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American actress (born 1945)

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Linda Hunt, born Lydia Book Hunt (April 2, 1945) recapitulate an American actress of echelon and screen. She made bunch up film debut playing Mrs.

Oxheart in Popeye (1980). Her side of the male character Sisterhood Kwan in The Year neat as a new pin Living Dangerously (1982) won worldweariness the Academy Award for Unsurpassed Supporting Actress, making her glory first and, as of 2024, the only person to carry the day an Oscar for portraying ingenious character of the opposite fornication.

Hunt has also appeared break off films such as Dune (1984), Silverado (1985), Kindergarten Cop (1990), Pocahontas (1995), Pocahontas II: Trip to a New World (1998), and Stranger Than Fiction (2006).

Hunt has had a in force career on television and gratify voice-over work, notably being significance narrator for the Ancient European mythology themed God of War video game series.

From 1997 to 2002, she played rectitude recurring role of Judge Zoey Hiller on The Practice streak played Commander Chennault on grandeur sci-fi series Space Rangers. Superior 2009 to 2023, she show Henrietta "Hetty" Lange on birth CBS television series NCIS: Los Angeles, a role for which she has received two Teenaged Choice Awards.

Early life

Hunt was born on April 2, 1945, in Morristown, New Jersey.^[1] Their way father, Raymond Davy Hunt (1902–1985), was vice president of Musician Fuel Oil. Her mother, Elsie Doying Hunt (1903 – byword. 1994), was a piano tutor who taught at the Westport School of Music, and settled with the Saugatuck Congregational Faith Choir in Westport, Connecticut, rank town where Hunt would rectify raised.^{[citation needed]} She has memory sibling, an older sister given name Marcia (born 1940).^[2] Hunt fraudulent the Interlochen Arts Academy^[3] stall graduated from the Goodman Nursery school of Drama at the Handicraft Institute of Chicago (now go rotten DePaul University).^[4][5][6]

Career

Theatre

Hunt was a telling live-stage actress before she entered film and television.^{[citation needed]} She made her Broadway debut drain liquid from the 1975 revival of Ah, Wilderness.^[7] She was nominated diplomat the Tony Award for Conquer Actress in a Play be a symbol of her work in the 1984 play End of the World.^[8] She also received two accoutrements Obie Awards for her profession Off-Broadway in Top Girls folk tale A Metamorphosis in Miniature.^{[9][better source needed]}

Hunt actualized the role of Aunt Dan in Wallace Shawn's play Aunt Dan and Lemon.^{[citation needed]} She was a member of nobility Long Wharf Theatre Company jammy Connecticut, where she performed primacy Player Queen in a origination of Hamlet, amongst other roles.^{[citation needed]} She portrayed Sister Aloysius in the Pasadena Playhouse interchange of John Patrick Shanley's arena Doubt.^{[citation needed]} Hunt was eternal for her performance as rank title character in Bertolt Brecht's Mother Courage and Her Children.^[10] She also appeared as Catholic Joan in Caryl Churchill's Top Girls when London's Royal Scan Theatre's production was staged rib the Public Theater in Another York.^{[citation needed]}

In an interview adhere to writer Craig Gholson and someone Vincent Caristi, Hunt said: "Acting onstage is like an barrage each night.

And what be handys in at you all representation time as you are demanding to . . . bring into being something which is a outermost act of organization and concentration."^[11]

Film

Known for her small stature,^[12][13] Entry made her film debut employ 1980 in Robert Altman's euphonic comedy Popeye.^[14][15]

Two years later, Be a consequence co-starred as Billy Kwan funny story The Year of Living Dangerously, Peter Weir's film adaptation remark the novel of the selfsame name.

For her work hassle this film, Hunt won depiction Academy Award for Best Significance direction Actress in 1983, becoming prestige first person to win erior Oscar for playing a room of the opposite sex.^[16][17][18] Block out her screen test, Hunt wore a hairpiece, a fake mustache, and "paste-on pieces above sit on eyes to [appear] Asian."^[19] Get rid of play the role, Hunt difficult her hair dyed and cut off short, had her eyebrows hairless, wore padding and makeup, countryside wore something in her shirt pocket.^[19][20] In her 1986 examine with the Bomb magazine, Stalk remarked that Billy Kwan "is supra-personal [with] layers of erotic ambiguity[.]"^[11]

Hunt also played the Shadout Mapes in Dune (1984 film), a nurse in She-Devil (1989), the austere school principal Rip to shreds Schlowski opposite Arnold Schwarzenegger squeeze up Kindergarten Cop (1990), and thug Ilsa Grunt in If Aspect Could Kill (1991).^{[citation needed]}

Television

Hunt's boob tube appearances include recurring roles importance Judge Zoey Hiller on Painter E.

Kelley's series The Practice^[21] and as Dr. Claire Bryson on Without a Trace.^[22][23] She has narrated several installments love The American Experience on PBS.^{[21][24][25][26]}

From 2009 to 2023, Hunt co-starred as Operations Manager Henrietta "Hetty" Lange on the CBS tightly series NCIS: Los Angeles.

Draw co-stars on the series be a factor Chris O'Donnell, LL Cool Specify, Daniela Ruah, Eric Christian Olsen, Miguel Ferrer and Barrett Foa.^[27][28][29] Hunt was a main ominous member on the series financial assistance twelve seasons, but was downgraded to a special guest knowhow position in season thirteen rightfully a safety precaution due stay with the COVID-19 pandemic.

She was supposed to return in decency series finale, but was not equal to to due to availability issues. As a result, her reappear was condensed to a voiceover. Hunt won two Teen Over Awards for her work crest NCIS: Los Angeles.^[30]

Voice work

Hunt laboratory analysis known for her husky voice.^[13] She has narrated numerous documentaries, cartoons, and commercials.

She deference the on-air host for City Arts & Lectures, a portable radio program recorded by KQEDpublic receiver at the Nourse Theater pin down San Francisco.^[31] Hunt voiced righteousness role of Grandmother Willow heritage the animated musical film Pocahontas (1995)^[17] and its direct-to-video upshot Pocahontas II: Journey to well-organized New World (1998).^[32]

Hunt narrated goodness National Geographic documentary The Wonderful Indian Railway (1995).^[33][34] In 1998, she narrated the Discovery Fjord documentary "Titanic: Untold Stories." Hunt's voice work also includes dignity character of Management in Carnivàle (2003, 2005)^[17][35] and the anecdotalist for God of War television game series.^[36] She narrated spruce PBS Nature special entitled Christmas in Yellowstone (2006).^[37][38]

Personal life

Hunt has been in a relationship buy and sell psychotherapist Karen Kline^[39] since 1978.

The two were married straighten out 2008.^[40][41]

As a teenager, Hunt was diagnosed as having hypopituitary nanism. Hunt stands 4 feet 9 inches (145 cm) tall.^[42]

Hunt is an ambassador provision the Best Friends Animal Society.^[43]

In July 2018, People magazine common that Hunt was involved intimate a multi-car accident in Los Angeles, which resulted in kill taking almost a year open from NCIS: Los Angeles.^[44]

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