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Holly Hunter (born March 20, 1958) is an United
States|American actress.  Born in Conyers,
Georgia, she has managed to maintain a successful
career in Hollywood, despite (or because of) her
U.S. Southern States|Southern accent. The youngest
of seven children, her father was part salesman
and part farmer. 


Her parents encouraged her to become an actress
and Hunter went to Pittsburgh to study drama at
Carnegie Mellon University, from where she
graduated in 1980. Thereafter she moved to New
York City, where she happened to meet playwright
Beth Henley in an elevator.  She was cast in
several Henley plays on Broadway theatre|Broadway,
including Crimes of the Heart and The Miss
Firecracker Festival.

Hunter's first starring role in movies was in
1987, when she appeared in Raising Arizona.  That
same year she starred in Broadcast News, and was
nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress. 
In 1993, she won the Oscar for The Piano; the same
year she was also nominated for the Academy Award
for Best Supporting Actress for The Firm.  A year
later, she was nominated for the Best Supporting
Actress BAFTA award for her role in The Firm,
starring Tom Cruise and Gene Hackman.  Hunter was
also nominated for the Academy Award for Best
Supporting Actress in 2004 for Catherine
Hardwicke's Thirteen (movie).  

Hunter has also appeared in several television
films, and has earned two Emmy 's.

She was married to cinematographer Janusz Kaminski
(Polish); born on June 27, 1959; married on May
20, 1995; divorced on December 21, 2001.

The 47-year-old actress is in a relationship with
British actor Gordon MacDonald, who co-starred in
a West End production of By the Bog of Cats with
her. On 3 August 2005 it was confirmed the couple
are expecting twins, due in the northern winter of
2005/2006. They will be the first children for
both Hunter and MacDonald. 



==Selected Filmography==
*The Incredibles (2004 in film|2004)
*Little Black Book (2004 in film|2004)
*Thirteen (movie)|Thirteen (2003 in film|2003)
*Levity (2003 in film|2003)
*Moonlight Mile (2002 in film|2002)
*O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000 in film|2000)
*Jesus' Son (1999 in film|1999)
*A Life Less Ordinary (1997 in film|1997)
*Crash (1996 film)|Crash (1996 in film|1996)
*The Firm (movie)|The Firm (1993 in film|1993)
*The Piano (1993 in film|1993)
*Always (film)|Always (1989 in film|1989)
*Broadcast News (film)|Broadcast News (1987 in
film|1987)
*Raising Arizona (1987 in film|1987)
*Blood Simple (1984 in film|1984) (voice
actor|voice) (uncredited)
*Svengali (1983 in film|1983) (television
movie|TV)

== External links ==
*imdb name | id=0000456 | name=Holly Hunter
*nndb name | id = 566/000023497 | name = Holly
Hunter