Helen B Hunt

Helen Hunt

• Birth Name Hunt, Helen Elizabeth
• Biography Helen Hunt began studying acting at the age of eight with her father, respected director and acting coach Gordon Hunt (I). A year later she made her professional debut and afterwards worked steadily i...
  
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• Spouse Hank Azaria (17 July 1999 - 18 December 2000) (divorced)
  
• Trivia Graduated from Providence High School in Burbank, California.
  She and her "Mad About You" (1992) co-star, Paul Reiser,were both given $1,000,000 per episode salaries for the 1999 TV season.
  Attended UCLA for 1 month.
  Celebrates Thanksgiving every year with Anthony Edwards (I).
  Did a guest voice on "The Simpsons" (1989) in episode: #9.16"Dumbbell Indemnity," as Moe's girlfriend, Renee. The voice of Moe isHank Azaria, Helen's real-life love at that time.
  Got the role in Twister (1996) based on her performance inThe Waterdance (1992).
  
• Other Work Stage: Played Viola/Cesario in William Shakespeare (I)'s "Twelfth Night" at Lincolnn Center, NY (1998).
  Appeared in music video for The Muppets, "She Drives Me Crazy".
  Stage: Played Emily in the Tony Award-winning revival of "Our Town" by Thornton Wilder, with Spalding Gray, Eric Stoltz and Frances Conroy - Lyceum Theater, NYC (1989).
  Her credits with LA theatre company the Actor's Gang include: Joan in "The Guys" by Anne Nelson (I) (2002) and various role in "Methusalem" by Ivan Goll (1985).
  2000: Print ads for Sensa Pens and their support of the Healing Hands Project.
  Appeared in "Gladiators" - Cast Theatre, California.
  
• Personal quotes To tell you the truth, I don't have any expensive tastes. I'm just ashappy going to a beach and sitting in the sun today as I was ten yearsago. I wouldn't feel comfortable if I drove there in a Bentle...
  I'm not very sexy or glamorous! I have this girl next door kind of lookand I have to do the best I can with that.
  On a professional level, an Oscar means that your salary suddenlyincreases by a few million and you get offered a lot more movies whichin the past you had to beg to have a chance to read for.
  You're not in control of anything. You're not even like a painter, whocan say "I'm just going to go into my studio and do my work, and ifnobody wants to buy it, well, maybe they will when I'm dead". Y...
  Not having incredible success for a long time probably helped. Of coursesome 20-year-old beautiful girl, who goes from barely acting to beingon the cover [of magazines] ... that's going to be disorien...
  I always used to say absolutely yes, and I didn't miss my childhood,because I was a child on the set, and often I was working with otherkids. On the other hand, do I feel like I was too serious, like ...
  
• Portrayed in Team America: World Police (2004)
  
• Salary
• Pictorial "Celebrity Skin" (USA), November 2001, Vol. 23, Iss. 100, pg. 4, "100 Sexiest Celebrities Of All Time Nude! #99 : As Nude As It Gets"
  "Cinema" (Germany), February 2001, Iss. 2, pg. 42-45, by: Robert Erdmann, "Helen Hunt: Portrait"
  "Celebrity Skin" (USA), December 1999, Vol. 21, Iss. 82, pg. 16-17, by: staff, "At Your Request: haunted By Her Dirty Dancing?"
  "Playboy" (USA), November 1998, Vol. 45, Iss. 11, pg. 85, by: Bruce Williamson, "Sex In Cinema 1998"
  "Celebrity Sleuth" (USA), 1998, Vol. 11, Iss. 9, pg. 4-7, by: staff, "Anatomy Awards: This Year's Best Actress"
  "Celebrity Sleuth" (USA), 1997, Vol. 10, Iss. 3, pg. 18-19, by: staff, "The 25 Sexiest Women of 1997 - #21"
  
• Filmography

  Aline & Wolfe (2011) Drama

  Soul Surfer (2011) Sport

  Bobby (2006) History

  Every Day (2010) Drama

  Empire Falls (2005) (TV) Romance

  Then She Found Me (2007) Romance

  Del corto a Hollywood (2008) (TV) Documentary

  Trancers (1985) Sci-Fi

  "Ellen: The Ellen DeGeneres Show" (2003) {(2008-04-29)}

  "Entertainment Tonight" (1981) {(2008-01-04)}