Helen Elizabeth
Hunt (born June 15, 1963) is an Emmy, Golden Globe and
Academy Award-winning American actress, perhaps most
widely known for her role in the television sitcom Mad
About You.
Hunt began her career in the 1970s as a child actress.
Her early roles included an appearance as Murray
Slaughter's daughter on The Mary Tyler Moore Show, 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. She also appeared as
a young woman who, while on PCP, jumps out of a
second-story window in a 1982 after school special
called Desperate Lives. In the mid-1980s, she had a
recurring role on St. Elsewhere as Clancy Williams,
girlfriend of Dr. Jack "Boomer" Morrison.
In the 1990s, after the lead female role in the
short-lived My Life and Times, Hunt became well-known to
television audiences in Mad About You, winning Emmy
Awards for her performance in 1996, 1997, 1998, and
1999. Over 25 million people tuned in to see her
performance in an episode titled, "The
Birth".[citation needed] By the end of the show in
1999, Hunt was the (then) highest-paid TV actress in
history, earning $1 million per episode.
Hunt has also had a successful film career, with roles
in movies such as Cast Away and the 1996 blockbuster
Twister. After winning an Academy Award for Best Actress
in 1998 for her performance in As Good as It Gets, she
took time off from movie work to play Viola in
Shakespeare's Twelfth Night at the Lincoln Center in New
York City.
A precociously talented youngster, Helen Hunt was
drawing paychecks as a television actress from the age
of ten. Before she was 17, she had appeared as a regular
on two series, Swiss Family Robinson (1975) and The
Fitzpatricks (1977). Hunt proved she was more than just
a workaday child actor with her starring performance in
the fact-based 1981 TV movie The Miracle of Kathy
Miller, in which she played a high school athlete who
overcame severe mental and physical damage brought on by
a highway accident.
While she had been appearing in films as early as
Rollercoaster in 1977, Hunt was never groomed as a star
player, and it is possible that her resemblance to
another child actress, Jodie Foster, held her back from
more important roles.
After taking on her first adult role in the 1982 sitcom
It Takes Two, Hunt's film assignments improved, with
sizable roles in Girls Just Want to Have Fun (1985),
Peggy Sue Got Married (1986), Project X (1987), Next of
Kin (1989), and The Waterdance (1991). She also gained a
small measure of cult status by appearing in a brace of
science fiction films, including Trancers II (1991) and
Trancers III (1992). That same year, Hunt landed her
longest-lasting acting assignment to date, as the
co-star of the Paul Reiser-created comedy series Mad
About You.
During the show's seven-year run, she won both Emmy and
Golden Globe awards for her portrayal of Jamie Buchman.
In 1996, Hunt had her most successful film role to date
in the blockbuster Twister. The following year, she
topped that when she received a Best Actress Oscar for
playing a caring waitress and single mother who
befriends acerbic, obsessive-compulsive author Melvin
Udall (Jack Nicholson, who also won an Oscar for his
performance) in As Good As It Gets.
After Mad About You ended in 1999, Hunt appeared in
films by several veteran directors, including Robert
Zemeckis (Cast Away [2000]), Robert Altman (Dr. T and
The Women [2000]), and Woody Allen (The Curse of the
Jade Scorpion [2001]). She starred in Life x 3 on
Broadway in 2003.
In 2000, Hunt returned to the screen in four films: Dr.
T & the Women with Richard Gere, Pay It Forward with
Kevin Spacey & 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 a small role in the film
Bobby. Her directorial debut came with the film Then She
Found Me, a film in which she also starred. She
currently owns a production company with Connie Tavel,
Hunt/Tavel Productions under Sony Pictures
Entertainment.
Personal life: Hunt was born in Culver City,
California to photographer Jane Elizabeth Novis and
Gordon Hunt, a film director and acting coach. Her
maternal grandmother, Dorothy Fries (born Dorothy
Anderson) was a voice coach.
Hunt was married to actor Hank Azaria from 1999 until
2000. She has been in a relationship with Matthew
Carnahan since 2001 and they have a daughter, Makena'lei
Gordon Carnahan, born in 2004.
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