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BIOGRAPHY
Helen Elizabeth Hunt was born June 15, 1963 to Gordon and Jane Hunt. Her father is a director and acting coach, and her mother is a photographer. Hunt decided she wanted to be an actress when she was six years old. Her debut performance on television was on THE MARY TYLER MOORE SHOW as Murray Slaughter's daughter. She then landed a television role in the movie PIONEER WOMEN at the age of ten. From then on she acted in successive television movies, series and Hollywood films.
After years of steady employment on television and in film, she was offered the role as Jamie Buchman on a new sitcom Paul Reiser was working on, MAD ABOUT YOU. The show first aired in 1992, and the following year Hunt received her first Golden Globe for Best Actress in a TV Series. She won two more Golden Globes and an Emmy for the role before the show went off the air in 1999. Hunt continued to work in film during her seven year stint on MAD ABOUT YOU, and in 1997 she received both an Academy Award and a Golden Globe for her starring role in AS GOOD AS IT GETS. She is currently working on several film projects for her production company, Hunt/Tavel, which she formed with business partner, Connie Tavel. She lives in southern California with her husband, Hank Azaria.
CHRONOLOGY
1963 She was born in Culver City, California. (June 15)
1966 She moved with her family moved to New York.
1972 She moved with her family to Los Angeles.; She enrolled in acting class.
1973 PIONEER WOMEN - television movie
1974 AMY PRENTISS - television series
1975 SWISS FAMILY ROBINSON - television series; ALL TOGETHER NOW, DEATH SCREAM - television movies
1976 HAVING BABIES - television movie
1977 THE FITZPATRICKS - television series; ROLLERCOASTER - film
1979 TRANSPLANT - television movie
1981 Her parents divorced.; ANGEL DUSTED, I THINK I'M HAVING A BABY, THE BEST LITTLE GIRL IN THE WORLD - films
1982 IT TAKES TWO, ST. ELSEWHERE - television series
1983 QUARTERBACK PRINCESS - television movie
1985 TRANCERS, GIRLS JUST WANT TO HAVE FUN, WAITING TO ACT - films
1986 PEGGY SUE GOT MARRIED - film
1987 PROJECT X - film
1988 STEALING HOME, THE FROG PRINCE, MILES FROM HOME, DARKROOM - films
1989 OUR TOWN - Broadway; NEXT OF KIN- film; INCIDENT AT DARK RIVER - television movie
1990 THE TAMING OF THE SHREW - Shakespeare in the Park
1991 MY LIFE AND TIMES, INTO THE BADLANDS - television movies; TRANCERS II - film
1992 "MAD ABOUT YOU" - television sit-com; BOB ROBERTS, ONLY YOU, THE WATERDANCE, MR. SATURDAY NIGHT, TRANCERS III - films
1993 Golden Globe for Best Actress in a TV Series - MAD ABOUT YOU; SEXUAL HEALING - film
1994 Golden Globe for Best Actress in a TV Series - MAD ABOUT YOU
1995 KISS OF DEATH - film
1996 Emmy for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series, Golden Globe for Best Actress in a TV Series - MAD ABOUT YOU; TWISTER - film
1997 AS GOOD AS IT GETS - film; Emmy for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series - MAD ABOUT YOU; Golden Globe for Best Actress in a Motion Picture, Academy Award for Best Actress. AS GOOD AS IT GETS
1998 Emmy for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series - MAD ABOUT YOU; TWELFTH NIGHT - Broadway
1999 She married Hank Azaria. (July 17); The final episode of MAD ABOUT YOU aired.
2000 PAY IT FORWARD, CAST AWAY, WHAT WOMEN WANT, DR. T AND THE WOMEN, FROM ALICE TO OCEAN - films
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