Helen Hunt Biography
Helen Elizabeth Hunt is an American actress and filmmaker. She is the recipient of numerous accolades, including an Academy Award and four Emmy Awards. Hunt rose to fame portraying Jamie Buchman in the sitcom Mad About You, which earned her three Golden Globe Awards for Best Actress in a Television series – Musical or Comedy and four Primetime Emmy Awards for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy series.
How old is Helen Hunt? – Age
The American actress is 57 years old as of 15th June 2020. She was born in 1963 in Culver City, California, United States.
Who are Helen Hunt Parents? – Father and Mother
The American actress was raised by her parents. Her mother known as, Jane Elizabeth, worked as a photographer, and her father, Gordon Hunt, was a film, voice and stage director and acting coach. She was well raised by her parents.
Helen Hunt Family
The actress when she was three, her family moved to New York City, where her father directed theatre and she attended plays as a child several times a week. Her uncle is Peter H. Hunt, is also a director. Her maternal grandmother, Dorothy (Anderson) Fries, was a voice coach. Hunt’s paternal grandmother was from a German-Jewish family, while Hunt’s other grandparents were of English descent, with a Methodist religious background.
Helen Hunt Education
The American actress studied ballet, and briefly attended the University of California, Los Angeles.
Is Helen Hunt in a Relationship? – Spouse
Yes, the actress is currently dating. She is dating her lovely Boyfriend Steven Tepper. The pair are in love with each other. In 1994, the actress started dating actor Hank Azaria. They married in 1999, and divorced 17 months later. In 2001, She began a relationship with producer Matthew Carnahan. In 2004, they welcomed a daughter. The couple split in August 2017.
Helen Hunt Child? – Baby girl
The actress when she was married to Matthew Carnahan before they split, they were blessed with a baby girl. In 2004, they welcomed a daughter. The actress has something new to be madly in love with her baby. The former Mad About You star and Oscar winner and writer-producer Matthew Carnahan welcomed Makena lei Gordon Carnahan on May 13 in Los Angeles.
Helen Hunt Career
The American actress began working as a child actress in the 1970s. Her early roles included an appearance as Murray Slaughter’s daughter on The Mary Tyler Moore show, alongside Lindsay Wagner in an episode of The Bionic woman, an appearance in an episode of Ark II called “Omega”, and a regular role in the television series The Swiss Family Robinson. In 1983, she starred in Bill: On His Own, with Mickey Rooney and played Tami Maida in the fact-based production Quarterback princess; both were made-for television films.
In 1990, the actress appeared with Tracey Ullman and Morgan Freeman in a Wild West version of The Taming of the Shrew, at the Delacorte Theater in Central park.
In 1991, she starred in Trancers II, the direct-to-video sequel to Trancers (1984), and played the lead female role in the sitcom My Life and Times, which only aired for 6 episodes. In 1992, she would appear in the drama The Waterdance as a married woman having an affair with a writer; in the harem comedy Only You, as a travel agent and the love interest of a doll’s house designer.
The actress starred in Woody Allen’s The Curse of the Jade Scorpion (2001), as an efficiency expert hypnotized by a crooked hypnotist into stealing jewels. In 2003, she returned to Broadway in Yasmina Reza’s Life X 3, and in 2004, she starred in the drama A Good Woman, as a femme fatale in 1930s NYC.
She made her feature film directorial debut in Then she Found Me (2007), in which she also starred as a 39-year-old Brooklyn elementary school teacher, who after years is contacted by the flamboyant host of a local talk show, played by Bette Midler, who introduces herself as her biological mother.
The actress starred in the dramedy Every Day (2010), as one half of a married couple pulled apart by increasing responsibilities. According to Los Angeles Times, the film “comes as a reminder of [Hunt’s] talent for understatement, and a wish to see more of her”.
Hunt starred as sex surrogate Cheryl Cohen-Greene in The sessions (2012), alongside John Hawkes and William H. Macy. The role required Hunt to perform multiple scenes of full-frontal nudity, on which she further said: “Being naked was challenging, but even more than that was the vulnerability. She played research geneticist Mary-Claire King in the independent drama Decoding Annie Parker (2013), which was released to a mixed critical response. She wrote and directed the drama Ride (2014), in which she also starred as a mother who travels cross-country to California to be with her son after he decides to drop out of school and become a surfer.
In The Miracle season (2018), based on the true story of the Iowa City West High school Volleyball team, Hunt played Kathy Bresnahan, a volleyball coach.
In 2019, the actress appeared in the BBC series World on Fire as journalist Nancy Campbell, a character inspired by real-life war correspondent Clare Hollingworth, and reprised the role of Jamie Buchman in the Mad About You revival, which premiered in the form of a limited series, by Spectrum Originals.
In December 2020, it was reported that Hunt would appear in a leading role in the Starz series Blindspotting, created by Daveed Diggs and Rafael Casal and based on their 2018 film of the same name.
Helen Hunt Net worth
The American actress has an estimated net worth of $75 million as of 2021.