![]() ![]() Hunter went on to the screen adaptation of Henley's Miss Firecracker Steven Spielberg's Always, a romantic drama with Richard Dreyfuss and the made-for-TV 1989 docudrama Roe vs. More film and television work followed until 1987, when she earned a starring role in the Coens' Raising Arizona and was nominated for an Academy Award for her performance in Broadcast News, after which Hunter became a critically acclaimed star. That year, she had her first collaboration with the writing-directing-producing team of brothers Ethan Coen and Joel Coen, in Blood Simple, making an uncredited appearance as a voice on an answering-machine recording. After moving to Los Angeles in 1982, Hunter appeared in TV movies before being cast in a supporting role in 1984's Swing Shift. Hunter made her film debut in the 1981 slasher movie The Burning. on the south side of the street," Hunter recalled in an interview. It was on 49th Street between Broadway and Eighth. A chance encounter with playwright Beth Henley, when the two were trapped alone in an elevator, led to Hunter's being cast in Henley's plays Crimes of the Heart (succeeding Mary Beth Hurt on Broadway), and Off-Broadway's The Miss Firecracker Contest. Hunter moved to New York City and roomed with fellow actress Frances McDormand, living in the Bronx "at the end of the D train, just off 205th Street, on Bainbridge Avenue and Hull Avenue". Hunter earned a degree in drama from Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh and for a while performed in local theater, playing ingenue roles at City Theater, then named the City Players. She began acting at Rockdale County High School in the early 1970s, performing in local productions of Oklahoma, Man of La Mancha, and Fiddler on the Roof. The condition sometimes leads to complications at work, and some movie scenes have to be altered from the script for her to use her right ear. She is unable to hear with her left ear due to a childhood case of the mumps. Her parents encouraged her talent at an early age, and her first acting part was as Helen Keller in a fifth-grade play. Hunter was born in Conyers, Georgia, the daughter of Marguerite "Dee Dee" ( née Catledge), a homemaker, and Charles Edwin Hunter, a part-time sporting goods company representative and farmer with a 250 acre farm. 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) and 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. She also starred in the TNT drama series Saving Grace (2007–2010). 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 for the television films Roe vs. She earned three additional Academy Award nominations for Broadcast News (1987), The Firm (1993), and Thirteen (2003). Hunter won the Academy Award for Best Actress for her performance as Ada McGrath in the 1993 drama film The Piano. ![]() Holly Patricia Hunter (born March 20, 1958) is an American actress. ![]()
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