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Ben Affleck, Lauren Bacall, Matt Damon, Melanie Griffith, Holly Hunter, George Lucas, Kelly Preston and Charlize Theron will be presenters at Sunday's Golden Globe Awards. Yahoo News; Inside Daily Vareity, January 21, 1999.
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Petite, fiery, and altogether confident, Holly Hunter was an Academy Award-winning actress and producer who rose to prominence in the late 1980s and early 1990s with a string of roles in challenging and critically acclaimed films. She was best known as the mute pianist who carries out a torrid affair with Harvey Keitel’s rough-hewn New Zealander in “The Piano†– for which she won the Oscar in 1993 – but her turns in such films as “Raising Arizona†(1987), “Broadcast News†(1987), “thirteen†(2003) and “The Incredibles†(2004) ... earned her a legion of admirers.
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One of the most versatile and charismatic actresses that Hollywood has to offer, Holly Hunter has made a name for herself with smart, strong portrayals of dependably eccentric women. Born March 20, 1958, in Conyers, GA, Hunter was raised on a farm as the youngest of seven children. With the encouragement of her parents, she began acting at a young age, landing her first starring role as Helen Keller in a fifth grade play. Hunter went on to receive theatrical training at Pittsburgh's Carnegie Mellon University, after which she moved to New York to pursue her acting career. Following her off-Broadway debut in 1981, the fledgling actress enjoyed a serendipitous twist of fate in the form of being stuck in a stalled elevator with playwright Beth Henley. The chance meeting led to a collaboration between the two women, first with the stage production of The Miss Firecracker Contest and then with Hunter's 1982 Broadway debut, Crimes of the Heart.
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In 1987 Holly Hunter appeared in Raising Arizona (with Nicolas Cage) and Broadcast News, and was suddenly a movie star. Proving she could do more than rapid-fire dialogue and comedy, Hunter nabbed the 1994 Oscar for her performance in The Piano (1993, directed by Jane Campion). Since then she has appeared in a variety of movies, including Copycat (1995, with Sigourney Weaver), Crash (1996, based on the novel by J. G. Ballard), Living Out Loud (1998) and as George Clooney's wife in O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000). She earned her fourth Oscar nomination in 2004 for her supporting performance in Thirteen (2003), then switched gears to be the voice of the mom (Helen/Elastigirl) in the animated feature The Incredibles (2004). Hunter has ... worked in televsion, notably as tennis great Billie Jean King in When Billie Beat Bobby (2001) and as the star of the 2007 series Grace.
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Actress Holly Hunter is pregnant with twins, according to a report from E! Online. Their source estimates that she is about four months pregnant, and due to deliver in December. The babies' father is her boyfriend, British actor Gordon MacDonald. The forty-seven-year-old star won an Oscan in 1993 for "The Piano".
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In 1993 Hunter found herself nominated for two Academy Awards. Her performance in The Firm, as a secretary in Memphis, Tennessee, earned a nomination for Best Supporting Actress. But it was for her portrayal of Ada,
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