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Lydia Susanna Hunt, better known by her stage name Linda Hunt, is an American actress. After making her film debut playing Mrs. Oxheart in Popeye (1980), Hunt's breakthrough came playing the male character Billy Kwan in The Year of Living Dangerously (1982), for which she won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress, becoming the first person to win an Oscar portraying a character of the opposite sex.
Birth Name
Lydia Susanna Hunter
Born
Monday, 02 April 1945
Actress Filmography
| Title | Character | Year |
|---|
| The Price of Duty | Self - Academy Awards Presenter | 2018 |
| Solo: A Star Wars Story | Lady Proxima (voice) / Lady Proxima | 2018 |
| The Relationtrip | Dr. Lipschweiss | 2018 |
| Scorpion | Hetty Lange | 2014 |
| And the Oscar Goes to... | Self / Self (archive footage) | 2014 |
| NCIS: Los Angeles | Hetty Lange / Henrietta "Hetty" Lange | 2009 |
| The Crooked Eye | Sharon's Narrator | 2009 |
| The Singing Revolution | Narrator / Self - Narrator | 2007 |
| Stranger Than Fiction | Dr. Mittag-Leffler | 2006 |
| The Unit | Dr. Eudora Hobbs | 2006 |
Actress Filmography
| Title | Character | Year |
|---|
| The Price of Duty | Self - Academy Awards Presenter | 2018 |
| Solo: A Star Wars Story | Lady Proxima (voice) / Lady Proxima | 2018 |
| The Relationtrip | Dr. Lipschweiss | 2018 |
| Scorpion | Hetty Lange | 2014 |
| And the Oscar Goes to... | Self / Self (archive footage) | 2014 |
| NCIS: Los Angeles | Hetty Lange / Henrietta "Hetty" Lange | 2009 |
| The Crooked Eye | Sharon's Narrator | 2009 |
| The Singing Revolution | Narrator / Self - Narrator | 2007 |
| Stranger Than Fiction | Dr. Mittag-Leffler | 2006 |
| The Unit | Dr. Eudora Hobbs | 2006 |
| Yours, Mine & Ours | Mrs. Munion | 2005 |
| California and the American Dream | Narrator | 2005 |
| Auschwitz: Inside the Nazi State | Narrator in U.S. version | 2005 |
| Natural Heroes | Narrator | 2004 |
| Reporting America at War | Narrator | 2003 |
| Carnivàle | Management | 2003 |
| Nip/Tuck | Voice of Authority | 2003 |
| Before We Ruled the Earth | Narrator | 2003 |
| Without a Trace | Dr. Clare Bryson | 2002 |
| Dragonfly | Sister Madeline | 2002 |
| Who Owns the Past? | Narrator | 2000 |
| Pocahontas 2: Journey to a New World | Grandmother Willow (voice) / Grandmother Willow | 1998 |
| Out of the Past | Narrator | 1998 |
| The Practice | Judge Zoey Hiller | 1997 |
| The Living Edens | Narrator | 1997 |
| The Relic | Dr. Ann Cuthbert | 1997 |
| Titanic: Untold Stories | Narrator | 1997 |
| Amazon | Narrator (voice) / Narrator | 1997 |
| Paul Monette: The Brink of Summer's End | 1997 | |
| Eat Your Heart Out | Kathryn | 1997 |
| Third Stone from the Sun | The Varua | 1995 |
| Pocahontas | Grandmother Willow (voice) / Grandmother Willow | 1995 |
| Ready to Wear | Regina Krumm | 1994 |
| Maverick | The Magician | 1994 |
| Younger and Younger | Frances | 1993 |
| Rain Without Thunder | Atwood Society Director | 1993 |
| Space Rangers | Cmdr. Chennault | 1993 |
| Twenty Bucks | Angeline | 1993 |
| Oscar's Greatest Moments | Self | 1992 |
| Ishi: The Last Yahi | Narrator | 1992 |
| Wild by Law | Narrator | 1991 |
| If Looks Could Kill | Ilsa Grunt | 1991 |
| Kindergarten Cop | Miss Schlowski | 1990 |
| She-Devil | Hooper | 1989 |
| Nightmare Classics | Title Opening Voice / Narrator (Quoting Poe for the Nightmare Classics Intro) | 1989 |
| American Experience | Self - Narrator / Narrator | 1988 |
| Basements | Rose (segment "The Room") | 1987 |
| American Masters | Self - Narrator / Self | 1986 |
| Eleni | Katina | 1985 |
| Silverado | Stella | 1985 |
| The 57th Annual Academy Awards | Self - Presenter | 1985 |
| Dune | Shadout Mapes | 1984 |
| The Bostonians | Dr. Prance | 1984 |
| The 38th Annual Tony Awards | Self - Nominee | 1984 |
| The 56th Annual Academy Awards | Self - Winner | 1984 |
| The Year of Living Dangerously | Billy Kwan | 1982 |
| Nature | Narrator | 1982 |
| American Playhouse | Alice B. Toklas | 1982 |
| Popeye | Mrs. Oxheart / Mrs. Oxheart, his Mudder | 1980 |
| Fame | Mona | 1978 |
| Arena | Louise Brooks' Book Narrator | 1975 |
| Year | Type | Category | Won |
|---|
| 1984 | Oscar | Best Actress in a Supporting Role | Won |
| 1984 | Golden Globe | Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role in a Motion Picture | Nominated |
