Helen Hunt
- Acting
- June 15, 1963 · Los Angeles, California, USA
Biography
Helen Elizabeth Hunt (born June 15, 1963) is an American actress and director. She is the recipient of numerous accolades, including an Academy Award, four Primetime Emmy Awards, and four Golden Globe Awards. Hunt rose to fame in 1992, portraying Jamie Buchman in the sitcom Mad About You which earned her three Golden Globe Awards for Best Actress and four Primetime Emmy Awards for Lead Actress. In 1997, Hunt won the Academy Award for Best Actress for starring as Carol Connelly in the romantic comedy As Good as It Gets, while her portrayal of Cheryl Cohen-Greene in The Sessions (2012), gained her a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. Her other notable films include Twister (1996), Cast Away (2000), What Women Want (2000), Pay It Forward (2000), Bobby (2006), Soul Surfer (2011), and The Miracle Season (2018). Hunt made her directorial film debut with Then She Found Me (2007), and has directed the film Ride (2014), and episodes of television series, including House of Lies, This Is Us, Feud: Bette and Joan, American Housewife, and the premiere episode of the Mad About You revival. Description above from the Wikipedia article Helen Hunt, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known for
Filmography
- In Cold Light · Claire
- No Friends · Jamie Buchman
- Meet Marry Murder · Narrator (Voice)
- How It Ends · Lucinda
- Blindspotting · Rainey
- Hacks · Winnie Landell
- Who Wants to Be a Millionaire · Self
- The Night Clerk · Ethel Bromley
- Mad About You · Jamie Buchman
- World on Fire · Nancy Campbell
- I See You · Jackie Harper
- The Kelly Clarkson Show · Self
- CinemAbility: The Art of Inclusion · Self
- United We Fan · Self
- Candy Jar · Kathy
- The Miracle Season · Kathy Bresnahan
- Splitting Up Together · Director
- I Love You, Daddy · Aura Topher
- Shots Fired · Governor Patricia Eamons
- FEUD · Director
- American Housewife · Director
- This Is Us · Director
- Life in Pieces · Director
- The Late Show with Stephen Colbert · Self
- The Late Late Show with James Corden · Self
- Ride · Jackie, Screenplay
- Decoding Annie Parker · Mary-Claire King
- The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon · Self
- Wide-Awake · The Yoga Master
- The Sessions · Cheryl
- Revenge · Director
- Jock the Hero Dog · Jess (Voice)
- Soul Surfer · Cheri Hamilton
- Who Do You Think You Are? · Self
- Every Day · Jeannie
- Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen · Self
- Then She Found Me · April Epner, Director
- Californication · Director
- Saturday Night Live in the '90s: Pop Culture Nation · Self
- Bobby · Samantha Stevens
- The Reichen Show · Self
- Empire Falls · Janine Roby
- Aliens Gone Wild · Lena (archive footage)
- A Good Woman · Mrs. Stella Erlynne
- The Ellen DeGeneres Show · Self
- Working Shakespeare
- NBC 75th Anniversary Special · Self
- The Curse of the Jade Scorpion · Betty Ann Fitzgerald
- Cast Away · Kelly Frears
- What Women Want · Darcy McGuire
- Pay It Forward · Arlene McKinney
- Dr. T & the Women · Bree Davis
- Twelfth Night · Viola & Cesario
- Chicken Little · Voice
- As Good as It Gets · Carol Connelly
- The View · Self
- Twister · Jo
- Kiss of Death · Bev Kilmartin
- Friends · Jamie Buchman
- Inside the Actors Studio · Self
- Ellen · Ellen Screen Test #2
- Late Night with Conan O'Brien · Self
- Sexual Healing · Rene
- In the Company of Darkness · Gina Pulasky
- Trancers III · Lena
- Mr. Saturday Night · Annie Wells
- Mad About You · Jamie Buchman, Director
- Bob Roberts · Rose Pondell
- The Larry Sanders Show · Helen Hunt
- The Tonight Show with Jay Leno · Self
- Only You · Clare Enfield
- The Waterdance · Anna
- Murder in New Hampshire: The Pamela Wojas Smart Story · Pamela Smart
- Trancers II · Lena Deth
- Into the Badlands · Blossom
- My Life and Times · Rebecca Miller
- Videozone: The Making of "Trancers II" · Self
- The Trials of Rosie O'Neill · Bridget Kane
- The Easter Story · Jerusalem Woman #1 (Voice)
- The Simpsons · Renee (Voice)