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