Helen Hunt

6.5	Listal rating

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Birth Name: Helen Elizabeth Hunt

Age: 49, born 15 June 1963

Country of origin: United States

Height: 5' 8"

Ethnicity: White / Caucasian

Relationship Status: Married

Partner: Matthew Carnahan

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About: Hunt began working as a child actress in the 1970s.[6] Her early roles included an appearance as Murray Slaughter's daughter on The Mary Tyler Moore Show, alongside Lindsay Wagner in an episode of The Bionic Woman, an appearance in an episode of Ark II called Omega, and a regular role in the television series The Swiss Family Robinson. She appeared as a marijuana-smoking classmate on an episode of The Facts of Life. Hunt also played a young woman who, while on PCP, jumps out of a second-storey w Hunt began working as a child actress in the 1970s.[6] Her early roles included an appearance as Murray Slaughter's daughter on The Mary Tyler Moore Show, alongside Lindsay Wagner in an episode of The Bionic Woman, an appearance in an episode of Ark II called Omega, and a regular role in the television series The Swiss Family Robinson. She appeared as a marijuana-smoking classmate on an episode of The Facts of Life. Hunt also played a young woman who, while on PCP, jumps out of a second-storey window, in a 1982 after school special called Desperate Lives (a scene which she mocked during a Saturday Night Live monologue in 1994).That same year, Hunt was cast on the ABC sitcom It Takes Two, which lasted a single season. In the mid-1980s, she had a recurring role on St. Elsewhere as Clancy Williams, the girlfriend of Dr. Jack "Boomer" Morrison. She played Jennie in the television movie Bill: On His Own, co-starring Mickey Rooney. She also starred in the 1985 film Girls Just Wanna Have Fun, with Sarah Jessica Parker and Shannen Doherty.

In the 1990s, after playing the lead female role in the short-lived My Life and Times, Hunt starred in the series Mad About You, winning Emmy Awards for her performances in 1996, 1997, 1998, and 1999.In 1998, Hunt won an Academy Award for Best Actress for her portrayal of Carol Connelly in the movie As Good as It Gets; the character is a waitress and single mother who finds herself falling in love with Melvin Udall, an obsessive-compulsive romance novelist played by Jack Nicholson.After winning the Academy Award, she took time off from movie work to play Viola in Shakespeare's Twelfth Night, at Lincoln Center in New York.

In 2000, Hunt starred in four films: Dr. T & the Women, with Richard Gere; Pay It Forward, with Kevin Spacey and Haley Joel Osment; What Women Want, with Mel Gibson; and Cast Away, with Tom Hanks. In 2003, she returned to Broadway in Yasmina Reza's Life x 3. In 2006, Hunt appeared in the ensemble cast film Bobby alongside Demi Moore, Anthony Hopkins, Sharon Stone and William H. Macy.

Hunt directed several episodes of Mad About You, including the series finale. Her big-screen directorial debut came with the film Then She Found Me, in which she also starred, with Colin Firth and Matthew Broderick.

She currently owns a production company with Connie Tavel, Hunt/Tavel Productions under Sony Pictures Entertainment.
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Movies

1. Cast Away (2000)

Rating:

7.1

3615 Watched

2. What Women Want (2000)

Rating:

5.9

2777 Watched

3. As Good as It Gets (1997)

Rating:

7.1

2084 Watched

4. Twister (1996)

Rating:

5.9

2161 Watched

5. Pay It Forward (2000)

Rating:

6.8

1089 Watched

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TV

1. Saturday Night Live (1975)

Rating:

7.4

871 Watched

2. Ellen: The Ellen DeGeneres Show (2003)

Rating:

6.6

572 Watched

3. Captain Planet and the Planeteers (1990)

Rating:

531 Watched

4. Late Night with Conan O'Brien (1993)

Rating:

7.2

523 Watched

5. Mad About You (1992)

Rating:

6.2

509 Watched

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TV written by

1. Mad About You (1992)

Rating:

6.2

509 Watched

TV directed by

1. Mad About You (1992)

Rating:

6.2

509 Watched

Movies directed by

1. Then She Found Me (2007)

Rating:

5.5

65 Watched

Movies written by

1. Then She Found Me (2007)

Rating:

5.5

65 Watched

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"Born: Helen Elizabeth Hunt on June 15, 1963 Place of Birth: Culver City, California Died: --------- Place of Death: ------- Though born in California, Hunt was largely raised in New York City, where she attended play performances several times a week where her father directed. She grew up in a family with a lot of connections to the performing arts, with a father, uncle, and grandmother a part of the industry as directors, acting coaches, or voice coaches. In the 70s, Hunt began her acting care"

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