Holly Hunter
Birthday: 1958-03-20
Place of Birth: Conyers, Georgia, USA
Biography: 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.
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O Brother, Where Art Thou?
In the deep south during the 1930s, three escaped convicts search for hidden treasure while a relent...
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Crash
A car crash victim suddenly finds himself turned on by car accidents and becomes involved with an un...
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Raising Arizona
When a childless couple--an ex-con and an ex-cop--decide to help themselves to one of another family...
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The Piano
When an arranged marriage brings Ada and her spirited daughter to the wilderness of nineteenth-centu...
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Copycat
An agoraphobic psychologist and a female detective must work together to take down a serial killer w...
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Things You Can Tell Just by Looking at Her
In California, a group of women struggle with personal problems as their paths intertwine in unexpec...
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Thirteen
When 13-year-old Tracy befriends Evie, the most popular girl in school, her life is turned upside do...
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Always
The spirit of a recently deceased expert pilot mentors a newer pilot while watching him fall in love...
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Moonlight Mile
As he copes with the death of his fiancee along with her parents, a young man must figure out what h...
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The Burning
A caretaker at a summer camp is burned when a prank goes tragically wrong. After several years of in...
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A Life Less Ordinary
A couple of angels, O'Reilly and Jackson, are sent to Earth to make sure that their next supervised ...
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Jesus' Son
A young man turns from drug addiction and petty crime to a life redeemed by a discovery of compassio...
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Hurricanna
In an attempt to save Anna Nicole Smith's life, her devoted therapist, Khristine embarks on a 36-hou...
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Home for the Holidays
After losing her job, making out with her soon-to-be former boss, and finding out that her daughter ...
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Broadcast News
A high-strung news producer finds herself in a love triangle between a talented but self-doubting re...
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The Big White
To remedy his financial problems, a travel agent has his eye on a frozen corpse, which just happens ...
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Timecode
A production company begins casting for its next feature, and an up-and-coming actress named Rose tr...
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Little Black Book
Determined to learn about her boyfriend's past relationships, Stacy -- who works for a talk show -- ...
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The Firm
Mitch McDeere is a young man with a promising future in Law. About to sit his Bar exam, he is approa...
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Nine Lives
Captives of the very relationships that define and sustain them, nine women resiliently meet the tra...
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Once Around
Renata Bella feels like a failure at life and career. But when Renata attends a seminar on selling r...
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Swing Shift
In 1941 America, Kay and her husband are happy enough until he enlists after Pearl Harbor. Against h...
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Living Out Loud
Judith Moore is suddenly single after discovering her husband of fifteen years, a successful doctor,...
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The Positively True Adventures of the Alleged Texas Cheerleader-Murdering Mom
A Texas housewife plots hire a hit man to kill the girl who beat out her daughter for a place on the...
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End of the Line
When the closure of a railway is announced, employees commandeer a locomotive to get to corporate he...
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Woman Wanted
After the death of his wife, Richard hires a recently divorced housekeeper, Emma. Soon finding himse...
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When Billie Beat Bobby
The historic 1973 tennis match between middle-aged champion Bobby Riggs and young feminist Billie Je...
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A Gathering of Old Men
A group of elderly Black men on a Louisiana plantation gather to claim responsibility for the murder...
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Jackie
Two Dutch twin sisters travel to the United States, looking for their long-lost mother....
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Crazy in Love
Three generations of women live on a small island off the coast of Washington state with their men w...
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Paradise
After surviving a plane crash a young conservative woman suffers a crisis of faith....
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Harlan County War
A Kentucky woman whose mine-worker husband is nearly killed in a cave-in, and whose father is slowly...
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Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen
A film where anything can happen - the hero and the heroine changes their faces, age, look, names, a...
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Manglehorn
AJ Manglehorn is an aging, ordinary guy in a small town. He nurses his sick cat, squeezes out a conv...
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Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice
Fearing the actions of a god-like Super Hero left unchecked, Gotham City’s own formidable, forceful ...
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Roe vs. Wade
Holly Hunter plays a lonely, single, poorly educated Texan who finds herself pregnant with no means ...
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Miss Firecracker
Carnelle Scott is a restless Mississippi girl looking for a life change. She decides to enter a beau...
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Levity
Manuel Jordan is a man who is free after serving 23 years for killing a teenager during an attempted...
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Sangre
Short movie about a grandfather, with memory issues, and his grandson taking a road trip to San Dieg...
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From the Bottom of the Lake
The creative process at the heart of creating TV series Top of the Lake (2013). From the writing pro...
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Blood Simple
The owner of a seedy small-town Texas bar discovers that one of his employees is having an affair wi...
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Won't Back Down
Jamie Fitzpatrick and Nona Alberts are two women from opposites sides of the social and economic tra...
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Strange Weather
Years after her son's suicide, a woman longs to confront both the past and a friend of his who took ...
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The Incredibles
Bob Parr has given up his superhero days to log in time as an insurance adjuster and raise his three...
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Breakable You
A divorced playwright and his therapist ex deal with new relationships and their daughter....
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Portraits in Dramatic Time
A series of 40 art films created by artist David Michalek featuring performances of theater artists ...
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Song to Song
In this modern love story set against the Austin, Texas music scene, two entangled couples — struggl...
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The Big Sick
Pakistan-born comedian Kumail Nanjiani and grad student Emily Gardner fall in love but struggle as t...
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Rabbit Ears - The Three Billy Goats Gruff/The Three Little Pigs
The Three Billy Goats Gruff: When a troll threatens to eat up the billy goats who want to eat the gr...
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Moonlight Mile: A Journey to Screen
Showing the journey to the creation of the film Moonlight Mile....
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Spielberg
A documentary on the life and career of one of the most influential film directors of all time, Stev...
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Trespassing Bergman
In the sixties, Swedish filmmaker Ingmar Bergman (1918-2007) built a house on the remote island of F...
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The Coen Brothers
During the promotional campaign for "O Brother, Where Art Thou?" in 1999, BBC broadcast a documentar...
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Bergman: A Year in a Life
The year 1957 was one of the most prolific for the Swedish filmmaker Ingmar Bergman: he shot two fil...
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Incredibles 2
Elastigirl springs into action to save the day, while Mr. Incredible faces his greatest challenge ye...
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Animal Behavior
Biologist Alex Brisco develops a new method to communicate with chimpanzees. Instead of using machin...
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Svengali
An old singer coaches a young woman whom he believes will be the next singing sensation. As she star...
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My Darling Vivian
The story of Vivian Liberto, Johnny Cash's first wife and the mother of his four daughters. Includes...
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Down from the Mountain
On May 24, 2000, the historic Ryman Auditorium was booked to offer Nashvillians an evening of sublim...
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Searching for Debra Winger
Rosanna Arquette talks to various actresses about the pressures they face as women working in the en...
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An Uncommon Love
Recently divorced college professor, Kinser, becomes attracted to comely student Cynthia who's study...
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Festival in Cannes
Cannes, 1999. Alice, an actress, wants to direct an indie picture. Kaz, a talkative (and maybe bogus...
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With Intent to Kill
A high school football hero Bo Reinecker tries to piece together the events leading up to murder of ...
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The Electric State
An orphaned teen hits the road with a mysterious robot to find her long-lost brother, teaming up wit...
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Inside 'The Piano'
This 1993 program about the making of 'The Piano' features interviews with director Jane Campion; ac...
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