Linda Hunt

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Lydia Susanna Hunter (born April 2, 1945), better known by her stage name Linda Hunt , is an American film, stage, and television actress. After making his film debut playing Mrs. Oxheart at Popeye (1980), Hunt's breakthrough came to play Billy Kwan's male character in The Year of Living Dangerously (1982), which he won Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress, became the first Oscar winner to portray the opposite sex.

She has been a huge success in films like The Bostonians (1984), Dune (1984), Silverado < i> (1985), Waiting for the Month (1987), She-Devil (1989), Kindergarten Cop It appears to be Killed (1991), Rainless Thunder (1992), Twenty Bucks (1993), Younger and Younger Pocahontas (1995), The Relic (1997), PrÃÆ'ªt-ÃÆ' -Porter < > Pocahontas II: Journey to the New World (1998), Dragonfly (2002), Mine Owned and We (2005), and Fiction (2006).

Hunt also has a successful television career. She played Rose in Basement television (1987) and was told in The New Chimps television. She was a guest guest at Hallmark Hall of Fame in both 1978 and 1987, Space Rangers in 1993, Carnivale in 2003 and 2005, > Unprinted in 2008, Units in 2008, and Nip Tuck in 2009. From 1997 to 2002, Hunt played the recurring role of Judge Zoey Hiller at The Practice . She currently plays Henrietta "Hetty" Lange on the CBS television series NCIS: Los Angeles, a role she has had since her debut in 2009, where she has received two Teen Choice Awards. He is also the narrator in the God of War video game franchise.

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Hunt was born on April 2, 1945 in Morristown, New Jersey. His father, Raymond Davy Hunter (w. 1985), was vice president of Harper Fuel Oil. His mother, Elsie Doying Hunter (d ~ 1994), is a piano teacher who taught at Westport School of Music, and performed with Saugatuck Congregational Church Choir in Westport, Connecticut, where Hunt grew up. He has one sibling, a sister named Marcia (born 1940). Hunt attended the Interlochen Art Academy and the Goodman Drama School in Chicago, Illinois, now part of DePaul University.

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Careers

Movies

Hunt's debut film in 1980 was in the musical comedy Robert Altman Popeye . Two years later, he plays Billy Kwan in The Year of Living Dangerously, a film adaptation of Peter Weir from a novel of the same name. For his role as a Chinese-Australian male photographer Billy Kwan, Hunt won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress in 1983, becoming the first person to win an Oscar for playing a character of the opposite sex. In addition, the character is Asian and has dwarfism conditions. In his screen test, Hunt wore a wig, a false mustache, and "put a piece over his eyes to [appear] Asia". To achieve a role during production, Hunt shortened her "black hair [and] [d] wearing a cushion at her waist, shaving her eyebrows, and carrying something in her shirt pocket." In a 1986 interview with Bomb magazine Hunt said that Billy Kwan "is supra-personal [with] a layer of sexual ambiguity [.]"

Hunt also plays a nurse in She-Devil (1989) and a harsh school principal across from Arnold Schwarzenegger at Kindergarten Cop in 1990. Hunt plays the Grunt Ilsa killer in > If Looks Could Kill (1991) versus Richard Grieco and Roger Rees.

Theater

Hunt was a famous stage actress before she entered film and television. He made his Broadway debut in the production of 1975 Ah, Wilderness . She was nominated for Tony's Award for Best Actress in Play for her work in the 1984 drama End of the World . He also received two Obie Awards ensembles for his Off-Broadway work on Girls Top and A Metamorphosis in Miniature . She created the role of Aunt Dan in the drama Wallace Shawn Aunt Dan and Lemon . He is a member of the Long Wharf Theater Company in Connecticut. There he plays the Queen of Players in Hamlet production , among other roles. He portrays Sister Aloysius in the production of Pasadena Playhouse from John Patrick Shanley's game. She is praised for her appearance as a title character in Bertolt Brecht Mother Courage and Her Children. Hunt also appeared as Pope Joan at Caryl Churchill's Girls Top when the production of the London Royal Theater Theater was performed at the Public Theater in New York. In an interview with writer Craig Gholson and actor Vincent Caristi, Hunt discusses his experience acting in the theater, "Acting on stage is like a blast every night and what happens to you all the time when you try to... create something that is an organization's action and incredible concentration. "

Television

His television appearance included a recurring role as Judge Zoey Hiller on David E. Kelley's The Practice series and Dr. Claire Bryson on Without a Trace . He has told some of the installments of The American Experience in PBS. Since 2009, he has served as Henrietta's Operations Manager "Hetty" Lange, on CBS show NCIS: Los Angeles with Chris O'Donnell, LL Cool J, Daniela Ruah, Eric Christian Olsen and Barrett Foa.

Voice work

Hunt has a rich and resonant voice, which he has used in various documentaries, cartoons, and commercials. He is an on-air host for City Arts & amp; Lecture, a radio program recorded by KQED public radio at Nourse Theater in San Francisco, a program that presents interviews with renowned authors, artists and thinkers that discuss contemporary ideas and values, often addresses the creative process. Hunt was chosen by Walt Disney Feature Animation to lend enigmatic talk and sing voice to Grandmother Willow in the animated Pocahontas animated film and a live sequel to the video Pocahontas II: Journey to the New World >.

His vocal work includes the Management characters at Carnivà © le , and the protogenoi Gaia, who serves as the narrator in the God of War video series . He narrated the introductory film at the International Spy Museum in Washington, D.C., and also has been heard in various late-1990s commercials for Tylenol.

Hunt specializes in PBS Nature titled Christmas in Yellowstone . He also narrates the National Geographic documentary The Great Indian Railway .

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Personal life

Hunt has been with psychotherapist Karen Klein since 1978. Both were married in 2008. They currently live in historic neighborhoods in Hollywood, California with their pet dogs, in an American-style American craftsman early in the 20th century.

As a teenager, Hunt was diagnosed with hypopituitary dwarfism. Someone was short, Hunt stood at just 1.45 meters, or 4 feet 9 inches.

Hunt is an ambassador for Best Animal Society Animal.

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Movieography

Video game

• God of War 1 as Narrator
• God of War 2 as Gaia/Narrator
• God of War: Chains of Olympus as Narrator
• God of War 3 as Gaia/Narrator
• God of War: Ghost of Sparta
• God of War: Increase "as Narrator

Television credits

Theater

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References

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External links

• Linda Hunt on IMDb
• Linda Hunt on Broadway Internet Database
• Linda Hunt on the Internet Off-Broadway Database
• Linda Hunt at City Arts & amp; Lecture

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