Holly Hunter
Acting • Born 1958-03-20
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.
Filmography
99 credits
O Brother, Where Art Thou?
Movie • 2000
Penny
Crash
Movie • 1996
Helen Remington
Raising Arizona
Movie • 1987
Ed
The Piano
Movie • 1993
Ada McGrath
Copycat
Movie • 1995
M.J. Monahan
Things You Can Tell Just by Looking at Her
Movie • 2000
Rebecca Waynon (segment "Fantasies About Rebecca")
Thirteen
Movie • 2003
Melanie
Always
Movie • 1989
Dorinda Durston
Moonlight Mile
Movie • 2002
Mona Camp
The Burning
Movie • 1981
Sophie
A Life Less Ordinary
Movie • 1997
O'Reilly
Jesus' Son
Movie • 2000
Mira
Hurricanna
Movie • 2025
Home for the Holidays
Movie • 1995
Claudia Larson
Broadcast News
Movie • 1987
Jane Craig
The Big White
Movie • 2005
Margaret Barnell
Timecode
Movie • 2000
Renee Fishbine
Little Black Book
Movie • 2004
Barb
The Firm
Movie • 1993
Tammy Hemphill
Nine Lives
Movie • 2005
Sonia
Once Around
Movie • 1991
Renata Bella
Swing Shift
Movie • 1984
Jeannie Sherman
Living Out Loud
Movie • 1998
Judith Moore
The Positively True Adventures of the Alleged Texas Cheerleader-Murdering Mom
Movie • 1993
Wanda Holloway
End of the Line
Movie • 1987
Charlotte
Woman Wanted
Movie • 1999
Emma Riley
When Billie Beat Bobby
Movie • 2001
Billie Jean King
A Gathering of Old Men
Movie • 1987
Candy Marshall
Jackie
Movie • 2012
Jackie
Crazy in Love
Movie • 1992
Georgie Symonds
Paradise
Movie • 2013
Melanie Mannerheim
Harlan County War
Movie • 2000
Ruby Kincaid
Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen
Movie • 2012
(archive footage)
Manglehorn
Movie • 2015
Dawn
Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice
Movie • 2016
Senator Finch
Roe vs. Wade
Movie • 1989
Ellen Russell / Jane Doe
Miss Firecracker
Movie • 1989
Carnelle Scott
Levity
Movie • 2003
Adele Easley
Sangre
Movie • 2006
Cafe waitress
From the Bottom of the Lake
Movie • 2013
herself
Blood Simple
Movie • 1985
Helene Trend (voice) (uncredited)
Won't Back Down
Movie • 2012
Evelyn Riske
Strange Weather
Movie • 2016
Darcy Baylor
The Incredibles
Movie • 2004
Helen Parr / Elastigirl (voice)
Breakable You
Movie • 2017
Eleanor Weller
Portraits in Dramatic Time
Movie • 2011
Song to Song
Movie • 2017
Miranda
The Big Sick
Movie • 2017
Beth Gardner
Rabbit Ears - The Three Billy Goats Gruff/The Three Little Pigs
Movie • 1989
Narrator (voice)
Moonlight Mile: A Journey to Screen
Movie • 2003
Self / Mona Camp
Spielberg
Movie • 2017
Self
Trespassing Bergman
Movie • 2013
Self
The Coen Brothers
Movie • 2000
Self
Bergman: A Year in a Life
Movie • 2018
Self
Incredibles 2
Movie • 2018
Helen Parr / Elastigirl (voice)
Animal Behavior
Movie • 1989
Coral Grable
Svengali
Movie • 1983
Leslie
My Darling Vivian
Movie • 2020
Self (archive footage)
Down from the Mountain
Movie • 2001
Self
Searching for Debra Winger
Movie • 2002
Self
An Uncommon Love
Movie • 1983
Karen
Festival in Cannes
Movie • 2001
Self (uncredited)
With Intent to Kill
Movie • 1984
Wynn Nolen
The Electric State
Movie • 2025
Madeline Vance
Inside 'The Piano'
Movie • 1993
Self
Incredibles 3
Movie
Helen Parr / Elastigirl (voice)
Inside the Actors Studio
TV • 1994
Self
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
TV • 2003
Self - Guest
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
TV • 1988
The View
TV • 1997
Self - Guest
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
TV • 1992
Self - Guest
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
TV • 1993
Self - Guest
Eco-Challenge
TV • 1995
Saving Grace
TV • 2007
Grace Hanadarko
Bless the Harts
TV • 2019
Marjune (voice)
The Oscars
TV • 1953
Self
Top of the Lake
TV • 2013
GJ
Bonnie & Clyde
TV • 2013
Emma Parker
Skavlan
TV • 2009
Self - Guest
Intimate Portrait
TV • 1993
Self
Late Night with Seth Meyers
TV • 2014
Self - Guest
Here and Now
TV • 2018
Audrey Bayer-Boatwright
The Rosie O'Donnell Show
TV • 1996
Self - Guest
The Frame
TV • 2013
Helen Remington
Entertainment Tonight
TV • 1981
Self
Succession
TV • 2018
Rhea Jarrell
Star Trek: Starfleet Academy
TV • 2026
Nahla Ake
Mulligan
TV • 2023
(voice)
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
TV • 2009
Self - Guest
Off Camera with Sam Jones
TV • 2014
Self
The Comey Rule
TV • 2020
Sally Yates
Late Night with Jimmy Fallon
TV • 2009
Self - Guest
Mr. Mayor
TV • 2021
Arpi
Pixar Popcorn
TV • 2021
Helen Parr (voice)
Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
TV • 2014
Self
LEGO Pixar: BrickToons
TV • 2024
Helen Parr (voice)
American Experience
TV • 1988
Mary Lincoln (voice)
Big Mouth
TV • 2017
Peep and the Big Wide World
TV • 2004
Robin (voice)