
Helen Hunt
Biography
Helen Elizabeth Hunt (born June 15, 1963) is an American actress and director. She is the recipient of numerous accolades, including an Academy Award, four Primetime Emmy Awards, and four Golden Globe Awards.
Hunt rose to fame in 1992, portraying Jamie Buchman in the sitcom Mad About You which earned her three Golden Globe Awards for Best Actress and four Primetime Emmy Awards for Lead Actress.
In 1997, Hunt won the Academy Award for Best Actress for starring as Carol Connelly in the romantic comedy As Good as It Gets, while her portrayal of Cheryl Cohen-Greene in The Sessions (2012), gained her a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. Her other notable films include Twister (1996), Cast Away (2000), What Women Want (2000), Pay It Forward (2000), Bobby (2006), Soul Surfer (2011), and The Miracle Season (2018).
Hunt made her directorial film debut with Then She Found Me (2007), and has directed the film Ride (2014), and episodes of television series, including House of Lies, This Is Us, Feud: Bette and Joan, American Housewife, and the premiere episode of the Mad About You revival.
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Acting History
2026
In Cold Light as Claire
2022Meet Marry Murder as Narrator (voice)
2021How It Ends as Lucinda
2021Blindspotting as Rainey
2021Hacks as Winnie Landell
2020Who Wants to Be a Millionaire as Self - Contestant
2020The Night Clerk as Ethel Bromley
2019Mad About You as Jamie Buchman
2019World on Fire as Nancy Campbell
2019I See You as Jackie Harper
2019The Kelly Clarkson Show as Self
2018CinemAbility: The Art of Inclusion as Self
2018United We Fan as Self (archive footage)
2018Candy Jar as Kathy
2018The Miracle Season as Kathy Bresnahan
2017I Love You, Daddy as Aura Topher
2017Shots Fired as Governor Patricia Eamons
2015The Late Late Show with James Corden as Self
2014Ride as Jackie
2014Decoding Annie Parker as Mary-Claire King
2012Wide-Awake as The Yoga Master
2012The Sessions as Cheryl
2011Jock the Hero Dog as Jess (voice)
2011Soul Surfer as Cheri Hamilton
2010Who Do You Think You Are? as Self
2010Every Day as Jeannie
2009Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen as Self - Guest
2007Then She Found Me as April Epner
2007Saturday Night Live in the '90s: Pop Culture Nation as Self
2006Bobby as Samantha Stevens
2005The Reichen Show as Self - Guest
2005Empire Falls as Janine Roby
2005Aliens Gone Wild as Lena (archive footage)
2004A Good Woman as Stella Erlynne
2003The Ellen DeGeneres Show as Self
2003Working Shakespeare
2002NBC 75th Anniversary Special as Self
2001The Curse of the Jade Scorpion as Betty Ann Fitzgerald
2000Cast Away as Kelly Frears
2000What Women Want as Darcy McGuire
2000Pay It Forward as Arlene McKinney
2000Dr. T & the Women as Bree Davis
1998Twelfth Night as Viola & Cesario
1998Chicken Little as (voice)
1997As Good as It Gets as Carol Connelly
1997The View as Self
1996Twister as Jo
1995Kiss of Death as Bev Kilmartin
1994Friends as Jamie Buchman
1994Inside the Actors Studio as Self
1994Ellen as Ellen Screen Test #2
1993Late Night with Conan O'Brien as Self - Guest
1993Sexual Healing as Rene
1993In the Company of Darkness as Gina Pulasky
1992Trancers 3: Deth Lives as Lena
1992Mad About You as Jamie Buchman
1992Mr. Saturday Night as Annie Wells
1992Bob Roberts as Rose Pondell
1992The Larry Sanders Show as Helen Hunt
1992The Tonight Show with Jay Leno as Self
1992The Waterdance as Anna
1992Only You as Clare Enfield
1991Murder in New Hampshire: The Pamela Wojas Smart Story as Pamela Smart
1991Trancers II: The Return of Jack Deth as Lena Deth
1991Into the Badlands as Blossom
1991My Life and Times as Rebecca Miller
1991Videozone: The Making of "Trancers II" as Self
1990The Trials of Rosie O'Neill as Bridget Kane
1990The Easter Story as Jerusalem Woman #1 (voice)
1989The Simpsons as Renee (voice)
1989Incident at Dark River as Jesse McCandless
1989Next of Kin as Jessie Gates
1988Miles from Home as Jennifer
1988Shooter as Tracey
1988LIVE with Kelly and Mark as Self - Guest
1988Stealing Home as Hope Wyatt
1988China Beach as Amanda "Sissy" Simpson
1988Trancers: City of Lost Angels as Lena
1988Pulse Pounders as Leena (Trancers sequence)
1987Project X as Teri Macdonald
1986Peggy Sue Got Married as Beth Bodell
1986The Frog Prince as Princess Henrietta
1986The Nativity as Mary (voice)
1985Galtar and the Golden Lance as Rava (voice)
1985Girls Just Want to Have Fun as Lynne Stone
1984Trancers as Leena
1984Sweet Revenge as Debbie Markham
1984Highway to Heaven as Lizzy MacGill
1983Choices of the Heart as Cathy
1983Quarterback Princess as Tami Maida
1983The Hitchhiker as Donette
1983Bill: On His Own as Jenny Wells
1982Christmas in Washington as Self
1982St. Elsewhere as Clancy Williams
1982It Takes Two as Lisa Quinn
1982Desperate Lives as Sandy Cameron
1982Late Night with David Letterman as Self
1981Child Bride of Short Creek as Naomi
1981Darkroom as Nancy Lawrence
1981Gimme a Break! as Valerie
1981The Miracle of Kathy Miller as Kathy Miller
1981I Think I'm Having A Baby as Phoebe
1981Angel Dusted as Lizzie Eaton
1979Knots Landing as Brenda
1979The Facts of Life as Emily
1979Transplant as Janice Hurley
1978CBS Afternoon Playhouse as Phoebe
1977The Fitzpatricks as Kerry Gerardi
1977Rollercoaster as Tracy Calder
1977The Spell as Kristina Matchett
1976Battle of the Network Stars
1976Having Babies as Sharon McNamara
1976Ark II as Diana
1976The Bionic Woman as Princess Aura
1975Saturday Night Live as Self - Host
1975Death Scream as Teila Rodriguez
1975The Swiss Family Robinson as Helga Wagner
1975All Together Now as Susan Lindsay
1974Amy Prentiss as Jill Prentiss
1973Pioneer Woman as Sarah Sargeant
1970The Mary Tyler Moore Show as Laurie Slaughter
1962The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson as Self
1953The Oscars as Self
1944Golden Globe Awards as Self - Winner
—A Patriot as Scarlett
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