Holly Hunter
Holly Patricia Hunter (born March 20, 1958) is an American actress. For her performance as Ada McGrath in the 1993 drama film The Piano, she won the Academy Award, BAFTA Award, Golden Globe Award, and Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actress. She was also nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress for Broadcast News (1987), and the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for The Firm (1993) and again for Thirteen (2003).
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| Full name at birth | Holly P. Hunter
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| Claim to fame | The Piano and The Incredibles
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| Date of birth | 20 March 1958
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| Place of birth | Conyers, Georgia USA
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| Occupation | Actress, Producer
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| Height | 5' 2" (157 cm)
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| Residence | New York City, New York, U.S.
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| Net worth | $14,000,000 USD
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| University | BFA Drama, Carnegie Mellon University (1980)
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- Replaced Debra Winger for the role of Jane Craig in _Broadcast News (1987)_ .
- In 10th grade she placed 8th nationally in a poultry-judging contest. (Interview, 11/95)
- Moved to New York in 1980 to pursue a career in acting.
- Spent a summer interning at Cortland Repertory Theatre (Cortland, New York) in 1976.
- She is one of the elite eleven actors to have been nominated for both a Supporting and Lead Acting Academy Award in the same year. The other nine are: Fay Bainter; Barry Fitzgerald; Teresa Wright; Jessica Lange; Sigourney Weaver; Al Pacino; Emma Thompson; Julianne Moore; Cate Blanchett and Jamie Foxx. Emma Thompson received her double-nomination in the same year that Hunter did.
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