Helen Hunt


Helen Elizabeth Hunt is an American actress, film director, and screenwriter. She starred in the sitcom Mad About You for seven years, and played single mother Carol Connelly in the 1997 romantic comedy film As Good as It Gets, for which she won the Academy Award for Best Actress. Some of her other notable films include Twister , Cast Away , What Women Want , Pay It Forward , and The Sessions , the latter garnered her a second Academy Award nomination. She made her directorial debut in 2007 with Then She Found Me . Hunt has also won four Emmy Awards, four Golden Globe Awards, and two Screen Actors Guild Awards.

Hunt was born in Culver City, California. Her mother, Jane Elizabeth , worked as a photographer, and her father, Gordon Hunt, is a film, voice and stage director and acting coach. Her uncle, Peter H. Hunt, is also a director. Her maternal grandmother, Dorothy Fries, was a voice coach. Hunts paternal grandmother was from a German Jewish family, while Hunts other grandparents were of English descent , with a Methodist religious background. When she was three, Hunts family moved to New York City, where her father directed theatre and Hunt attended plays as a child several times a week. Hunt studied ballet, and briefly attended UCLA.

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