Helen Hunt
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Helen Elizabeth Hunt (born June 15, 1963) is an American actress and director. She is the recipient of numerous accolades, including an Academy Award, four Primetime Emmy Awards, and four Golden Globe Awards. Hunt rose to fame in 1992, portraying Jamie Buchman in the sitcom Mad About You which earned her three Golden Globe Awards for Best Actress and four Primetime Emmy Awards for Lead Actress. In 1997, Hunt won the Academy Award for Best Actress for starring as Carol Connelly in the romantic comedy As Good as It Gets, while her portrayal of Cheryl Cohen-Greene in The Sessions (2012), gained her a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. Her other notable films include Twister (1996), Cast Away (2000), What Women Want (2000), Pay It Forward (2000), Bobby (2006), Soul Surfer (2011), and The Miracle Season (2018). Hunt made her directorial film debut with Then She Found Me (2007), and has directed the film Ride (2014), and episodes of television series, including House of Lies, This Is Us, Feud: Bette and Joan, American Housewife, and the premiere episode of the Mad About You revival. Description above from the Wikipedia article Helen Hunt, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known for
Credits
Cast Away (2000)
as Kelly Frears
Twister (1996)
as Jo
Pay It Forward (2000)
as Arlene McKinney
No Friends (2025)
as Jamie Buchman
What Women Want (2000)
as Darcy McGuire
As Good as It Gets (1997)
as Carol Connelly
I See You (2019)
as Jackie Harper
Chicken Little (1998)
as (voice)
Trancers III (1992)
as Lena
Peggy Sue Got Married (1986)
as Beth Bodell
Trancers (1984)
as Leena
Shooter (1988)
as Tracey
Wide-Awake (2012)
as The Yoga Master
Kiss of Death (1995)
as Bev Kilmartin
Trancers II (1991)
as Lena Deth
The Night Clerk (2020)
as Ethel Bromley
Soul Surfer (2011)
as Cheri Hamilton
Girls Just Want to Have Fun (1985)
as Lynne Stone
The Sessions (2012)
as Cheryl
Dr. T & the Women (2000)
as Bree Davis
Then She Found Me (2007)
as April Epner
Sweet Revenge (1984)
as Debbie Markham
In Cold Light (2026)
as Claire
Next of Kin (1989)
as Jessie Gates
The Curse of the Jade Scorpion (2001)
as Betty Ann Fitzgerald
Bobby (2006)
as Samantha Stevens
A Good Woman (2004)
as Mrs. Stella Erlynne
United We Fan (2018)
as Self (archive footage)
Project X (1987)
as Teri
RSC Meets USA: Working Shakespeare (—)
as Self
How It Ends (2021)
as Lucinda
The Waterdance (1992)
as Anna
The Miracle Season (2018)
as Kathy Bresnahan
Decoding Annie Parker (2014)
as Mary-Claire King
Rollercoaster (1977)
as Tracy Calder
Bob Roberts (1992)
as Rose Pondell
Ride (2014)
as Jackie
Every Day (2010)
as Jeannie
Candy Jar (2018)
as Kathy
Mr. Saturday Night (1992)
as Annie Wells
Stealing Home (1988)
as Hope Wyatt
Miles from Home (1988)
as Jennifer
Murder in New Hampshire: The Pamela Wojas Smart Story (1991)
as Pamela Smart
I Love You, Daddy (2017)
as Aura Topher
Jock the Hero Dog (2011)
as Jess (voice)
NBC 75th Anniversary Special (2002)
as Self
Child Bride of Short Creek (1981)
as Naomi
The Nativity (1986)
as Mary (voice)
Saturday Night Live in the '90s: Pop Culture Nation (2007)
as Self
Only You (1992)
as Clare Enfield
Trancers: City of Lost Angels (1988)
as Lena
The Spell (1977)
as Kristina Matchett
In the Company of Darkness (1993)
as Gina Pulasky
Incident at Dark River (1989)
as Jesse McCandless
Into the Badlands (1991)
as Blossom
Tower Stories (—)
Actor
Pulse Pounders (1988)
as Leena (Trancers sequence)
Angel Dusted (1981)
as Lizzie Eaton
Pioneer Woman (1973)
as Sarah Sargeant
CinemAbility: The Art of Inclusion (2018)
as Self
Death Scream (1975)
as Teila Rodriguez
The Easter Story (1990)
as Jerusalem Woman #1 (voice)
Quarterback Princess (1983)
as Tami Maida
I Think I'm Having A Baby (1981)
as Phoebe
The Frog Prince (1986)
as Princess Henrietta
Bill: On His Own (1983)
as Jenny Wells
Twelfth Night (1998)
as Viola & Cesario
Sexual Healing (1993)
as Rene
The Miracle of Kathy Miller (1981)
as Kathy Miller
Choices of the Heart (1983)
as Cathy
Aliens Gone Wild (2005)
as Lena (archive footage)
All Together Now (1975)
as Susan Lindsay
Having Babies (1976)
as Sharon McNamara
Transplant (1979)
as Janice Hurley
Videozone: The Making of "Trancers II" (1991)
as Self
Desperate Lives (1982)
as Sandy Cameron
A Patriot (—)
as Scarlett