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Helen Hunt
Hunt at the Elgin Theatre at the 2007 Toronto International Film Festival screening of Then She Found Me
Born	Helen Elizabeth Hunt June 15 1963 (1963-06-15) (age 45) Culver City, California
Spouse(s)	Hank Azaria (1999-2000)
Domestic partner(s)	Matthew Carnahan (2001-present)
Awards won Academy Awards Best Actress 1997 As Good as It Gets Emmy Awards Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999 Mad About You Golden Globe Awards Best TV Actress - Comedy/Musical 1994, 1995, 1997 Mad About You Best Actress - Motion Picture Musical/Comedy 1998 As Good as It Gets Screen Actors Guild Awards Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role 1997 As Good as It Gets

Helen Elizabeth Hunt (born June 15, 1963) is an Emmy-, Golden Globe-, and Academy Award-winning American actress, widely known for her role in the television sitcom Mad About You and her Academy Award-winning role in As Good As It Gets.

Biography

Personal life

Hunt was born in Culver City, California, the daughter of Jane Elizabeth (née Novis), a photographer, and Gordon Hunt, a film director and acting coach.Helen Hunt at the TCM Movie DatabaseHelen Hunt genealogy. Rootsweb.com. Her maternal grandmother, Dorothy Fries (née Anderson) was a voice coach, and her uncle, Peter H. Hunt, is also a director.Helen Hunt biography. Film Reference.com. Helen Hunt is of JewishCohn, Robert A.. "Paul Reiser kicks off book fest", St. Louis Jewish Light, 2007-11-07. Retrieved on 2007-11-08.  and Christian background.

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, Måkena Lei Gordon Carnahan, born in 2004.Helen Hunt: It\'s a Girl!, a May 2004 E! Online article (Archive copy at the Internet Archive Wayback Machine)

Career

Hunt began working in the 1970s as a child actress. Her early roles included an appearance as Murray Slaughter\'s daughter on The Mary Tyler Moore Show, alongside Lindsay Wagner in an episode of The Bionic Woman, 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. She remains best known for one of her earliest roles as Jennie in "Bill: on his own", costarring "Mickey Rooney"

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. 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.Helen Hunt at the Internet Broadway Database

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. Hunt was also a final candidate for the role of "Clarice Starling" in Hannibal, after Jodie Foster decided not to reprise her Oscar winning role from The Silence of the Lambs (film). However, Hunt lost the role to Julianne Moore at the last minute. In 2006, Hunt appeared in a small role in the film Bobby.

Hunt is also a director, having helmed several episodes of Mad About You, including the series finale. Her big-screen directorial debut came with the film Then She Found Me, in which she also starred.

She currently owns a production company with Connie Tavel, Hunt/Tavel Productions under Sony Pictures Entertainment.

Filmography and awards

Hunt in 1994, before the Emmy rehearsal

Hunt has been recognized extensively in her career. In 1998 she joined Liza Minnelli and Helen Mirren as the three actresses to win a Golden Globe Award, an Academy Award and an Emmy Award in the same year. Hunt was nominated for an Emmy Award for lead actress in a comedy seven years in a row, from 1993 through 1999, winning in the last four years.Academy of Television Arts & Sciences. Emmys.com. She is the only actress to win four consecutive Emmys and to win four Blockbuster Entertainment Awards.^[citation needed]

Television

Film

References

External links

• Helen Hunt at the Internet Movie Database

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