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Linda Hunt

Linda Hunt is best-known for her Academy Award winning performance in The Year of Living Dangerously and has played an extraordinarily diverse range of characters in films, theater and television. She has won Obies and Tony nominations for her theater work in New York. She made her film debut in Robert Altman's Pope ye. Her other films include The Relic, Twenty Bucks, Pret A Porte, Kindergarten Cop, She-Devil, Waiting for the Moon, Silverado, Eleni, The Bostonians and David Lynch's Dune. Most recently, she has appeared as Judge Zoey Hiller on ABC's The Practice. She is a frequent narrator of documentaries for the Discovery Channel. National Geographic and PBS. She was the voice of 'Grandmother Willow' in Pocahontas.

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Linda Hunt Facts

OccupationActress
BirthdayApril 2, 1945 (63)
SignAries
BirthplaceMorristown, New Jersey, USA
Height4' 9" (1m45)
Awards1984 Academy Awards: Best Supporting Actress (for The Year of Living Dangerously)

Selected Filmography

Pocahontas
Dune
The Muppets Take Manhattan
The Outsiders
Popeye
Kindergarten Cop
The Year of Living Dangerously
Dragonfly
Pocahontas II
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