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Who is Holly Hunter?

Holly Hunter was born March 20, 1958 in Conyers, Georgia and got a degree in drama at the Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh. She then moved to New York to pursue an acting career, later relocating to Los Angeles. She appeared in several films, including The Burning and Swing Shift before landing a lead role opposite Nicolas Cage in Raising Arizona in 1987 as a barren woman desperate to have a child of her own. That same year, Hunter had parts in End of the Line and Broadcast News, too. Her career advanced steadily after that, with two or three movies nearly every year. Performances in Miss Firecracker, The Piano and the Firm led to bigger and better jobs and she won an Academy Award for her role in The Piano. In 2000, she was in Things You Can Tell Just By Looking At Her, Woman Wanted, Time Code, O Brother, Where Art Thou and Down From The Mountain, starting the new millennium off with a bang. She continued to appear in several films per year, including Moonlight Mile in 2002, Levity and Thirteen in 2003, Little Black Book in 2004 and Nine Lives in 2005. She took time out in 2006 to give birth to twin boys with her partner, Gordon MacDonald, then was back in 2007 with Frost Flowers and My Boy.