American actress. Hunter won the Academy Award for Best Actress for her performance as Ada McGrath in the 1993 drama film The Piano. She earned three additional Academy Award nominations for Broadcast News (1987), The Firm (1993), and Thirteen (2003). She won two Primetime Emmy Awards for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Limited Series or Movie for the television films Roe vs. Wade (1989) and The Positively True Adventures of the Alleged Texas Cheerleader-Murdering Mom (1993). She also starred in the TNT drama series Saving Grace (2007–2010).

Hunter's other film roles include Raising Arizona (1987), Always (1989), Miss Firecracker (1989), Home for the Holidays (1995), Crash (1996), O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000), The Incredibles (2004) and 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.

  1. ^ "UPI Almanac for Saturday, March 20, 2021". United Press International. March 20, 2021. Archived from the original on March 20, 2021. Retrieved January 17, 2022. actor Holly Hunter in 1958 (age 63)