| Holly Hunter  Born: 20-Mar-1958
Birthplace: Conyers, GA
Gender: Female
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Actor Nationality: United States
Executive summary: The Piano Holly Hunter is a tart but likable American actress, best known for making wacky women sympathetic on the screen. In her most famous roles, she played a cop in love with ex-con Nicolas Cage in Raising Arizona, a neurotic news executive in Broadcast News, a pianist waiting to be played in Jane Campion's The Piano, and a woman aroused by car accidents in David Cronenberg's Crash.
She was raised on a farm in Georgia, the youngest of six children. She studied drama at Pittsburgh's Carnegie Mellon University, and shared an apartment with Frances McDormand while both were struggling actresses in New York. When McDormand made Joel and Ethan Coen's Blood Simple, Hunter snagged an off-screen part as a voice on an answering machine. The Coens later wrote Raising Arizona with Hunter in mind, and she co-starred in their O Brother, Where Art Thou?
Father: Charles Edwin Hunter (sporting goods salesman, farmer)
Mother: Opal Marguerite Catledge Hunter (housewife)
Boyfriend: Arliss Howard (actor, b. 18-Oct-1954, dated in early 1990s)
Husband: Janusz Kaminski (cinematographer, b. 1959, m. 20-May-1995, div. 21-Dec-2001)
University: BFA Drama, Carnegie Mellon University (1980)
4-H Club
NARAL
Oscar for Best Actress 1994 for The Piano
Golden Globe 1994 for The Piano
Emmy 1989 for Roe vs. Wade
Emmy 1993 for The Positively True Adventures of the Alleged Texas Cheerleader-Murdering Mom
Risk Factors: Smoking
TELEVISION
Saving Grace Grace Hanadarko (2007-)
FILMOGRAPHY AS ACTOR
The Big White (13-May-2005)
Nine Lives (24-Jan-2005)
The Incredibles (27-Oct-2004) [VOICE]
Little Black Book (06-Aug-2004)
Thirteen (17-Jan-2003)
Levity (16-Jan-2003)
Moonlight Mile (9-Sep-2002)
Searching for Debra Winger (16-May-2002) Herself
When Billie Beat Bobby (16-Apr-2001)
O Brother, Where Art Thou? (22-Dec-2000)
Harlan County War (4-Jun-2000)
Timecode (22-Mar-2000)
Things You Can Tell Just by Looking at Her (22-Jan-2000)
Women Wanted (2000)
Jesus' Son (5-Sep-1999)
Living Out Loud (15-Sep-1998)
A Life Less Ordinary (24-Oct-1997)
Crash (17-May-1996)
Home for the Holidays (3-Nov-1995)
Copycat (27-Oct-1995)
The Firm (30-Jun-1993)
The Piano (19-May-1993)
The Positively True Adventures of the Alleged Texas Cheerleader-Murdering Mom (10-Apr-1993)
Crazy in Love (10-Aug-1992)
Once Around (18-Jan-1991)
Always (22-Dec-1989)
Miss Firecracker (28-Apr-1989)
Broadcast News (16-Dec-1987)
End of the Line (28-Aug-1987)
A Gathering of Old Men (10-May-1987)
Raising Arizona (6-Mar-1987)
Swing Shift (13-Apr-1984)
The Burning (8-May-1981)
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