Linda Hunt

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Linda Hunt
Birth name	Lydia Susanna Hunter
Born	April 2 1945 (age 63) Morristown, New Jersey, USA
Other name(s)	Lydia Hunt
Spouse(s)	George Henry Albertson Junior (1976-1981) no children
Official site	Lydia-Hunter

Linda Hunt (born April 2, 1945) is an American film, stage and television actress. She is known for her Academy Award-winning role in 1983's The Year of Living Dangerously.

1 Biography
- 1.1 Early life
- 1.2 Career
2 Filmography
3 Selected television credits
4 External links

[edit] Biography

[edit] Early life

Hunt was born in Morristown, New Jersey to Elsie Doying, 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.

[edit] Career

Hunt's film debut occurred in 1980 in Robert Altman's musical comedy Popeye. 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 in 1982. This made her the first actor to ever win an Oscar for playing a character of the opposite gender.

Hunt is also a well known stage actress, who has received two Obie awards and a Tony 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."

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 Pocahontas. Her voice work also includes the character of "Management", on US TV series Carnivàle and Gaia, who serves as the Narrator in God of War and its sequel God of War II . She also narrates the introduction film at the Spy Museum in Washington, DC.

[edit] Filmography

God of War II (2007) (VG) (voice) - Narrator/Gaia
Nature, Christmas in Yellowstone (2006) - Narrator
Stranger Than Fiction (2006) - Dr. Mittag-Leffler
Auschwitz -- Inside the Nazi State (2005) - Narrator
Yours, Mine and Ours (2005) - Mrs. Munion
A Lot Like Love (2005) - Airline Attendant
God of War (2005) (VG) (voice) - Narrator
Dragonfly (2002) - Sister Madeline
The Relic (1997) - Dr. Ann Cuthbert
Eat Your Heart Out (1997) - Kathryn
Pocahontas (1995) - Grandmother Willow (voice)
Prêt-à-Porter (1994) - Regina Krumm
Younger and Younger (1993) - Frances
Twenty Bucks (1993) - Angeline
Rain Without Thunder (1992) - Atwood Society Director
If Looks Could Kill (1991) - Ilsa Grunt
Kindergarten Cop (1990) - Miss Schlowski
Carmilla (1990) - Narrator
She-Devil (1989) - Hooper
Waiting for the Moon (1987) - Alice B. Toklas
Eleni (1985) - Katina
Silverado (1985) - Stella
Dune (1984) - Shadout Mapes
The Bostonians (1984) - Dr. Prance
The Year of Living Dangerously (1982) - Billy Kwan
Popeye (1980) - Mrs. Oxheart

Preceded by Jessica Lange for Tootsie	Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress 1983 for The Year of Living Dangerously	Succeeded by Peggy Ashcroft for A Passage to India