Helen Hunt

Birthday: 15 June 1963, Culver City, California, USA

Birth Name: Helen Elizabeth Hunt

Height: 170 cm

Helen Hunt began studying acting at the age of eight with her father, respected director and acting coach Gordon Hunt. A year later she made her professional debut and afterwards worked steadily in fi ...Show More

My no-good Hollywood liberalism, you mean? I don't know what the right thing to do is. All I know is Show more My no-good Hollywood liberalism, you mean? I don't know what the right thing to do is. All I know is that when it's a month before the election, and there are issues that mean so much to me, and someone says "Put your name and your face on this, it might help", I am moved and I say yes. Do I think it's a good thing for famous people to put their name and face on stuff? I don't know. When I stop and think about it, maybe, if I want to help, I should just put a baseball hat on, not use my face at all, and be one of the people on the march, write a letter to my congressman, and just be a citizen. Hide

To tell you the truth, I don't have any expensive tastes. I'm just as happy going to a beach and sit Show more To tell you the truth, I don't have any expensive tastes. I'm just as happy going to a beach and sitting in the sun today as I was ten years ago. I wouldn't feel comfortable if I drove there in a Bentley convertible. Hide

I don't like people to think they know me. It makes me queasy. I don't like people to think they know me. It makes me queasy.

Not having incredible success for a long time probably helped. Of course some 20-year-old beautiful Show more Not having incredible success for a long time probably helped. Of course some 20-year-old beautiful girl, who goes from barely acting to being on the cover [of magazines] ... that's going to be disorienting and confusing, and people can't really be surprised if they have a skewed perspective of their importance in the world, when everyone comes together and tells them they're the most important thing in the world, then hates them for believing it. I didn't go through that. So that was lucky. Hide

You're not in control of anything. You're not even like a painter, who can say "I'm just going to go Show more You're not in control of anything. You're not even like a painter, who can say "I'm just going to go into my studio and do my work, and if nobody wants to buy it, well, maybe they will when I'm dead". You can't even do that. You're waiting for somebody to hand you a part. You're in this wildly dependent position. Hide

I'm not very sexy or glamorous! I have this girl next door kind of look and I have to do the best I Show more I'm not very sexy or glamorous! I have this girl next door kind of look and I have to do the best I can with that. Hide

I always used to say absolutely yes, and I didn't miss my childhood, because I was a child on the se Show more I always used to say absolutely yes, and I didn't miss my childhood, because I was a child on the set, and often I was working with other kids. On the other hand, do I feel like I was too serious, like I had this vocation? Hide

On a professional level, an Oscar means that your salary suddenly increases by a few million and you Show more On a professional level, an Oscar means that your salary suddenly increases by a few million and you get offered a lot more movies which in the past you had to beg to have a chance to read for. Hide

Helen Hunt's FILMOGRAPHY - Page 9

All as Actor (242) as Director (1) as Creator (1)

The Simpsons - Season 36

The Hitchhiker - Season 3

The Bionic Woman - Season 1

China Beach - Season 4

The Larry Sanders Show - Season 1

Captain Planet and the Planeteers - Season 6

Knots Landing - Season 13

Swiss Family Robinson - Season 1

The Simpsons - Season 15

Conan - Season 8

The Simpsons - Season 26

The Mary Tyler Moore Show - Season 4

Who Do You Think You Are - Season 8

The Larry Sanders Show - Season 2

The Simpsons - Season 33

The Simpsons - Season 10

Mad About You - Season 5

The Simpsons - Season 35

Saturday Night Live - Season 26

The Tonight Show Fallon - Season 12

Bob Roberts

How It Ends (2021)

Choices of the Heart

The Simpsons - Season 19

The Simpsons - Season 17

Knots Landing - Season 10

Helen Hunt'S roles

Darcy Maguire

Kathy Bresnahan

Arlene McKinney

Dr. Jo Harding

Jackie

Cheri Hamilton

Jess

Nettie

Leena

Cheryl