LINDA HUNT
Name: Linda Hunt
Born: 2 April 1945 Morristown, New Jersey, USA
Linda Hunt (born April 2, 1945) is an American film, stage and television
actress. She is perhaps best known for her Academy Award-winning role in 1983's
The Year of Living Dangerously.
Hunt was born in Morristown, New Jersey, the daughter of Elsie (née Doying), a
piano teacher who taught at the Westport School of Music and accompanied the
Saugatuck Congregational Church choir, and Raymond Davy Hunt, the long-time vice
president of Harper Fuel Oil in Long Island. She has a sister, Marcia. She
was also born with Turner's Syndrome, a chromosonal disease that only women get,
closely associated with Down's Syndrome.
Hunt's film debut occurred in 1980 in Robert Altman's musical comedy Popeye. In
1982 she won the Oscar as Best Supporting Actress for her role as the male
Chinese-Australian dwarf Billy Kwan in the film The Year of Living Dangerously.
She is still the only person ever to win an Oscar for playing a character of the
opposite sex.
Hunt is also a well known stage actress, who has received two Obie awards and a
Tony Award nomination for her theatre work. She created the role of Aunt Dan in
Wallace Shawn's play Aunt Dan and Lemon. Recently, she portrayed Sister Aloysius
in the Pasadena Playhouse production of John Patrick Shanley's Tony Award-winning
play Doubt. Her television appearances include a recurring role as Judge Zoey
Hiller on David E. Kelley's series The Practice.
Beside her acting abilities, Hunt is distinguished by her small stature (she is
4' 9" or 1.45 m), and her rich, resonant voice, which she has used effectively
in numerous documentaries, cartoons, and commercials. Hunt is the on-air host
for City Arts & Lectures, a radio program recorded by KQED public radio. She was
chosen by Walt Disney Feature Animation to lend her enigmatic speaking and
singing voice to Grandmother Willow in the film Pocahontas. Her voice work also
includes the character of "Management" in the US TV series Carnivàle, and Gaia,
who serves as the Narrator in the video games God of War and God of War II. She
also narrates the introductory film at the International Spy Museum in
Washington, DC.
Name: Linda Hunt
Born: 2 April 1945 Morristown, New Jersey, USA
Linda Hunt (born April 2, 1945) is an American film, stage and television
actress. She is perhaps best known for her Academy Award-winning role in 1983's
The Year of Living Dangerously.
Hunt was born in Morristown, New Jersey, the daughter of Elsie (née Doying), a
piano teacher who taught at the Westport School of Music and accompanied the
Saugatuck Congregational Church choir, and Raymond Davy Hunt, the long-time vice
president of Harper Fuel Oil in Long Island. She has a sister, Marcia. She
was also born with Turner's Syndrome, a chromosonal disease that only women get,
closely associated with Down's Syndrome.
Hunt's film debut occurred in 1980 in Robert Altman's musical comedy Popeye. In
1982 she won the Oscar as Best Supporting Actress for her role as the male
Chinese-Australian dwarf Billy Kwan in the film The Year of Living Dangerously.
She is still the only person ever to win an Oscar for playing a character of the
opposite sex.
Hunt is also a well known stage actress, who has received two Obie awards and a
Tony Award nomination for her theatre work. She created the role of Aunt Dan in
Wallace Shawn's play Aunt Dan and Lemon. Recently, she portrayed Sister Aloysius
in the Pasadena Playhouse production of John Patrick Shanley's Tony Award-winning
play Doubt. Her television appearances include a recurring role as Judge Zoey
Hiller on David E. Kelley's series The Practice.
Beside her acting abilities, Hunt is distinguished by her small stature (she is
4' 9" or 1.45 m), and her rich, resonant voice, which she has used effectively
in numerous documentaries, cartoons, and commercials. Hunt is the on-air host
for City Arts & Lectures, a radio program recorded by KQED public radio. She was
chosen by Walt Disney Feature Animation to lend her enigmatic speaking and
singing voice to Grandmother Willow in the film Pocahontas. Her voice work also
includes the character of "Management" in the US TV series Carnivàle, and Gaia,
who serves as the Narrator in the video games God of War and God of War II. She
also narrates the introductory film at the International Spy Museum in
Washington, DC.