Overview
Born : June 15, 1963 in Culver City, California, USA
Birth Name : Helen Elizabeth Hunt
Height : 5' 7" (1.7 m)
Helen Hunt was brought into the world in Culver City, California. Her dad was chief and acting mentor Gordon Hunt, and Helen began acting when she was a youngster. Her first job was in the TV film Pioneer Woman (1973). She showed up in TV motion pictures and shows for a really long time and was projected in the sitcom It Takes Two (1982). She additionally showed up in include movies like Peggy Sue Got Married (1986) and Project X (1987).
From 1992 to 1999, Hunt featured in the sitcom Mad About You (1992), winning four Emmy Awards for Lead Actress in a Comedy Series. She likewise tracked down achievement in films during this time. She featured in the film Twister (1996) and afterward won an Academy Award for Best Actress for her exhibition in As Good as It Gets (1997). In 2000, she featured in Pay It Forward (2000), What Women Want (2000), and Cast Away (2000).
Chase made her first time at the helm with the film Then She Found Me (2007). She was named for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress after her presentation in The Sessions (2012).
The girl of Gordon Hunt (b. 1929) and Jane Elizabeth Novis (b. 1938), Helen Hunt is the stepdaughter of B.J. Ward and niece of Peter H. Chase and Barbette Tweed. Maternal niece of James Novis (b. 1941) and Catherine Fries (b. 1961), an artist. Maternal granddaughter of Edward Novis (1902-1944) and Dorothy Novis (1915-2011).
Chase's fatherly extraordinary grandparents were Gustav Rothenberg (1857-1910; brought into the world in Germany) and Florence Scholle (1863-1949; brought into the world in California). Her fatherly grandparents were George Hunt (1895-1996) and Helen (Rothenberg) Roberts (1899-1935). Her fatherly grandma was from a German Jewish family, while her three different grandparents were of English plummet. Her maternal granddad, Edward Norman Novis, was from St. Leonards, Hastings, England.
She and her Mad About You (1992) co-star, Paul Reiser, were both given $1,000,000 per episode compensations for the 1999 TV season.
Chase was brought up in Los Angeles County, moved on from Providence High School (Burbank, California), and, later, momentarily went to UCLA for one month prior to exiting.
Observes Thanksgiving consistently with Anthony Edwards.
Chase did a visitor voice job on "The Simpsons: Dumbbell Indemnity (1998)" as Moe's better half, Renee; the voice of Moe is Hank Azaria, Helen's genuine spouse around then.
Got the job in Twister (1996) in light of her exhibition in The Waterdance (1992).
One of People Magazine's 50 Most Beautiful People. [1998]
Got the lead in As Good as It Gets (1997) after Holly Hunter turned it down.
In the wake of separating from Hank Azaria, she moved to New York, expecting to accomplish theater work, particularly William Shakespeare. [2000]
Chase won four Emmys, four Golden Globes, a Blockbuster Award, two Screen Actors Guild grants, four American Comedy Awards, three Viewers for Quality Television Awards and an Oscar, alongside different honors. She is just the second entertainer to win a Golden Globe, an Oscar, and an Emmy in a similar schedule year. The initially was Liza Minnelli in 1973.
Her dearest companion is Helen Slater.
Seen the World Trade Center assaults from the top of her pristine New York condo and chose to leave the city immediately, yet couldn't get a trip out. She booked a personal luxury plane at significant cost and flew herself and her staff out of Connecticut three days after the fact, the primary day they permitted personal luxury planes to fly. [September 2001]
She showed up in four motion pictures delivered in the year 2000. Two of them were in venues simultaneously during the year's end Christmas season, and earned more than $150 million each: Cast Away (2000) and What Women Want (2000).
Beat Teri Hatcher for the job of Jamie Buchman in Mad About You (1992) at the last tryouts.
She and her ex, Hank Azaria, have both visitor featured on the TV show Friends (1994), however not in a similar episode.
Regularly visits Hawaii, which she originally visited when she was 14. Says, "It's the place where I feel right. I can compose here, think, chill and get an unmistakable head.".
Asked author Robert B. Parker to make a female investigator for hire for her to play. The outcome was Parker's series of books including Sunny Randall.
Was considered for the piece of Carolyn Burnham in American Beauty (1999). Anyway Annette Bening, who proceeded to get a Best Actress Oscar designation for her exhibition, was projected all things considered.
Notwithstanding playing their little girl in Peggy Sue Got Married (1986), Hunt is only 9 years more youthful than Kathleen Turner and 1 year more established than Nicolas Cage.
Brought forth her lone youngster at age 40 (little girl Makena Lei Gordon Carnahan) on May 13, 2004. The kid's dad is Hunt's then-accomplice, Matthew Carnahan. Makena Lei Gordon Carnahan was considered through IVF treatment. "Makena Lei" signifies "many blossoms of paradise." The child's center name, Gordon, is to pay tribute to Hunt's dad, Gordon Hunt. Chase got back to work in 2006 to start shooting and coordinating Then She Found Me (2007).
Showing up at the Circle in the Square Theater's creation of Yasmina Reza's play, "Life (x) 3". [March 2003]
Gotten the Maui Film Festival's Stella Award at the 'Wailea Marriott' Ballroom on June 18, 2005. [June 2005]
Was the 113th entertainer to get an Academy Award; she won the Best Actress Oscar for As Good as It Gets (1997) at The 70th Annual Academy Awards (1998) on March 23, 1998.
Is one of 25 entertainers who have gotten an Academy Award for their presentation in a parody; hers being for As Good as It Gets (1997). The others in sequential request, are: Claudette Colbert (It Happened One Night (1934)), Loretta Young (The Farmer's Daughter (1947)), Josephine Hull (Harvey (1950)), Judy Holliday (Born Yesterday (1950)), Audrey Hepburn (Roman Holiday (1953)), Goldie Hawn (Cactus Flower (1969)), Glenda Jackson (A Touch of Class (1973)), Lee Grant (Shampoo (1975)), Diane Keaton (Annie Hall (1977)), Maggie Smith (California Suite (1978)), Mary Steenburgen (Melvin and Howard (1980)), Jessica Lange (Tootsie (1982)), Olympia Dukakis (Moonstruck (1987)), Cher (Moonstruck (1987)), Jessica Tandy (Driving Miss Daisy (1989)), Mercedes Ruehl (The Fisher King (1991)), Marisa Tomei (My Cousin Vinny (1992)), Dianne Wiest (Bullets Over Broadway (1994)), Mira Sorvino (Mighty Aphrodite (1995)), Frances McDormand (Fargo (1996)), Judi Dench (Shakespeare in Love (1998)), Gwyneth Paltrow (Shakespeare in Love (1998)), Penélope Cruz (Vicky Cristina Barcelona (2008)), and Jennifer Lawrence (Silver Linings Playbook (2012)).
Is one of 14 entertainers to have won both the Best Actress Academy Award and the Best Actress in a Comedy/Musical Golden Globe for a similar exhibition; hers being for As Good as It Gets (1997). The others, in sequential request, are: Judy Holliday for Born Yesterday (1950), Julie Andrews for Mary Poppins (1964), Barbra Streisand for Funny Girl (1968), Liza Minnelli for Cabaret (1972), Glenda Jackson for A Touch of Class (1973), Diane Keaton for Annie Hall (1977), Sissy Spacek for Coal Miner's Daughter (1980), Cher for Moonstruck (1987), Jessica Tandy for Driving Miss Daisy (1989), Gwyneth Paltrow for Shakespeare in Love (1998), Reese Witherspoon for Walk the Line (2005), Marion Cotillard for La Vie En Rose (2007), and Jennifer Lawrence for Silver Linings Playbook (2012).
Is one of 15 Oscar-winning entertainers to have been brought into the world in the province of California. The others are Fay Bainter, Gloria Grahame, Jo Van Fleet, Liza Minnelli, Tatum O'Neal, Diane Keaton, Sally Field, Anjelica Huston, Cher, Jodie Foster, Gwyneth Paltrow, Angelina Jolie, Marcia Gay Harden and Brie Larson.
Was up for the job of Tabitha Stephens on Bewitched (1964).
Previous accomplice of Matthew Carnahan (2001-2017); 1 youngster.
She was answerable for recommending Lou Richards to her dad Gordon Hunt to voice Leader-1 in Challenge of the Gobots animation series.
Is one of 3 entertainers to have won the Best Actress Oscar (hers being for As Good as It Gets (1997)) and the Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series Emmy (hers being for Mad About You (1992)). Different entertainers are Loretta Young and Shirley Booth.
Companions with Mindy Cohn.
Brought into the world at 12:55 PM (PDT).
List of Helen Hunt Movies
- A Patriot (pre-production)
- Delfino's Journey (pre-production)
- How It Ends
- The Night Clerk
- Candy Jar
- The Miracle Season
- I Love You, Daddy
- Shots Fired (TV Series)
- Ride
- Decoding Annie Parker
- The Sessions
- Jock
- Soul Surfer
- Judd Apatow's All-Star Video Part 2 (Short)
- Every Day
- Then She Found Me
- Bobby
- A Good Woman
- The Curse of the Jade Scorpion
- What Women Want
- Cast Away
- Pay It Forward
- Dr. T & the Women
- Twelfth Night, or What You Will (TV Movie)
- As Good as It Gets
- Twister
- Kiss of Death
- Friends (TV Series)
- The Larry Sanders Show (TV Series)
- Sexual Healing (Short)
- In the Company of Darkness (TV Movie)
- Death Lives (Video)
- Mr. Saturday Night
- Bob Roberts
- Only You
- Capitol Critters (TV Series)
- The Waterdance
- Murder in New Hampshire: The Pamela Smart Story (TV Movie)
- Into the Badlands (TV Movie)
- Trancers II
- Incident at Dark River (TV Movie)
- Next of Kin
- American Playhouse (TV Series)
- Pulse Pounders
- Trancers: City of Lost Angels (Short)
- Shooter (TV Movie)
- Stealing Home
- Miles from Home
- The Nativity (Video short)
- Project X
- Deadly Nightmares (TV Series)
- Peggy Sue Got Married
- The Frog Prince
- Girls Just Want to Have Fun
- Trancers
- Sweet Revenge (TV Movie)
- Bill: On His Own (TV Movie)
- The Miracle of Kathy Miller (TV Movie)
- CBS Afternoon Playhouse (TV Series)
- Angel Dusted (TV Movie)
- Family (TV Series)
- Transplant (TV Movie)
- The Fitzpatricks (TV Series)
- Rollercoaster
- The Spell (TV Movie)
- Having Babies (TV Movie)
- Death Scream (TV Movie)
- All Together Now (TV Movie)
- Amy Prentiss (TV Series) & Many more….
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