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Helen Hunt

Helen Hunt
Helen Hunt
Born: Jun 15, 1963 in Culver City, California
Occupation: Actor, Director,
Active: '80s-2000s
Major Genres: Drama, Comedy
Career Highlights: Cast Away, Peggy Sue Got Married, The Waterdance
First Major Screen Credit: Pioneer Woman (1973)
31 Videos for Helen Hunt
Then She Found Me (2007) Mad About You: Season 02 (1993) Incident at Dark River (1989)
Bobby (2006) Bob Roberts (1992) Next of Kin (1989)
A Good Woman (2004) Into the Badlands (1992) Stealing Home (1988)
The Curse of the Jade Scorpion (2001) Mr. Saturday Night (1992) The Frog Prince (1988)
Cast Away (2000) Only You (1992) Project X (1987)
Dr. T & The Women (2000) Trancers III: Deth Lives (1992) Peggy Sue Got Married (1986)
Pay It Forward (2000) Murder in New Hampshire: The Pamela Smart Story (1991) Girls Just Want to Have Fun (1985)
What Women Want (2000) Queens Logic (1991) Bill: On His Own (1983)
As Good As It Gets (1997) The Waterdance (1991) Desperate Lives (1982)
Twister (1996) Trancers II: The Return of Jack Deth (1991) Rollercoaster (1977)
Kiss of Death (1995)
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Biography:

A precociously talented youngster, Helen Hunt was drawing paychecks as a television actress from the age of ten. Before she was 17, she had appeared as a regular on two series, Swiss Family Robinson (1975) and The Fitzpatricks (1977). Hunt proved she was more than just a workaday child actor with her starring performance in the fact-based 1981 TV movie The Miracle of Kathy Miller, in which she played a high school athlete who overcame severe mental and physical damage brought on by a highway accident.

While she had been appearing in films as early as Rollercoaster in 1977, Hunt was never groomed as a star player, and it is possible that her resemblance to another child actress, Jodie Foster, held her back from more important roles. After taking on her first adult role in the 1982 sitcom It Takes Two, Hunt's film assignments improved, with sizable roles in Girls Just Want to Have Fun (1985), Peggy Sue Got Married (1986), Project X (1987), Next of Kin (1989), and The Waterdance (1991).

She also gained a small measure of cult status by appearing in a brace of science fiction films, including Trancers II (1991) and Trancers III (1992). That same year, Hunt landed her longest-lasting acting assignment to date, as the co-star of the Paul Reiser-created comedy series Mad About You.

During the show's seven-year run, she won both Emmy and Golden Globe awards for her portrayal of Jamie Buchman. In 1996, Hunt had her most successful film role to date in the blockbuster Twister. The following year, she topped that when she received a Best Actress Oscar for playing a caring waitress and single mother who befriends acerbic, obsessive-compulsive author Melvin Udall (Jack Nicholson, who also won an Oscar for his performance) in As Good As It Gets.

After Mad About You ended in 1999, Hunt appeared in films by several veteran directors, including Robert Zemeckis (Cast Away [2000]), Robert Altman (Dr. T and The Women [2000]), and Woody Allen (The Curse of the Jade Scorpion [2001]). She starred in {+Life x 3} on Broadway in 2003.

~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide.