Holly Hunter

Acting

Born 1958-03-20 Conyers, Georgia, USA 101 credits Academy Awards 1 Primetime Emmy Awards 2 Golden Globe Awards 1 BAFTA Awards 1 National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Actress 1 National Board of Review Award for Best Actress 2 Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award for Best Actress 2 New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actress 2

Awards

Won 1 Academy Award

Academy Awards 1 won · 3 nominated

2004 Best Supporting Actress Nominated Thirteen
1994 Best Supporting Actress Nominated The Firm
1994 Best Actress Won The Piano
1988 Best Actress Nominated Broadcast News

Primetime Emmy Awards 2 won · 5 nominated

2009 Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series Nominated Saving Grace
2008 Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series Nominated Saving Grace
2001 Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie Nominated Things You Can Tell Just by Looking at Her
2001 Outstanding Lead Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie Nominated When Billie Beat Bobby
2000 Outstanding Lead Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie Nominated Harlan County War
1993 Outstanding Lead Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie Won The Positively True Adventures of the Alleged Texas Cheerleader-Murdering Mom
1989 Outstanding Lead Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie Won Roe vs. Wade

Golden Globe Awards 1 won · 3 nominated

2007 Best Actress – Television Series Drama Nominated Saving Grace
2003 Best Supporting Actress – Motion Picture Nominated Thirteen
1993 Best Actress – Motion Picture Drama Won The Piano
1987 Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy Nominated Broadcast News

BAFTA Awards 1 won · 2 nominated

2004 Best Actress in a Supporting Role Nominated Thirteen
1994 Best Actress in a Supporting Role Nominated The Firm
1994 Best Actress in a Leading Role Won The Piano

Screen Actors Guild Awards 5 nominated

2014 Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Miniseries or Television Movie Nominated Top of the Lake
2010 Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Drama Series Nominated Saving Grace
2009 Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Drama Series Nominated Saving Grace
2008 Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Drama Series Nominated Saving Grace
2004 Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Supporting Role Nominated Thirteen

National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Actress 1 won · 1 nominated

1993 Best Actress Won The Piano
1987 Best Actress Nominated Broadcast News

National Board of Review Award for Best Actress 2 won

1993 Best Actress Won The Piano
1987 Best Actress Won Broadcast News

Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award for Best Actress 2 won

1993 Best Actress Won The Piano
1987 Best Actress Won Broadcast News

New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actress 2 won

1993 Best Actress Won The Piano
1987 Best Actress Won Broadcast News

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Holly Hunter (born March 20, 1958) is an American actress. Born in Conyers, Georgia, she first appeared as Helen Keller in a fifth-grade play before starring in Rockdale County High School stagings of Oklahoma!, Man of La Mancha, and Fiddler on the Roof. In Pittsburgh, she graduated from Carnegie Mellon University with a degree in drama and performed in local theatre. She then moved to New York City with Frances McDormand, beginning a Broadway career. After appearing in the 1981 slasher film The Burning, she moved to Los Angeles a year later, taking on various supporting roles in theatrical and television films before starring in Raising Arizona (1987) and receiving an Academy Award nomination for her role in Broadcast News (1987). She later went on to win two Primetime Emmy Awards for her performances in the television films Roe vs. Wade (1989) and The Positively True Adventures of the Alleged Texas Cheerleader-Murdering Mom (1993). For her performance as a mute Scottish woman in The Piano (1993), she won the Academy Award for Best Actress. Later, she was nominated for two more Oscars for The Firm (1993) and Thirteen (2003). Other major accolades she has won include an AACTA Award, a Silver Bear, a BAFTA Award, a Cannes Film Festival Award and a Golden Globe. Description above from the Wikipedia article Holly Hunter, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.