
Holly Hunter
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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Known For
Acting History
2026
Star Trek: Starfleet Academy as Nahla Ake
2025The Electric State as Madeline Vance
2024LEGO Pixar: BrickToons as Helen Parr (voice)
2023Mulligan as (voice)
2021Pixar Popcorn as Helen Parr (voice)
2021Mr. Mayor as Arpi
2020The Comey Rule as Sally Yates
2020My Darling Vivian as Self (archive footage)
2019Bless the Harts as Marjune (voice)
2018Bergman: A Year in a Life as Self
2018Incredibles 2 as Helen Parr / Elastigirl (voice)
2018Succession as Rhea Jarrell
2018Here and Now as Audrey Bayer-Boatwright
2017Spielberg as Self
2017Big Mouth
2017The Big Sick as Beth Gardner
2017Song to Song as Miranda
2017Breakable You as Eleanor Weller
2016Strange Weather as Darcy Baylor
2016Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice as Senator Finch
2015Manglehorn as Dawn
2014Variety Studio: Actors on Actors as Self
2014Late Night with Seth Meyers as Self
2014Off Camera with Sam Jones as Self
2013Bonnie & Clyde as Emma Parker
2013Paradise as Melanie Mannerheim
2013From the Bottom of the Lake as herself
2013Trespassing Bergman as Self
2013The Frame as Helen Remington
2013Top of the Lake as GJ
2012Won't Back Down as Evelyn Riske
2012Jackie as Jackie
2012Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen as (archive footage)
2011Portraits in Dramatic Time
2009Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen as Self - Guest
2009Late Night with Jimmy Fallon as Self
2009Skavlan as Self - Guest
2007Saving Grace as Grace Hanadarko
2006Sangre as Cafe waitress
2005The Big White as Margaret Barnell
2005Nine Lives as Sonia
2004The Incredibles as Helen Parr / Elastigirl (voice)
2004Little Black Book as Barb
2003The Ellen DeGeneres Show as Self
2003Thirteen as Melanie
2003Levity as Adele Easley
2003Moonlight Mile: A Journey to Screen as Self / Mona Camp
2002Moonlight Mile as Mona Camp
2002Searching for Debra Winger as Self
2001Festival in Cannes as Self (uncredited)
2001Down from the Mountain as Self
2001When Billie Beat Bobby as Billie Jean King
2000The Coen Brothers as Self
2000O Brother, Where Art Thou? as Penny
2000Jesus' Son as Mira
2000Things You Can Tell Just by Looking at Her as Rebecca Waynon (segment "Fantasies About Rebecca")
2000Harlan County War as Ruby Kincaid
2000Timecode as Renee Fishbine
1999Woman Wanted as Emma Riley
1998Living Out Loud as Judith Moore
1997A Life Less Ordinary as O'Reilly
1997The View as Self
1996Crash as Helen Remington
1996The Rosie O'Donnell Show as Self - Guest
1995Home for the Holidays as Claudia Larson
1995Copycat as M.J. Monahan
1995Eco-Challenge
1994Inside the Actors Studio as Self
1993Intimate Portrait as Self
1993Late Night with Conan O'Brien as Self - Guest
1993The Firm as Tammy Hemphill
1993The Piano as Ada McGrath
1993The Positively True Adventures of the Alleged Texas Cheerleader-Murdering Mom as Wanda Holloway
1993Inside 'The Piano' as Self
1992Crazy in Love as Georgie Symonds
1992The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
1991Once Around as Renata Bella
1989Always as Dorinda Durston
1989Animal Behavior as Coral Grable
1989Rabbit Ears - The Three Billy Goats Gruff/The Three Little Pigs as Narrator (voice)
1989Roe vs. Wade as Ellen Russell / Jane Doe
1989Miss Firecracker as Carnelle Scott
1988American Experience as Mary Lincoln (voice)
1988LIVE with Kelly and Mark
1987Broadcast News as Jane Craig
1987End of the Line as Charlotte
1987A Gathering of Old Men as Candy Marshall
1987Raising Arizona as Ed
1985Blood Simple as Helene Trend (voice) (uncredited)
1984With Intent to Kill as Wynn Nolen
1984Swing Shift as Jeannie Sherman
1983An Uncommon Love as Karen
1983Svengali as Leslie
1981Entertainment Tonight as Self
1981The Burning as Sophie
1953The Oscars as Self
—Incredibles 3 as Helen Parr / Elastigirl (Voice)
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