Helen Hunt

Helen Elizabeth Hunt ( born June 15, 1963 in Los Angeles, California) is an American actress. In 1998 she does not get any better for the role in the Oscar Award for Best Actress. With Then She Found Me 2007 she gave her debut as a film director.

Biography

Childhood

Her parents, the renowned director Gordon Hunt and his wife, Jane, moved to New York in 1966, but only six years later returned to Los Angeles. Got her first role Helen Hunt in the TV movie Pioneer Woman on the side of William Shatner. In the following years she starred in several television productions.

The first successes

The first major movie role was in 1985 in the teen comedy Girls Just Want to Have Fun on the side of Sarah Jessica Parker. This was followed by roles in Peggy Sue Got Married and 1987 Project X with Matthew Broderick. The late 1980s and early 1990s, Hunt was again for several television productions for the camera. For her performance in the film Water Dance (1992 ) by three paraplegics, she received rave reviews. Actually, she had not want occurring in television series, but the supply of Paul Reiser, Mad in the series after you ( Mad about you) to take over the role of his wife, let them reconsider their position. The surprising for many success of the series led to numerous nominations and awards, among others to several American Comedy Awards, several Emmys and three Golden Globes for Helen Hunt as Best Series Actress. In around 30 Episodes her father directed, later she wrote herself even with the screenplay and sat in the director's chair.

Movie career

In 1996, she was the cinema audience to become a household name worldwide. She took over on the side of Bill Paxton, the role of Dr. JoAnne ' Jo ' Thornton- Harding in the movie Twister, which was one of the most successful films of that year cinema. Only one year later, the next big gig - as a single waitress Carol next to Jack Nicholson in the comedy Good as It Gets ( As Good as It Gets ). The two have been awarded both the Golden Globes and at the Oscars for Best Actor.

After this career peak Hunt was seen as a friend of Tom Hanks in the movie Lost. This was followed by films like Dr. T and the Women on the side of Richard Gere or Mel Gibson in the movie What Women Want. After 2001 turned The Curse of the Jade Scorpion (The Curse of the Jade Scorpion ), she joined in 2004 again as an actress in appearance. In 2005 she participated in the TV production with Empire Falls, where she was standing next to Ed Harris, Philip Seymour Hoffman and Robin Wright Penn in front of the camera. It was followed by other roles in various theater productions.

Private

Helen Hunt was married from 1999 to 2000 with actor Hank Azaria. Since 2000 she is with producer Matthew Carnahan ( b. 1961 ) allied with whom she a daughter (* 2004).

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Blockbuster Entertainment Award

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