Holly Hunter
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.
| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 18.624 |
| Birthday | 1958-03-20 |
| Place of Birth | Conyers, Georgia, USA |
| Also Known As | 홀리 헌터, Holly Patricia Hunter, |
2000
O Brother, Where Art Thou?
7.326/4139
In the deep south during the 1930s, three escaped convicts search for hidden treasure while a relentless lawman pursues them. On their journey they co...
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O Brother, Where Art Thou?
1996
Crash
6.4/1117
After getting into a serious car accident, a TV director discovers an underground sub-culture of scarred, omnisexual car-crash victims, and he begins...
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Crash
1987
Raising Arizona
7.057/2086
When a childless couple--an ex-con and an ex-cop--decide to help themselves to one of another family's quintuplets, their lives become more complicate...
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Raising Arizona
1993
The Piano
7.377/1483
A mute Scottish woman arrives in colonial New Zealand for an arranged marriage. Her husband refuses to move her beloved piano, giving it to neighbor G...
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The Piano
1995
Copycat
6.505/948
An agoraphobic psychologist and a female detective must work together to take down a serial killer who copies serial killers from the past.
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Copycat
2000
Things You Can Tell Just by Looking at Her
5.8/94
In California, a group of women struggle with personal problems as their paths intertwine in unexpected ways. Dr. Elaine Keener, the sole caretaker fo...
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Things You Can Tell Just by Looking at Her
2003
Thirteen
6.6/1605
When average 13-year-old Tracy befriends Evie, the most popular girl in school, Tracy's world is turned upside down as Evie introduces her to a world...
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Thirteen
1989
Always
6.29/591
Aerial firefighter Pete risks himself and his vintage World War II airplane in a constant and death-defying quest to fight forest wildfires, much to t...
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Always
2002
Moonlight Mile
6.312/221
As he copes with the death of his fiancee along with her parents, a young man must figure out what he wants out of life.
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Moonlight Mile
1981
The Burning
6.252/397
A caretaker at a summer camp is burned when a prank goes tragically wrong. After several years of intensive treatment at hospital, he is released back...
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The Burning
1997
A Life Less Ordinary
6.123/450
A couple of angels, O'Reilly and Jackson, are sent to Earth to make sure that their next supervised love-connection succeeds. They follow Celine, a sp...
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A Life Less Ordinary
2000
Jesus' Son
6.309/68
A young man turns from drug addiction and petty crime to a life redeemed by a discovery of compassion.
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Jesus' Son
Hurricanna
0/0
In an attempt to save Anna Nicole Smith's life, her devoted therapist, Khristine embarks on a 36-hour odyssey in which she unknowingly delivers the fa...
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Hurricanna
1995
Home for the Holidays
6.251/179
After losing her job, making out with her soon-to-be former boss, and finding out that her daughter plans to spend Thanksgiving with her boyfriend, Cl...
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Home for the Holidays
1987
Broadcast News
6.724/407
Basket-case network news producer Jane Craig falls for new reporter Tom Grunnick, a pretty boy who represents the trend towards entertainment news she...
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Broadcast News
2005
The Big White
6.2/294
To remedy his financial problems, a travel agent has his eye on a frozen corpse, which just happens to be sought after by two hitmen.
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The Big White
2000
Timecode
5.649/87
A production company begins casting for its next feature, and an up-and-coming actress named Rose tries to manipulate her filmmaker boyfriend, Alex, i...
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Timecode
2004
Little Black Book
5.342/342
Determined to learn about her boyfriend's past relationships, Stacy -- who works for a talk show -- becomes a bona fide snoop. With her colleague, Bar...
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Little Black Book
1993
The Firm
6.743/1997
Mitch McDeere is a young man with a promising future in Law. About to sit his Bar exam, he is approached by 'The Firm' and made an offer he doesn't re...
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The Firm
2005
Nine Lives
6.006/77
Captives of the very relationships that define and sustain them, nine women resiliently meet the travails and disappointments of life.
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Nine Lives
1991
Once Around
6/57
Renata Bella feels like a failure at life and career. But when Renata attends a seminar on selling real estate, she finally finds True Love. Sam Sharp...
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Once Around
1984
Swing Shift
5.7/72
In 1941 America, Kay and her husband are happy enough until he enlists after Pearl Harbor. Against his wishes, she takes a job at the local aircraft p...
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Swing Shift
1998
Living Out Loud
5.8/45
Judith Moore is suddenly single after discovering her husband of fifteen years, a successful doctor, has been having an affair with a younger woman. J...
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Living Out Loud
1993
The Positively True Adventures of the Alleged Texas Cheerleader-Murdering Mom
6.5/20
A Texas housewife plots hire a hit man to kill the girl who beat out her daughter for a place on the cheerleading squad.
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The Positively True Adventures of the Alleged Texas Cheerleader-Murdering Mom
1987
End of the Line
5.5/12
When the closure of a railway is announced, employees commandeer a locomotive to get to corporate headquarters and confront the president.
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End of the Line
1999
Woman Wanted
6.2/8
After the death of his wife, Richard hires a recently divorced housekeeper, Emma. Soon finding himself falling for her, his emotionally destructive so...
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Woman Wanted
2001
When Billie Beat Bobby
5.5/15
The historic 1973 tennis match between middle-aged champion Bobby Riggs and young feminist Billie Jean King.
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When Billie Beat Bobby
1987
A Gathering of Old Men
6/10
A regular day in a Louisiana sugarcane plantation changes course when a local white farmer is shot in self defense. A group of old, black men takes a...
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A Gathering of Old Men
2012
Jackie
6.634/41
Two Dutch twin sisters travel to the United States, looking for their long-lost mother.
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Jackie
1992
Crazy in Love
4.4/8
Three generations of women live on a small island off the coast of Washington state with their men with whom they have no end of problems.
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Crazy in Love
2013
Paradise
5/57
After surviving a plane crash a young conservative woman suffers a crisis of faith.
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Paradise
2000
Harlan County War
7.35/10
A Kentucky woman whose mine-worker husband is nearly killed in a cave-in, and whose father is slowly dying of black lung disease, joins the picket lin...
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Harlan County War
2012
Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen
7.5/71
A film where anything can happen - the hero and the heroine changes their faces, age, look, names, and so on. The only same thing: The love between ma...
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Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen
2015
Manglehorn
5.406/203
AJ Manglehorn is an aging, ordinary guy in a small town. He nurses his sick cat, squeezes out a conversation with the local bank teller every Friday,...
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Manglehorn
2016
Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice
5.972/17966
Fearing the actions of a god-like Super Hero left unchecked, Gotham City’s own formidable, forceful vigilante takes on Metropolis’s most revered, mode...
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Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice
1989
Roe vs. Wade
6.8/8
Holly Hunter plays a lonely, single, poorly educated Texan who finds herself pregnant with no means to support a child. To avoid giving up the child,...
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Roe vs. Wade
1989
Miss Firecracker
5.6/24
Carnelle Scott is a restless Mississippi girl looking for a life change. She decides to enter a beauty pageant, which her cousin had won years before....
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Miss Firecracker
2003
Levity
6.2/101
Manuel Jordan is a man who is free after serving 23 years for killing a teenager during an attempted robbery. After nearly two decades of staring at h...
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Levity
2006
Sangre
0/0
Short movie about a grandfather, with memory issues, and his grandson taking a road trip to San Diego for the grandfather's and wife's 50th wedding an...
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Sangre
2013
From the Bottom of the Lake
0/0
The creative process at the heart of creating TV series Top of the Lake (2013). From the writing process with long-time collaborator Gerard Lee to sho...
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From the Bottom of the Lake
1984
Blood Simple
7.246/1416
The owner of a seedy small-town Texas bar discovers that one of his employees is having an affair with his wife. A chaotic chain of misunderstandings,...
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Blood Simple
2012
Won't Back Down
6.1/115
Jamie Fitzpatrick and Nona Alberts are two women from opposites sides of the social and economic track, but they have one thing in common: a mission t...
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Won't Back Down
2016
Strange Weather
5.887/53
Years after her son's suicide, a woman longs to confront both the past and a friend of his who took his business idea.
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Strange Weather
2004
The Incredibles
7.7/17660
Bob Parr has given up his superhero days to log in time as an insurance adjuster and raise his three children with his formerly heroic wife in suburbi...
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The Incredibles
2017
Breakable You
5.2/15
A divorced playwright and his therapist ex deal with new relationships and their daughter.
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Breakable You
2011
Portraits in Dramatic Time
8/1
A series of 40 art films created by artist David Michalek featuring performances of theater artists and actors of all genres and nationalities both we...
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Portraits in Dramatic Time
2017
Song to Song
5.462/858
In this modern love story set against the Austin, Texas music scene, two entangled couples — struggling songwriters Faye and BV, and music mogul Cook...
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Song to Song
2017
The Big Sick
7.3/2409
Pakistan-born comedian Kumail Nanjiani and grad student Emily Gardner fall in love but struggle as their cultures clash. When Emily contracts a myster...
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The Big Sick
1989
Rabbit Ears - The Three Billy Goats Gruff/The Three Little Pigs
0/0
The Three Billy Goats Gruff: When a troll threatens to eat up the billy goats who want to eat the grass on the other side of the bridge, the biggest b...
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Rabbit Ears - The Three Billy Goats Gruff/The Three Little Pigs
2003
Moonlight Mile: A Journey to Screen
10/1
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Moonlight Mile: A Journey to Screen
2017
Spielberg
7.577/280
A documentary on the life and career of one of the most influential film directors of all time, Steven Spielberg.
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Spielberg
2013
Trespassing Bergman
6.6/27
In the sixties, Swedish filmmaker Ingmar Bergman (1918-2007) built a house on the remote island of Fårö, located in the Baltic Sea, and left Stockholm...
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Trespassing Bergman
2000
The Coen Brothers
7.5/2
During the promotional campaign for "O Brother, Where Art Thou?" in 1999, BBC broadcast a documentary about the Coen brothers, mainly concerning their...
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The Coen Brothers
2018
Bergman: A Year in a Life
7.4/36
The year 1957 was one of the most prolific for the Swedish filmmaker Ingmar Bergman: he shot two films, released two of his most celebrated films and...
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Bergman: A Year in a Life
2018
Incredibles 2
7.462/12858
Elastigirl springs into action to save the day, while Mr. Incredible faces his greatest challenge yet – taking care of the problems of his three child...
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Incredibles 2
1989
Animal Behavior
2.3/3
Biologist Alex Brisco develops a new method to communicate with chimpanzees. Instead of using machines, she teaches the chimps simple sign language. H...
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Animal Behavior
2014
And the Oscar Goes To...
6.971/51
The story of the gold-plated statuette that became the film industry's most coveted prize, AND THE OSCAR GOES TO... traces the history of the Academy...
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And the Oscar Goes To...
1983
Svengali
4.7/6
An old singer coaches a young woman whom he believes will be the next singing sensation. As she starts off with her career, their bond gets stronger....
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Svengali
2020
My Darling Vivian
7.5/8
The story of Vivian Liberto, Johnny Cash's first wife and the mother of his four daughters. Includes never-before-seen footage and photographs of John...
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My Darling Vivian
2001
Down from the Mountain
7.4/8
On May 24, 2000, the historic Ryman Auditorium was booked to offer Nashvillians an evening of sublime beauty. Label executives and soundtrack producer...
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Down from the Mountain
2002
Searching for Debra Winger
6.3/15
Rosanna Arquette talks to various actresses about the pressures they face as women working in the entertainment industry.
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Searching for Debra Winger
1983
An Uncommon Love
1.5/2
Recently divorced college professor, Kinser, becomes attracted to comely student Cynthia who's studying marine biology, only to learn that she is not...
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An Uncommon Love
2001
Festival in Cannes
6/1
Cannes, 1999. Alice, an actress, wants to direct an indie picture. Kaz, a talkative (and maybe bogus) deal maker, promises $3 million if she'll use Mi...
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Festival in Cannes
1984
With Intent to Kill
0/0
A high school football hero Bo Reinecker tries to piece together the events leading up to murder of his girl friend Lisa Nolen. Claiming to have exper...
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With Intent to Kill
2025
The Electric State
0/0
In a retro-futuristic past, orphaned teenager Michelle traverses the American West with an eccentric drifter and a sweet but mysterious robot in searc...
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