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Helen Hunt: Tom Hanks
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Helen Hunt has garnered high praised throughout her career. From her earliest work in community theater, to the New York Broadway stage, to her film and television performances, critics continuously recognize her for her outstanding performances. She was last seen on Broadway, starring opposite John Turturro, in the Yasmine Reza play, Life (x) 3. Hunt ... recently starred in HBO's acclaimed Empire Falls co-starring Ed Harris and Paul Newman; and the romantic comedy A Good Woman, with Scarlet Johansson and Tom Wilkinson. Hunt's other recent film appearances include the Woody Allen film, The Curse of the Jade Scorpion, opposite Charlize Theron, Dan Aykroyd and Allen; Robert Altman's Dr. T. and the Women, opposite Richard Gere; Pay It Forward, alongside Kevin Spacey and Haley Joel Osment; Castaway with Tom Hanks; and What Women Want with Mel Gibson.
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Helen Hunt's new millennium career comeback is up and running. Out of circulation and off screens since she won the 1997 best actress Oscar for As Good As It Gets, Hunt has come back with a vengeance with roles in no less than four movies. Two are leads and two are strong support roles, from the alcoholic mother in Pay it Forward, to the glam advertising exec in What Women Want. Hunt ... with Tom Hanks in Castaway, and disrobed for her art in Robert Altman's Dr T and the Women.
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Helen Hunt has become the Michael Caine of the year 2000. For a while at the end of last year, it seemed as if that actor was featured in every movie Hollywood released. This year, the same could be said for Hunt. The actress has already starred in Pay It Forward and Robert Altman's Dr. T and the Women, and will ... be seen in the upcoming Robert Zemeckis film Cast Away as Tom Hanks' love interest.
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Absent from the big screen since 1997, Hunt is buoyant about the year 2000 and the four distinct roles audiences will get to see the Oscar winner play. "It just felt time to take a few years off," she says. Her private life ... went through upheavals. Her marriage to long-time love Hank Azaria lasted less than a year, and the media had a field day. Hunt tries not to think of the celebrityism of her career. "I can't even say the word 'star'.
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Although her Oscar win sent Hunt straight to Hollywood’s A-list, she made her next starring appearance on stage, playing the androgynously charming Viola in an acclaimed 1998 production of William Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night. In 2000, she returned to the big screen with several long-awaited efforts, including Pay It Forward, costarring Kevin Spacey and Haley Joel Osment; What Women Want, costarring Mel Gibson; Dr. T and the Women, starring Richard Gere; and Cast Away, costarring Tom Hanks and directed by Robert Zemeckis.
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