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Browse the complete list of movies and TV shows featuring Holly Hunter, the Oscar-winning actress known for The Piano, Broadcast News, and The Big Sick. Learn more about her life, career, awards, and trivia on IMDb.
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Browse the full list of movies and TV shows featuring Holly Hunter, the Oscar-winning actor known for The Piano, Broadcast News, and Saving Grace. Find where to watch her latest projects, such as Mr. Mayor, Succession, and The Incredibles.
She won two Primetime Emmy Awards for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Limited Series or Movie for the television films Roe vs. Wade (1989) and The Positively True Adventures of the Alleged Texas Cheerleader-Murdering Mom (1993). She also starred in the TNT drama series Saving Grace (2007–2010).
Browse the list of titles featuring Holly Hunter as an actor, director, or producer, sorted by year of release. Find out her upcoming projects, such as Hurricanna, Monogamy, and Mr. Mayor, as well as her past roles in The Piano, Broadcast News, and more.
- 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.
Feb 23, 2024 · 10 'The Positively True Adventures of the Alleged Texas Cheerleader-Murdering Mom' (1993) Director: Michael Ritchie. image via HBO. When Wanda Holloway was a child in Texas, her parents forbade her...
16 titles. 1. Raising Arizona (1987) PG-13 | 94 min | Comedy, Crime. 7.3. Rate. 69 Metascore. When a childless couple--an ex-con and an ex-cop--decide to help themselves to one of another family's quintuplets, their lives become more complicated than they anticipated.
