Holly Hunter
- Child actor
- Teen actor
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.
Acted in
The Electric State
2025
Mulligan
2023
as (voice)
Pixar Popcorn
2021
as Helen Parr (voice)
Mr. Mayor
2021
as Arpi
The Comey Rule
2020
as Sally Yates
My Darling Vivian
2020
as Self (archive footage)
Bless the Harts
2019
as Marjune (voice)
Bergman: A Year in a Life
2018
as Self
Incredibles 2
2018
as Helen Parr / Elastigirl (voice)
Succession
2018
as Rhea Jarrell
Here and Now
2018
as Audrey Bayer-Boatwright
Spielberg
2017
as Self
The Big Sick
2017
as Beth Gardner
Song to Song
2017
as Miranda
Breakable You
2017
as Eleanor Weller
Strange Weather
2016
as Darcy Baylor
Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice
2016
as Senator Finch
Manglehorn
2015
as Dawn
And the Oscar Goes To...
2014
as Self (archive footage)
Bonnie & Clyde
2013
as Emma Parker
Paradise
2013
as Melanie Mannerheim
From the Bottom of the Lake
2013
as herself
Trespassing Bergman
2013
as Self
Top of the Lake
2013
as GJ
Won't Back Down
2012
as Evelyn Riske
Jackie
2012
as Jackie
Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen
2012
as (archive footage)
Portraits in Dramatic Time
2011
Saving Grace
2007
as Grace Hanadarko
Sangre
2006
as Cafe waitress
The Big White
2005
as Margaret Barnell
Nine Lives
2005
as Sonia
The Incredibles
2004
as Helen Parr / Elastigirl (voice)
Little Black Book
2004
as Barb
Thirteen
2003
as Melanie Freeland
Levity
2003
as Adele Easley
Moonlight Mile: A Journey to Screen
2003
as Self / Mona Camp
Moonlight Mile
2002
as Mona Camp
Searching for Debra Winger
2002
as Self
Festival in Cannes
2001
as Self (uncredited)
Down from the Mountain
2001
as Self
When Billie Beat Bobby
2001
as Billie Jean King
The Coen Brothers
2000
as Self
O Brother, Where Art Thou?
2000
as Penny
Jesus' Son
2000
as Mira
Things You Can Tell Just by Looking at Her
2000
as Rebecca Waynon (segment "Fantasies About Rebecca")
Harlan County War
2000
as Ruby Kincaid
Timecode
2000
as Renee Fishbine
Woman Wanted
1999
as Emma Riley
Living Out Loud
1998
as Judith Moore
A Life Less Ordinary
1997
as O'Reilly
Crash
1996
as Helen Remington
Home for the Holidays
1995
as Claudia Larson
Copycat
1995
as M.J. Monahan
Eco-Challenge
1995
Intimate Portrait
1993
as Self
The Firm
1993
as Tammy Hemphill
The Piano
1993
as Ada McGrath
The Positively True Adventures of the Alleged Texas Cheerleader-Murdering Mom
1993
as Wanda Holloway
Inside 'The Piano'
1993
as Self
Crazy in Love
1992
as Georgie Symonds
Once Around
1991
as Renata Bella
Always
1989
as Dorinda Durston
Animal Behavior
1989
as Coral Grable
Rabbit Ears - The Three Billy Goats Gruff/The Three Little Pigs
1989
as Narrator (voice)
Roe vs. Wade
1989
as Ellen Russell / Jane Doe
Miss Firecracker
1989
as Carnelle Scott
Broadcast News
1987
as Jane Craig
End of the Line
1987
as Charlotte
A Gathering of Old Men
1987
as Candy Marshall
Raising Arizona
1987
as Ed
With Intent to Kill
1984
as Wynn Nolen
Swing Shift
1984
as Jeannie Sherman
Blood Simple
1984
as Helene Trend (voice) (uncredited)
An Uncommon Love
1983
as Karen
Svengali
1983
as Leslie
The Burning
1981
as Sophie
The Oscars
1953
as Self
Hurricanna
