Cast & creator
Holly Hunter
Best known for Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen, Late Night with Seth Meyers, The View
Holly Hunter (born March 20, 1958) is an American actress. Born in Conyers, Georgia, she first appeared as Helen Keller in a fifth-grade play before starring in Rockdale County High School stagings of Oklahoma!, Man of La Mancha, and Fiddler on the Roof. In Pittsburgh, she graduated from Carnegie Mellon University with a degree in drama and performed in local theatre. She then moved to New York City with Frances McDormand, beginning a Broadway career. After appearing in the 1981 slasher film The Burning, she moved to Los Angeles a year later, taking on various supporting roles in theatrical and television films before starring in Raising Arizona (1987) and receiving an Academy Award nomination for her role in Broadcast News (1987). She later went on to win two Primetime Emmy Awards for her performances in the television films Roe vs. Wade (1989) and The Positively True Adventures of the Alleged Texas Cheerleader-Murdering Mom (1993). For her performance as a mute Scottish woman in The Piano (1993), she won the Academy Award for Best Actress. Later, she was nominated for two more Oscars for The Firm (1993) and Thirteen (2003). Other major accolades she has won include an AACTA Award, a Silver Bear, a BAFTA Award, a Cannes Film Festival Award and a Golden Globe. Description above from the Wikipedia article Holly Hunter, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Also known as: 홀리 헌터, Holly Patricia Hunter, هالی هانتر
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film credits
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television credits
100
1953–2028 · acting roles
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Across film & television
Filmography (104)
Showing 104 of 104 credits
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
Self - Guest
2009
Late Night with Seth Meyers
Self - Guest
2014
The View
Self - Guest
1997
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
1988
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
Self - Guest
1993
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
Self - Guest
1992
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
Self - Guest
2003
American Experience
Mary Lincoln (voice)
1988
Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
Self
2014
Succession
Rhea Jarrell
2018
Intimate Portrait
Self
1993
Late Night with Jimmy Fallon
Self - Guest
2009
Big Mouth
2017
Off Camera with Sam Jones
Self
2014
The Incredibles
Helen Parr / Elastigirl (voice)
2004
The Oscars
Self
1953
Saving Grace
Grace Hanadarko
2007
Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice
Senator Finch
2016
Skavlan
Self - Guest
2009
Incredibles 2
Helen Parr / Elastigirl (voice)
2018
Star Trek: Starfleet Academy
Nahla Ake
2026
The Electric State
Madeline Vance
2025
Peep and the Big Wide World
Robin (voice)
2004
Entertainment Tonight
Self
1981
Mulligan
(voice)
2023
Bless the Harts
Marjune (voice)
2019
Mr. Mayor
Arpi
2021
O Brother, Where Art Thou?
Penny
2000
The Firm
Tammy Hemphill
1993
Copycat
M.J. Monahan
1995
The Rosie O'Donnell Show
Self - Guest
1996
Top of the Lake
GJ
2013
LEGO Pixar: BrickToons
Helen Parr (voice)
2024
Crash
Helen Remington
1996
The Piano
Ada McGrath
1993
Raising Arizona
Ed
1987
The Big Sick
Beth Gardner
2017
The Frame
Helen Remington
2013
Blood Simple
Helene Trend (voice) (uncredited)
1985
Pixar Popcorn
Helen Parr (voice)
2021
Thirteen
Melanie
2003Thirteen
Executive Producer
2003
Here and Now
Audrey Bayer-Boatwright
2018
Little Black Book
Barb
2004
The Comey Rule
Sally Yates
2020
A Life Less Ordinary
O'Reilly
1997
Song to Song
Miranda
2017
Broadcast News
Jane Craig
1987
Incredibles 3
Helen Parr / Elastigirl (voice)
2028
Bonnie & Clyde
Emma Parker
2013
Lost Souls
Thanks
2000
Always
Dorinda Durston
1989
Eco-Challenge
1995
Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen
(archive footage)
2012
The Big White
Margaret Barnell
2005
The Burning
Sophie
1981
Won't Back Down
Evelyn Riske
2012
Home for the Holidays
Claudia Larson
1995
Manglehorn
Dawn
2015
Nine Lives
Sonia
2005
Moonlight Mile
Mona Camp
2002
Strange Weather
Darcy Baylor
2016
Spielberg
Self
2017
Bergman: A Year in a Life
Self
2018
Inside the Actors Studio
Self
1994
Things You Can Tell Just by Looking at Her
Rebecca Waynon (segment "Fantasies About Rebecca")
2000
Living Out Loud
Judith Moore
1998
When Billie Beat Bobby
Billie Jean King
2001When Billie Beat Bobby
Co-Executive Producer
2001
Miss Firecracker
Carnelle Scott
1989
End of the Line
Charlotte
1987
The Positively True Adventures of the Alleged Texas Cheerleader-Murdering Mom
Wanda Holloway
1993
Trespassing Bergman
Self
2013
Once Around
Renata Bella
1991
Levity
Adele Easley
2003
Timecode
Renee Fishbine
2000
Swing Shift
Jeannie Sherman
1984
Jesus' Son
Mira
2000
The Coen Brothers
Self
2000
Harlan County War
Ruby Kincaid
2000
Paradise
Melanie Mannerheim
2013
Roe vs. Wade
Ellen Russell / Jane Doe
1989
My Darling Vivian
Self (archive footage)
2020
A Gathering of Old Men
Candy Marshall
1987
Searching for Debra Winger
Self
2002
Breakable You
Eleanor Weller
2017
With Intent to Kill
Wynn Nolen
1984
Down from the Mountain
Self
2001
Woman Wanted
Emma Riley
1999
Crazy in Love
Georgie Symonds
1992
Portraits in Dramatic Time
2011
Moonlight Mile: A Journey to Screen
Self / Mona Camp
2003
Hurricanna
2025Sangre
Cafe waitress
2006From the Bottom of the Lake
herself
2013
Inside 'The Piano'
Self
1993
Svengali
Leslie
1983
Incredicoaster | Disneyland Resort
Elastigirl (voice)
2025
Jackie
Jackie
2012
Festival in Cannes
Self (uncredited)
2001
Animal Behavior
Coral Grable
1989An Uncommon Love
Karen
1983
Rabbit Ears - The Three Billy Goats Gruff/The Three Little Pigs
Narrator (voice)
1989Crunch
Director
2026