
Acting
Community Rating
6.0
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Born
March 20, 1958 (age 68)
Born in
Conyers, Georgia, USA
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.

Incredibles 3
Helen Parr / Elastigirl (voice)
2028

Incredicoaster | Disneyland Resort
Elastigirl (voice)
2025

Hurricanna
2025

The Electric State
Madeline Vance
2025

My Darling Vivian
Self (archive footage)
2020

Bergman: A Year in a Life
Self
2018

Incredibles 2
Helen Parr / Elastigirl (voice)
2018

Spielberg
Self
2017

The Big Sick
Beth Gardner
2017

Song to Song
Miranda
2017

Breakable You
Eleanor Weller
2017

Strange Weather
Darcy Baylor
2016

Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice
Senator Finch
2016

Manglehorn
Dawn
2015

Paradise
Melanie Mannerheim
2013
From the Bottom of the Lake
herself
2013

Trespassing Bergman
Self
2013

Won't Back Down
Evelyn Riske
2012

Jackie
Jackie
2012

Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen
(archive footage)
2012