Birth Name : Holly P. Hunter
Date of Birth : 20 March 1958, Conyers, Georgia, USA
Height : 5' 2" (1.57 m)
Occupation : Actress / Producer
Holly Hunter was born in Conyers, Georgia on March 20th, 1958, the daughter of Charles Edwin Hunter, a part-time sporting goods manufacturer's representative and part-time farmer with 250 acres, and Opal Marguerite Catledge, a homemaker. The youngest of seven children, Holly was encouraged by her parents to pursue her acting talent at an early age, and she landed her first gig as Helen Keller in a fifth-grade play.
In 1976 she went to Pittsburgh to pursue a degree in drama from Carnegie Mellon University. After graduating in 1980, she went to New York City, where she met playwright Beth Henley in a stalled elevator. Hunter went on to get roles in a number of Henley's southern gothic plays, including Crimes of the Heart and The Miss Firecracker Contest. In 1982 the actress went to Los Angeles. She landed her first starring role in the movies in the Coen brothers' Raising Arizona (1987), a part that is said to have been written with her in mind. She gained stardom in 1987 when she played the driven TV news producer Jane Craig in James L. Brooks' Broadcast News (1987). In 1993 she earned an Academy Award and worldwide acclaim with her performance as a mute bride to a New Zealand planter in The Piano (1993).
One word: Crash. In his controversial 1996 film, David Cronenberg cast Holly as a doctor for people who view automobile accidents as an erotic stimulant. If you can separate the situational weirdness -- and no, most people can't -- from the raw sexual energy she lets loose in that film, you know just how hot it can get around the Holly bush.
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