The Guardian: ‘Bored? You’re never good enough to get bored!’ Oscar-winner Helen Hunt on great roles, unruly audiences and her RSC debut
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Helen Hunt
Helen Elizabeth Hunt is an American actress. Her accolades include an Academy Award, four Primetime Emmy Awards, and four Golden Globe Awards.
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entertainment · American actress (born 1963) · actor · television actor · film actor · voice actor · stage actor · film director · also Helen Hunt, Hunt
Born 15 June 1963 · Q170574
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2026· 2 entries
Snopes.com rated the claim “Actor Helen Hunt gifted her childhood teacher, "Miss Eleanor," $3 million from her Oscar winnings after the teacher lost her job for providing extra tutoring to help Hunt with her dyslexia.” False.
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2024· 1 entry
Was featured in the HBO comedy drama Hacks, guest starring as a network executive in both Season 3 and 4
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2022· 3 entries
The Guardian: Eureka Day review – Helen Hunt is an anti-vaxxer on the attack in anti-woke satire
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The Guardian: Helen Hunt: ‘There were a couple of years I was spooked – I just became very boring’
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The Guardian: Helen Hunt to star in satire at the Old Vic about ‘a highly contagious virus’
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2020· 1 entry
Hunt appeared in the crime drama film The Night Clerk, alongside Tye Sheridan
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2019· 2 entries
The Guardian: Helen Hunt: ‘An Oscar's not a big game-changer. It's not like your worries are over’
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Hunt appeared in the BBC series World on Fire as journalist Nancy Campbell, a character inspired by real-life war correspondent Clare Hollingworth, and reprised the role of Jamie Buchman in the Mad About You revival, whi
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2017· 1 entry
The Guardian: Clive James: ‘Helen Hunt! Holy smoke, what an artist!’
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2016· 1 entry
This Is Us in 2016, Feud: Bette and Joan in 2017, American Housewife in 2018, and the premiere episode of the Mad About You revival in 2019
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2015· 1 entry
The Guardian: Ride review: wetsuit required for soppy Luke Wilson/Helen Hunt surf romance
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2003· 1 entry
Hunt returned to Broadway in Yasmina Reza's Life x 3, and in 2004, she starred in the drama A Good Woman, as a femme fatale in 1930s NYC
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2001· 1 entry
Hunt began a relationship with producer Matthew Carnahan
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1999· 1 entry
Awarded Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series for Mad About You (1999).
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1998· 3 entries
Awarded Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series for Mad About You (1998).
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Awarded Academy Award for Best Actress for As Good as It Gets (1998).
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Played the love interest of Moe Szyslak on The Simpsons episode "Dumbbell Indemnity", and played Viola in Shakespeare's Twelfth Night, at Lincoln Center in New York
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1997· 2 entries
Won Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy for As Good as It Gets (1997).
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Awarded Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series for Mad About You (1997).
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1996· 1 entry
Awarded Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series for Mad About You (1996).
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1995· 1 entry
Hunt played the wife of an ex-con living in Queens, alongside Nicolas Cage, in Kiss of Death, a very loosely based remake of the 1947 film noir classic of the same name
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1994· 2 entries
Won Golden Globe Awards (1994).
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Hunt started dating actor Hank Azaria
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1992· 2 entries
Hunt returned for her third and final outing as Lena in Trancers III, which was among her five film releases that year
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Appeared in the drama The Waterdance as a married woman having an affair with a writer; in the romantic comedy Only You, as a travel agent and the love interest of a doll's house designer; in the mockumentary Bob Rob
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1991· 1 entry
Hunt starred in Trancers II, the direct-to-video sequel to Trancers (1984), and played the lead female role in the drama My Life and Times, which only aired for 6 episodes
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1990· 1 entry
Hunt appeared with Tracey Ullman and Morgan Freeman in a Wild West version of The Taming of the Shrew at the Delacorte Theater in Central Park
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1988· 2 entries
And they rekindled their relationship in 2022
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Appeared in Stealing Home, as Hope Wyatt, the sister of Billy Wyatt, played by Mark Harmon and a cast featuring Jodie Foster and Harold Ramis
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1987· 1 entry
Hunt starred with Matthew Broderick in Project X, as a graduate student assigned to care for chimpanzees used in a secret Air Force project
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1983· 1 entry
Starred in Bill: On His Own, with Mickey Rooney and played Tami Maida in the fact-based production Quarterback Princess; both were made-for-television films
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1982· 1 entry
Hunt played a young woman who, while on PCP, jumps out of a second-story window, in a made-for-television film called Desperate Lives (a scene which she mocked during a Saturday Night Live monologue in 1994), and she wa
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1963· 1 entry
Born 1963-06-15.
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