With an Academy Award® to her credit, along with four Oscar® nominations, two Emmys®, a Best Actress award from the Cannes Film Festival and countless other accolades, Holly Hunter is one of the most acclaimed actresses of her generation.

Having been nominated for her work as a driven producer in Broadcast News – a role that also earned her the New York Film Critics Circle Award, the Los Angeles Film Critics Award, The National Board of Review Award and the Berlin Film Festival Award – Hunter took home the Oscar for her stunning work as a mute Scottish widow in Jane Campion’s The Piano. For that film she also earned the Cannes Film Festival Award, The British Academy Film Award, the New York Film Critics Circle Award, the Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award, the National Board of Review Award and a Golden Globe®, all for Best Actress. That same year, Hunter garnered another Oscar nomination for her performance as the investigative secretary in The Firm. She earned her fourth nomination for the 2003 film Thirteen, in which she played a mother dealing with her daughter’s wild and rebellious behavior. Recently, Hunter was nominated for a Golden Globe and a Screen Actors Guild Award® for her performance in TNT’s SAVING GRACE. .

Hunter’s long list of film credits includes the Coen Brothers’ Raising Arizona and O Brother, Where Art Thou?; Steven Spielberg’s Always; David Cronenberg’s Crash; Danny Boyle’s A Life Less Ordinary; Jodie Foster’s Home for the Holidays; Lasse Hallström’s Once Around; and Mike Figgis’ Time Code. Other film work includes Copycat, Living Out Loud, Little Black Book, Jesus’ Son and The Big White. .

More recently, Hunter starred in the independent drama Nine Lives, provided voice work for The Incredibles and earned Emmy nominations for her work in the television projects When Billie Beat Bobby, Things You Can Tell Just by Looking at Her and Harlan County War. .

Hunter has won two Emmys in her career, for her 1989 work as Jane Roe in Roe vs. Wade and for her 1993 work in The Positively True Adventures of the Alleged Texas Cheerleader-Murdering Mom. .

An accomplished stage actress as well, Hunter starred in the 2004 London production of Marina Carr’s By the Bog of Cats. In 2001, she starred in the American premiere of the play at the San Jose Repertory Theatre in California. She made her Broadway debut in 1982 in Beth Henley’s Crimes of the Heart, which was followed by The Wake of Jamey Foster. Her other New York stage appearances include The Miss Firecracker Contest, Battery, The Person I Once Was, A Weekend Near Madison and Impossible Marriage. And in Los Angeles, she co-produced and starred in Beth Henley’s Control Freaks and produced Ray Barry’s Mother’s Son at the Met Theatre.