Linda Hunt(I)

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Academy Award winner Linda Hunt narrates a day in the life of Sharon as she struggles with her divorce and it's surreal aftermath. A visually stunning adaptation of Betty Malicoat's short story of the same name.

Part live action, part animation, 'The Crooked Eye' dreamily weaves between past and present, delicately painting a psychological portrait of a troubled woman.

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The Crooked Eye (2009)

Linda Hunt is a veteran character actress who had only just begun acting in motion pictures when director Peter Weir required her peculiarities to animate one of cinema's most esoteric characters, Billy Kwan, the intellectual and virtuous Chinese-Australian dwarf and photographer, in the Australian romantic drama, Rakkaus veitsenterällä (1982). Hunt's work in the film earned an Oscar, among many critic awards, all for Best Supporting Actress.

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Won 1 Oscar
- 12 wins & 5 nominations total

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Linda Hunt and Linda Bassett in Waiting for the Moon (1987)

Linda Hunt and Dave Chapman in Solo: A Star Wars Story (2018)

Linda Hunt, LL Cool J, Eric Christian Olsen, and Daniela Ruah in NCIS Los Angeles (2009)

Linda Hunt and Long Nguyen in NCIS Los Angeles (2009)

Chris O'Donnell, Linda Hunt, LL Cool J, Eric Christian Olsen, Daniela Ruah, Barrett Foa, and Renée Felice Smith in NCIS Los Angeles (2009)

Miguel Ferrer, Linda Hunt, Barrett Foa, and Renée Felice Smith in NCIS Los Angeles (2009)

Known for:

Rakkaus veitsenterällä

7.1

Billy Kwan

1982

Pocahontas

6.7

Grandmother Willow(voice)

1995

Arnold Schwarzenegger, Robert Cave, Christian Cousins, Joseph Cousins, Ben Diskin, Miko Hughes, Sarah Rose Karr, Tom Kurlander, Ross Malinger, and Adam Wylie in Lastentarhan kyttä (1990)

Lastentarhan kyttä

6.2

Miss Schlowski

1990

Silverado

7.2

Stella

1985

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Actress

NCIS Los Angeles
6.8
TV Series
- Hetty Lange
- 2009–2023
Solo: A Star Wars Story
6.9
- Lady Proxima (voice)
- 2018
The Relationtrip
5.7
- Dr. Lipschweiss
- 2017
Baby
5.6
Short
- Wildlife Narrator
- 2015
Scorpion
7.0
TV Series
- Hetty Lange
- 2014
God of War: Ascension
7.8
Video Game
- Narrator (voice)
- 2013
Blood Moon
5.8
Short
- Narrator (voice)
- 2013
God of War: Ghost of Sparta
8.4
Video Game
- Narrator (voice)
- 2010
God of War III
9.1
Video Game
- Narrator (voice)
- 2010
Muodon vuoksi
7.7
TV Series
- Voice of Authority
- 2009
The Crooked Eye
6.4
Short
- Sharon's Narrator
- 2009
Kasvottomat sotilaat
8.1
TV Series
- Dr. Eudora Hobbs
- 2007–2008
Ilman johtolankaa
7.0
TV Series
- Dr. Clare Bryson
- 2008
Once Upon a Tide
6.6
Short
- Narrator
- 2008
God of War: Chains of Olympus
8.3
Video Game
- Narrator (voice)
- 2008

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Height
- 1.45 m
Born
- April 2, 1945
- Morristown, New Jersey, USA
Spouse
- Karen Klein2008 - present
Parents
Other works
Prominent on New York and other stages. Appeared in Peter Brooks' THE CHERRY ORCHARD at Brooklyn Academy of Music in the late 1980s, and starred as Aunt Dan in AUNT DAN AND LEMON on Broadway in the mid 1980s.

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Trivia
The first actor to have won an Academy Award portraying a member of the opposite sex, she won the Best Actress in a Supporting Role Oscar for her role as Billy Kwan in Rakkaus veitsenterällä (1982). Note this was not Linda Hunt playing a woman pretending to be a man, like Barbra Streisand did in Jentl (1983) or, in reverse, as Dustin Hoffman did in Tootsie - lyömätön lyyli (1982), but Hunt playing a man in a serious drama.

Quotes
Everybody either wanted to take care of me or push me around, you know? I was teased a lot, sure I was, of course. Fourth grade, fifth grade, sixth grade, everybody was taking their spurts except me. I was not growing up.