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- Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice2016
- The Incredibles2004
- Incredibles 22018
- O Brother, Where Art Thou?2000
- Thirteen2003
- The Piano1994
- Crash1997
- The Big Sick2017
- Always1989
Top of the Lake2013- Song to Song2017
- Saving Grace2007
- Home for the Holidays1995
- Moonlight Mile2002
- Swing Shift1984
- Copycat1995
- American Experience1988
Browse the list of movies and TV shows featuring Holly Hunter, an American actor known for The Piano, Broadcast News, and Saving Grace. See her credits, awards, and upcoming projects.
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Holly Hunter (born March 20, 1958) is an American actress. Hunter won the Academy Award for Best Actress for her performance as Ada McGrath in the 1993 drama film The Piano. She earned three additional Academy Award nominations for Broadcast News (1987), The Firm (1993), and Thirteen (2003).
- BROADCAST NEWS (1987) Director and writer: James L. Brooks. Starring William Hurt, Albert Brooks, Jack Nicholson. James L. Brooks had planned to cast his “Terms of Endearment” star Debra Winger in the lead role of this film set in the world of television news (a topic he was well acquainted with from his producing of “The Mary Tyler Moore Show”) but her pregnancy forced her to drop out at the last minute.
- THE PIANO (1993) Director and writer: Jane Campion. Starring Harvey Keitel, Anna Paquin, Sam Neill. Hunter won just about every award they give including a Best Actress Oscar for this film about a woman who is placed in an arranged marriage to a wealthy New Zealand plantation owner but begins to fall in love with a field hand on the estate.
- RAISING ARIZONA (1987) Director: Joel Coen. Writers: Joel and Ethan Coen. Starring Nicolas Cage, John Goodman, Frances McDormand. The year 1987 was a landmark year for Hunter.
- THIRTEEN (2003) Director: Catherine Hardwicke. Writers: Catherine Hardwicke, Nikki Reed. Starring Evan Rachel Wood, Nikki Reed. Hunter did receive her fourth Oscar nomination (as Best Supporting Actress) as a mother trying to deal with her rebellious daughter who starts to dabble in sex, drugs and crime after she becomes friends with the wrong crowd.
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- 'The Piano' (1993) Director: Jane Campion. In 1851, Ada McGrath (Hunter) arrives at the shores of New Zealand with her cherished piano and young daughter, Flora (Anna Paquin), to meet Ada's new husband (Sam Neill) in an arranged marriage.
- 'Broadcast News' (1987) Director: James L. Brooks. Power walking onto the screen of audiences everywhere, Hunter appears in James L. Brooks' 1987 newsroom classic, Broadcast News, as Jane Craig, a confident, capable producer with lofty goals.
- 'Raising Arizona' (1987) Director: Joel Coen. Raising Arizona marked Hunter's first starring opportunity as Ed, a straight-laced police officer beguiled by the oft-incarcerated H.I.
- 'The Big Sick' (2017) Director: Michael Showalter. Kumail Nanjiani and his wife, Emily V. Gordon, wrote the unbelievably true story of their courtship in The Big Sick.
Find out the filmography and biography of Holly Hunter, an American actress who won an Oscar for The Piano and starred in The Incredibles. Browse her roles in movies and TV shows from 1981 to 2021.
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A list of 16 movies featuring Holly Hunter, an American actress known for her roles in The Piano, Crash, and The Firm. The list includes ratings, genres, directors, and co-stars for each movie.
