Holly Hunter

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Recent Role:
Grace Hanadarko on Saving Grace
Gender:
Female
Birthplace:
Conyars, Georgia, USA
Birth Name:
Holly Lane Hunter
This gorgeous actress started her career in numerous New York City plays after she graduated from Carnegie Mellon University in 1980. After a couple years she moved to Los Angeles where she landed the starring role in Raising Arizona. Her career took off from there with roles in End of the Line, Broadcast News, and Miss Firecracker all released within the next two years.



In the early to mid '90s Holly began landing roles that she is probably most popular for. She starred as Ada McGrath in The Piano and Tammy Hemphill in The Firm. In 2003, she also appeared as



More Melanie Freeland in the critically acclaimed movie, Thirteen.



Throughout her career Holly has earned four Oscar nominations, winning Best Actress for The Piano. She was nominated for Best Actress in Broadcast News and Best Supporting Actress in The Firm and Thirteen. Holly also won two Emmy awards.

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    Holly Hunter is a great actress and I do not know of any other actress that could play her character on Saving Grace. She is a very talented and original actress who I think should have been acting more in movies and television shows. hide show

    Holly Hunter was born on March 20, 1958 in Conyers, GA and is the youngest of seven children. I enjoyed watching her in the movie Raising Arizona (1987).
    She is very talented and I enjoy her banter with the other cops on the show Saving Grace. I hope that this show runs for a long time.She has also produced some of the shows on Saving Grace and that makes her even more talented in my book. She done a great job playing the mother in Thirteen. This was a difficult movie for me to watch because I did not realize there was so much more peer pressure and I had a thirteen year old daughter and it made me more aware of keeping up with who her friends were as well as the parents. Holly Hunter nailed the character of Melanie Freeland and again this role was created just for her in my book.I will have to say it occasionally goes to extremes but is very convincing with great characters in the hands of three actresses all giving great performances.
    Holly Hunter was also done well with the movie Home For The Holidays with Robert Downey Jr in 1995. They also had a great director in Jodie Foster.

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