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Holly Hunter
Holly Hunter’s screen credits include Helen Parr / Elastigirl (voice) in The Incredibles, Senator Finch in Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, and Helen Parr / Elastigirl (voice) in Incredibles 2.
Born March 20, 1958 Conyers, Georgia, USA4 movies on MoviHero
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Holly Hunter (born March 20, 1958) is an American actress. Born in Conyers, Georgia, she first appeared as Helen Keller in a fifth-grade play before starring in Rockdale County High School stagings of Oklahoma!, Man of La Mancha, and Fiddler on the Roof. In Pittsburgh, she graduated from Carnegie Mellon University with a degree in drama and performed in local theatre. She then moved to New York City with Frances McDormand, beginning a Broadway career. After appearing in the 1981 slasher film The Burning, she moved to Los Angeles a year later, taking on various supporting roles in theatrical and television films before starring in Raising Arizona (1987) and receiving an Academy Award nomination for her role in Broadcast News (1987). She later went on to win 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). …
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For her performance as a mute Scottish woman in The Piano (1993), she won the Academy Award for Best Actress. Later, she was nominated for two more Oscars for The Firm (1993) and Thirteen (2003). 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.
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- 2028Incredibles 3Helen Parr / Elastigirl (voice)Upcoming
- 2026CrunchDirector
- 2025Incredicoaster | Disneyland ResortElastigirl (voice)
- 2025The Electric StateMadeline Vance
- 2020My Darling VivianSelf (archive footage)
- 2018Bergman: A Year in a LifeSelf
- 2017SpielbergSelf
- 2017The Big SickBeth Gardner
- 2017Song to SongMiranda
- 2017Breakable YouEleanor Weller
- 2016Strange WeatherDarcy Baylor
- 2015ManglehornDawn
- 2013ParadiseMelanie Mannerheim
- 2013From the Bottom of the Lakeherself
- 2013Trespassing BergmanSelf
- 2012Won't Back DownEvelyn Riske
- 2012JackieJackie
- 2012Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen(archive footage)
- 2011Portraits in Dramatic TimeActor
- 2006SangreCafe waitress
- 2005The Big WhiteMargaret Barnell
- 2005Nine LivesSonia
- 2004Little Black BookBarb
- 2003ThirteenProducer · Melanie
- 2003LevityAdele Easley
- 2003Moonlight Mile: A Journey to ScreenSelf / Mona Camp
- 2002Moonlight MileMona Camp
- 2002Searching for Debra WingerSelf
- 2001Festival in CannesSelf (uncredited)
- 2001Down from the MountainSelf
- 2001When Billie Beat BobbyProducer · Billie Jean King
- 2000The Coen BrothersSelf
- 2000O Brother, Where Art Thou?Penny
- 2000Jesus' SonMira
- 2000Things You Can Tell Just by Looking at HerRebecca Waynon (segment "Fantasies About Rebecca")
- 2000Harlan County WarRuby Kincaid
- 2000TimecodeRenee Fishbine
- 1999Woman WantedEmma Riley
- 1998Living Out LoudJudith Moore
- 1997A Life Less OrdinaryO'Reilly
- 1996CrashHelen Remington
- 1995Home for the HolidaysClaudia Larson
- 1995CopycatM.J. Monahan
- 1993The FirmTammy Hemphill
- 1993The PianoAda McGrath
- 1993The Positively True Adventures of the Alleged Texas Cheerleader-Murdering MomWanda Holloway
- 1993Inside 'The Piano'Self
- 1992Crazy in LoveGeorgie Symonds
- 1991Once AroundRenata Bella
- 1989AlwaysDorinda Durston
- 1989Animal BehaviorCoral Grable
- 1989Rabbit Ears - The Three Billy Goats Gruff/The Three Little PigsNarrator (voice)
- 1989Roe vs. WadeEllen Russell / Jane Doe
- 1989Miss FirecrackerCarnelle Scott
- 1987Broadcast NewsJane Craig
- 1987End of the LineCharlotte
- 1987A Gathering of Old MenCandy Marshall
- 1987Raising ArizonaEd
- 1985Blood SimpleHelene Trend (voice) (uncredited)
- 1984With Intent to KillWynn Nolen
- 1984Swing ShiftJeannie Sherman
- 1983An Uncommon LoveKaren
- 1983SvengaliLeslie
- 1981The BurningSophie
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