Helen Elizabeth Hunt (born June 15, 1963) is an American actress, film director, and screenwriter. She starred in the sitcom,
Mad About You, for seven years before being cast in the 1997 romantic comedy film,
As Good as It Gets for which she won the Academy Award for Best Actress. Some of her other notable films include
Twister,
Cast Away,
What Women Want,
Pay It Forward,
Soul Surfer and
The Sessions. She made her directorial debut in 2007 with
Then She Found Me. She has won four Emmy awards, four Golden Globe awards, two Screen Actors Guild awards, and an Oscar.
Early life
Hunt was born in Culver City, California. Her mother, Jane Elizabeth (née Novis), worked as a photographer, and her father, Gordon E. Hunt, is a film director and acting coach.
Her uncle, Peter H. Hunt, is also a director. Her Iowa-born maternal grandmother, Dorothy (Anderson) Fries, was a voice coach.
[http://articles.latimes.com/1991-09-21/entertainment/ca-2224_1_helen-hunt] Hunt's paternal grandmother was from a German Jewish family, while Hunt's other grandparents were of English descent (her maternal grandfather was born in England).
[http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~battle/celeb/hunt.htm][ ][Nick Johnstone, "How Helen Hunt did God", The Jewish Chronicle, August 28, 2008.]When she was three, Hunt's family moved to New York City, where her father directed theatre (Hunt attended plays as a child several times a week).
[Stated on Inside the Actors Studio, 2001] Hunt studied ballet, and attended UCLA.
[ Helen Hunt Biography ? Yahoo! Movies]
Career
Hunt began working as a child actress in the 1970s.[ Her early roles included an appearance as Murray Slaughter's daughter on The Mary Tyler Moore Show, alongside Lindsay Wagner in an episode of The Bionic Woman, an appearance in an episode of Ark II called Omega, and a regular role in the television series The Swiss Family Robinson.][ She appeared as a marijuana-smoking classmate on an episode of The Facts of Life. Hunt also played a young woman who, while on PCP, jumps out of a second-storey window, in a 1982 after school special called Desperate Lives (a scene which she mocked during a Saturday Night Live monologue in 1994).][ Helen Hunt's Monologue] That same year, Hunt was cast on the ABC sitcom It Takes Two, which lasted a single season. In the mid-1980s, she had a recurring role on St. Elsewhere as Clancy Williams, the girlfriend of Dr. Jack "Boomer" Morrison. She played Jennie in the television movie On His Own, co-starring Mickey Rooney. She also starred in the 1985 film Girls Just Wanna Have Fun, with Sarah Jessica Parker and Shannen Doherty.thumb|Hunt at the Academy Awards, March 23, 1998]
In the 1990s, after playing the lead female role in the short-lived My Life and Times, Hunt starred in the series Mad About You, winning Emmy Awards for her performances in 1996, 1997, 1998, and 1999.[ In 1998, Hunt won an Academy Award for Best Actress for her portrayal of Carol Connelly in the movie As Good as It Gets; the character is a waitress and single mother who finds herself falling in love with Melvin Udall, an obsessive-compulsive romance novelist played by Jack Nicholson.][ After winning the Academy Award, she took time off from movie work to play Viola in Shakespeare's Twelfth Night, at Lincoln Center in New York.]
In 2000, Hunt starred in four films: Dr. T & the Women, with Richard Gere; Pay It Forward, with Kevin Spacey and Haley Joel Osment; What Women Want, with Mel Gibson; and Cast Away, with Tom Hanks.[ In 2003, she returned to Broadway in Yasmina Reza's Life x 3.]
Hunt directed several episodes of Mad About You, including the series finale. Her big-screen directorial debut came with the film Then She Found Me, in which she also starred, with Colin Firth and Matthew Broderick.
She currently owns a production company with Connie Tavel, Hunt/Tavel Productions under Sony Pictures Entertainment.
Personal life
Hunt was briefly married to actor Hank Azaria (July 17, 1999 ? December 18, 2000).[ Helen Hunt: It's a Girl!, a May 2004 E! Online article ()]
Awards
Hunt has been recognized extensively in her career. In 1998 she won a Golden Globe Award, an Academy Award and an Emmy Award in the same year. Hunt was nominated for an Emmy Award for lead actress in a comedy seven years in a row, from 1993 through 1999, winning in the last four years.[ Academy of Television Arts & Sciences. Emmys.com.]
Filmography
Television
{| class="wikitable sortable"|-! Year !! Title !! Role !! class="unsortable"| Notes|-| 1974| Amy Prentiss| Jill Prentiss||-| 1975| | Helga||-| 1976| Ark II| Diana||-| 1977| | Kerry Gerardi||-| 1978| | Princess Aura||-| 1980-81| Knots Landing| Betsy / Brenda||-| 1982| It Takes Two| Lisa Quinn||-| 1984?86| St. Elsewhere| Clancy Williams||-| 1985| Highway To Heaven| Lizzy MacGill||-| 1991| My Life and Times| Rebecca Miller||-| 1992?99| Mad About You| Jamie Stemple Buchman| |Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress - Comedy Series |Golden Globe Award for Best Actress - Television Series Musical or Comedy |People's Choice Award for Favorite Female Television Performer |Q Award for Best Actress in a Quality Comedy Series|Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Comedy Series |Nominated ? American Comedy Award for Funniest Female Performer in a TV Series|Nominated ? Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress - Comedy Series |Nominated ? Golden Globe Award for Best Actress - Television Series Musical or Comedy |Nominated ? Q Award for Best Actress in a Quality Comedy Series |Nominated ? Satellite Award for Best Actress ? Television Series Musical or Comedy |Nominated ? Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Comedy Series |Nominated ? Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series |Nominated ? TV Guide Award for Favorite Actress in a Comedy}}|-| 1995| Friends| Jamie Buchman||-| 2005| Empire Falls| Janine Roby| Gracie Allen Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress ? Drama Special|-| 2012| Californication|| Director ? season five, episode nine|-| 2013| Revenge|| Director ? season two, episode fifteen|}
Film
{| class="wikitable sortable"|-! Year !! Title !! Role !! class="unsortable"| Notes|-| 1973| Pioneer Woman| Sarah Sargeant| Television film|-| 1975| Death Scream| Teila Rodriguez| Television film|-| 1975| All Together Now| Susan Lindsay| Television film|-| 1976| Having Babies| Sharon McNamara| Television film|-| 1977| | Kristina Matchett| Television film|-| 1977| Rollercoaster| Tracy Calder||-| 1979| Transplant| Janice Hurley| Television film|-| 1981| Child Bride of Short Creek| Naomi| Television film|-| 1981| CBS Afternoon Playhouse| Phoebe| I Think I'm Having a Baby|-| 1981| || Television film|-| 1981| Angel Dusted| Lizzie Eaton| Television film|-| 1981| | Kathy Miller| Television film|-| 1982| Desperate Lives| Sandy Cameron| Television film|-| 1983| On His Own| Jenny Wells| Television film|-| 1983| Quarterback Princess| Tami Maida| Television film|-| 1983| Choices of the Heart| Cathy| Television film|-| 1984| Sweet Revenge| Debbie Markham| Television film|-| 1985| Trancers| Leena||-| 1985| Waiting to Act| Tracy||-| 1985| Girls Just Want to Have Fun| Lynne Stone||-| 1986| | Mary| voice|-| 1986| Peggy Sue Got Married| Beth Bodell||-| 1987| Project X| Teri||-| 1988| Shooter| Tracey| Television film|-| 1988| Miles from Home| Jennifer||-| 1988| Stealing Home| Hope Wyatt (adult and pregnant)||-| 1988| | Princess Henrietta||-| 1989| Incident at Dark River| Jesse McCandless| Television film|-| 1989| Next of Kin| Jessie Gates||-| 1991|
The Pamela Wojas Smart Story| Pamela Smart| Television film|-| 1991| Trancers II| Lena Deth||-| 1991| Into the Badlands| Blossom| Television film|-| 1992| | Anna||-| 1992| Only You| Clare Enfield||-| 1992| Mr. Saturday Night| Annie Wells||-| 1992| Bob Roberts| Rose Pondell||-| 1992| Trancers III| Lena||-| 1993| Sexual Healing| Rene||-| 1993| In the Company of Darkness| Gina Pulasky| Television film|-| 1995| Kiss of Death| Bev Kilmartin||-| 1996| Twister| Dr. Jo Harding (Adult)| |-| 1997| As Good as It Gets| Carol Connelly| |-| 1998| Twelfth Night| Viola| Television film|-| 2000| Dr. T & the Women| Bree Davis||-| 2000| What Women Want| Darcy McGuire| Blockbuster Entertainment Award for Favorite Actress ? Comedy/Romance|-| 2000| Pay It Forward| Arlene McKinney| Nominated ? Blockbuster Entertainment Award for Favorite Actress ? Drama/Romance|-| 2000| Cast Away| Kelly Frears| }}|-| 2001| One Night at McCool's| Truck driver| scenes deleted|-| 2001| | Betty Ann Fitzgerald||-| 2004| | Mrs. Erlynne||-| 2006| Bobby| Samantha Stevens| |-| 2007| Then She Found Me| April Epner| |-| 2011| Every Day| Jeannie||-| 2011| Soul Surfer| Cheri Hamilton||-| 2011| Jock of the Bushveld aka Jock the Hero Dog|Jess|voice|-| 2012| The Sessions| Cheryl Cohen-Greene| Independent Spirit Award for Best Supporting Female
Nevada Film Critics Society Award for Best Actress
San Francisco Film Critics Circle Award for Best Supporting Actress
St. Louis Gateway Film Critics Association Award for Best Supporting Actress
Sundance Film Festival - U.S. Dramatic Special Jury Prize for Ensemble Acting
Nominated ? Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress
Nominated ? BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role
Nominated ? Broadcast Film Critics Association Award for Best Supporting Actress
Nominated ? Chicago Film Critics Association Award for Best Actress
Nominated ? Chlotrudis Award for Best Actress
Nominated ? Dallas-Fort Worth Film Critics Association Award for Best Supporting Actress
Nominated ? Detroit Film Critics Society Award for Best Supporting Actress
Nominated ? Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress ? Motion Picture
Nominated ? Houston Film Critics Society for Best Supporting Actress
Nominated ? London Film Critics Circle Award for Actress of the Year
Nominated ? Online Film Critics Society Award for Best Supporting Actress
Nominated ? Phoenix Film Critics Society Award for Best Supporting Actress
Nominated ? San Diego Film Critics Society Award for Best Actress
Nominated ? Satellite Award for Best Supporting Actress
Nominated ? Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Supporting Role
Nominated ? Washington D.C. Area Film Critics Association Award for Best Supporting Actress|}2013"Decoding Annie ParkerDecoding Annie Parker"Dr. Mary-Claire King
References
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