Holly Hunter
Holly Hunter
Holly Hunteris an American actress and producer. For her performance as Ada McGrath in the 1993 film The Piano, she won the Academy Award for Best Actress, BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role, Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Drama, and the Cannes Best Actress Award. She was also nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress for Broadcast News, and the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for The Firmand Thirteen...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionMovie Actress
Date of Birth20 March 1958
CityConyers, GA
CountryUnited States of America
This character, I required no research, I really just brought myself, without my southern accent to the table.
Little kids would come over, and dad would give them one. He used to give them to just his own kids -- he couldn't afford to give them to all kids.
It's not the dress ... it's the way you see me.
When you spend many hours a week working with the same people - I mean television operates on really amazing hours and the gift of that is the trust that you feel and the intimacy that you feel with the people who you're working with.
I get cold really quickly, but I don't care. I like weather. I never understand why people move someplace so that they can avoid weather.
In some ways, it would be nice to stay younger, but I feel pretty happy about growing older... Personally, I don't have a lot of the regular hand-ups with getting older that some people do. I've never tried to disguise my age. People find out anyway.
I've never worked as much as I would've wanted to, and that's why I end up doing a lot of stage as well, because stage is a full course meal
I feel that I'm a spiritual person in that I feel like telling stories is a spiritual exercise and I think that it's something that we need as a culture and as humans. We need for people to put stories up in front of us that we recognize ourselves - you need to be able to see something in a finite form in order to identify with it sometimes because your life sprawls before you in this kind of way that you can't capture.
In storytelling you kind of put your nightmares up there, you put your dreams up there and people can see them better because they can stand outside of it and look at it and recognize themselves inside it. So I feel that that in and of itself is a spiritual thing.
More and more movies have been pressured to allow reporters and TV cameras to come onto the set while you're working, and I find that a real violation
The rhythm of my career has always been very static, staccato and then silent, and then a lot of work, and then none
Drama is always conflict. Conflict either comes from within or without. The thing that makes a show different is the conflict manifests itself both internally and externally.
I act probably a lot more than you see. I happen to choose movies that don't have much of a life, or I choose movies that are shown on cable instead of as features
Real quality in roles is very hard to come by. Any actor or actress will tell you that. Great movies are hard to come by. It's almost impossible to make one, and most people have to settle for making something less.