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Helen Elizabeth Hunt (born June 15, 1963) is an Emmy and Oscar-winning American actress.

Biography

Early life

Hunt was born in Culver City, California to Gordon Hunt, a half-Jewish film director, and Jane Novis, a Methodist photographer. The daughter of an acting coach, she showed interest in acting as a child. In the 1970s and 1980s, she appeared in a number of made-for-TV movies.

Career

Hunt began her career in the late 1970's as a child actress. She appeared as a marijuana smoking classmate on an episode of The Facts of Life. She also memorably appeared as a young woman who, while on LSD, jumps out of a second story window, in an after school special.

In the 1990s, Hunt became well-known to television audiences as co-star of sitcom Mad About You with screen partner Paul Reiser, winning Emmy Awards for her performance in 1996, 1997, 1998, and 1999. By the end of the show in 1999, Hunt was the highest paid TV actress in history, earning $1 million per episode.

Hunt has also had a successful film career and has been in Hollywood 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.

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

Hunt also holds many awards records; She is the only actress to win a Golden Globe Award, an Academy Award and an Emmy Award in the same year (1998), the only actress to win four consecutive Emmys, and the only actress to win four Blockbuster Entertainment Awards.

Relationships

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.

Filmography

Pioneer Woman (Made for TV) (1973)
Death Scream (Made for TV) (1975)
All Together Now (Made for TV) (1975)
The Swiss Family Robinson (Made for TV) (1975)
Having Babies (Made for TV) (1976)
The Spell (Made for TV) (1977)
Rollercoaster
(1977)
Transplant (Made for TV) (1979)
Child Bride of Short Creek (Made for TV) (1981)
I Think I'm Having a Baby (Made for TV) (1981)
The Best Little Girl in the World (Made for TV) (1981)
Angel Dusted (Made for TV) (1981)
The Miracle of Kathy Miller
(Made for TV) (1981)
Desperate Lives (Made for TV) (1982)
Bill: On His Own (Made for TV) (1983)
Quarterback Princess
(Made for TV) (1983)
Choices of the Heart (Made for TV) (1983)
Sweet Revenge (Made for TV) (1984)
Trancers
(1985)
Waiting to Act (1985)
Girls Just Want To Have Fun (1985)
The Nativity (1986)
Peggy Sue Got Married
(1986)
Project X (1987)
Shooter (Made for TV) (1988)
Miles from Home
(1988)
Stealing Home
(1988)
The Frog Prince (1988)
Incident at Dark River (Made for TV) (1989)
Next of Kin (1989)
Murder in New Hampshire: The Pamela Wojas Smart Story (Made for TV) (1991)
Trancers II (1991)
Into the Badlands (Made for TV) (1991)
The Waterdance (1992)
Only You (1992)
Mr. Saturday Night
(1992)
Bob Roberts
(1992)
Trancers III (1992)
Sexual Healing (1993)
In the Company of Darkness (Made for TV) (1993)
Kiss of Death (1995)
Twister (1996)
As Good as It Gets
(1997)
Twister: Ride it Out (1998)
Twelfth Night (Made for TV) (1998)
Dr. T & the Women
(2000)
What Women Want
(2000)
Pay It Forward
(2000)
Cast Away
(2000)
Timepiece (2001)
The Curse of the Jade Scorpion
(2001)
A Good Woman
(2005)
Empire Falls (Made for TV) (2005)
Then She Found Me (2007)

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