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How Oscars Ruin a Marriage

Daily Beast - Found Mar. 17, 2010
Ditto for Helen Hunt and Hank Azaria; and sweethearts (but not married) Julia Roberts and Benjamin Bratt.

Posted on March 17, 2010, 12:55 pm

What Was Up With Judd Nelson's Creepy Oscar Appearance?

E! Online - Found Mar. 8, 2010
Adrien Brody and Helen Hunt spring to mind. ?Dan C., via Facebook Oh, don't stop there.
What Was Up With Judd Nelson's Creepy Oscar Appearance? - E! Online
What Was Up With Judd Nelson's Creepy Oscar Appearance? - EOnline.com
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Posted on March 8, 2010, 2:15 am

The singer willstar opposite Dennis Quaid and Helen Hunt in the ...

Knix Country - Found Feb. 4, 2010
... big break in new movie "Soul Surfer." The singer will head to Hawaii to star opposite Dennis Quaid and Helen Hunt in the biopic of teen wave...

Posted on February 4, 2010, 11:16 am

Review: 'The Runaways'

K5k6 Live and Local - Found 5 hours ago
... we witness her morphing into that with this film. I can only think of Jodie Foster, Helen Hunt, and Brooke Shields who did that well.
Stewart, Fanning glam it up in ?Runaways? - MSNBC
Joan Jett has advice for Lady Gaga - CNN
Joan Jett, Cherie Currie Offer Lady Gaga Advice on Longevity - People
Review: 'Runaways' rocks, mostly - CNN
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Louisville Courier-Journal

Posted on March 19, 2010, 9:15 am

Is there a Best Actress relationship curse?

KHQ Right Now - Found 7 hours ago
... and first husband Harmon Nelson) to the '70s (Barbra Streisand and Elliott Gould) to the turn of the millennium (Helen Hunt and Hank Azaria).
Is there a Best Actress relationship curse? - WMBF
Is there a Best Actress relationship curse? - KIVI-TV
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WMBF

Posted on March 19, 2010, 6:57 am

Dispelling Sandra Bullock's "Oscar curse"

Salon - Found 6 hours ago
In addition to Bullock and Winslet, Jane Wyman, Reese Witherspoon, Halle Berry, Hilary Swank and Helen Hunt all got divorced within a couple...
Kate Winslet Pulls a Bullock - EOnline.com
The "Oscar Curse," Real or Hollywood Invention? - ABC News
Kate Winslet Pulls a Bullock - E! Online
The "Oscar curse," real or Hollywood invention? - Reuters
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Reuters India

Posted on March 19, 2010, 8:13 am

Sandra Bullock and Jesse James Split Revives 'Oscar Curse'

Associated Content - Found 12 hours ago
... the Oscar curse victims include Hillary Swank - who only lost Chad Lowe after her second win - Helen Hunt, Gwyneth Paltrow, Reese Witherspoon...
Video: Bullock blindsided by affair - MSNBC
Weekend Movie Poll! Gerard or Jude or K.Stew? - E! Online
McGee's Shocking Shoot - FOXNews.com
Michelle 'Bombshell' McGee emerges on Twitter? - USA Today
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CBS 4 Denver

Posted on March 19, 2010, 2:17 am

PuppetMaster, Axis of Evil. DVD & Blu Ray Collectors Trunk, 20th ...

FinancialWire - Found 22 hours ago
... with him BEFORE they were stars in their own right: Demi Moore, Sam Raimi, Viggo Mortenson, Helen Hunt, Kelly Preston, Mariska Hargitay and...
'Avatar' to be released on DVD, but not in 3-D - Denver Post
DVD reviews | 'Princess' gets the royal treatment with Blu-ray ... - Miami Herald
Book of Eli Read - IGN.com
Blu-rays Missing in Action - IGN.com
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Miami Herald

Posted on March 19, 2010, 3:42 am

Is There a Best Actress Relationship Curse?

Seattle Post Intelligencer - Found Mar. 18, 2010
... and first husband Harmon Nelson) to the '70s (Barbra Streisand and Elliott Gould) to the turn of the millennium (Helen Hunt and Hank Azaria).

Posted on March 18, 2010, 5:51 am

Review: 'The Runaways'

Lite Rock Kiss - Found Mar. 18, 2010
... we witness her morphing into that with this film. I can only think of Jodie Foster, Helen Hunt, and Brooke Shields who did that well.
The Runaways: Band of Sisters - Time
Proving Their Mettle in the Men-Only Era of Rock - New York Times
Kristen Stewart's Red Carpet Talk: This Dress Was "Funner" - EOnline.com
Katie Couric:'Let's move on' from Tiger; Marie and Donny cancel ... - USA Today
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Monsters and Critics

Posted on March 18, 2010, 4:04 am

Helen Hunt Biography

Helen Hunt
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Helen Hunt

at the 2007 Toronto International Film Festival
Born Helen Elizabeth Hunt
June 15, 1963 (1963-06-15) (age 46)
Culver City, California, U.S.
Occupation Actor, director, screenwriter
Years active 1973–present
Spouse(s) Hank Azaria (1999–2000)
Domestic partner(s) Matthew Carnahan (2001–present)

Helen Elizabeth Hunt (born June 15, 1963) is an American actress, film director, and screenwriter. She starred in the sitcom Mad About You for seven years, before being cast in the romantic comedy As Good As It Gets, for which she won the Academy Award for Best Actress. Some of her other Hollywood credits include Twister, Cast Away, What Women Want and Pay It Forward. She made her directorial debut in 2008 with Then She Found Me.

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Early life

Hunt was born in Culver City, California, the daughter of Jane Elizabeth (née Novis), a photographer, and Gordon Hunt, a film director and acting coach.12 Her uncle, Peter H. Hunt, is also a director, and her maternal grandmother, Dorothy Fries (née Anderson) was a voice coach.13 Hunt is of Jewish (from her paternal grandmother)4 and Methodist background.5 She spent part of her childhood in New York City and later attended the University of California at Los Angeles.6

Career

Hunt began working in the 1970s as a child actress. 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, and a regular role in the television series The Swiss Family Robinson. She appeared as a marijuana-smoking classmate on an episode of The Facts of Life. She also appeared as a young woman who, while on PCP, jumps out of a second-story window in a 1982 after school special called Desperate Lives (a scene which she mocked during a Saturday Night Live monologue in 1994).7 In the mid-1980s, she had a recurring role on St. Elsewhere as Clancy Williams, girlfriend of Dr. Jack "Boomer" Morrison. She remains well known for one of her earliest roles as Jennie in Bill: On His Own, costarring Mickey Rooney.

Hunt in 1994, before the Emmy rehearsal

In the 1990s, after the lead female role in the short-lived My Life and Times, Hunt became well-known to television audiences in Mad About You, winning Emmy Awards for her performance in 1996, 1997, 1998, and 1999.

In 1998 Hunt won an Academy Award for Best Actress for her portrayal of Carol Connelly, a waitress and single mother who finds herself falling in love with Melvin Udall, an obsessive-compulsive romance novelist played by Jack Nicholson in the movie As Good as It Gets. After winning the Academy Award she took time off from movie work to play Viola in Shakespeare's Twelfth Night at Lincoln Center in New York City.8

In 2000, Hunt returned to the screen in four films: Dr. T & the Women with Richard Gere, Pay It Forward with Kevin Spacey and Haley Joel Osment, What Women Want with Mel Gibson, and Cast Away with Tom Hanks. In 2003, she returned to Broadway in Yasmina Reza's Life x 3.8 Hunt was also a final candidate for the role of "Clarice Starling" in Hannibal, after Jodie Foster decided not to reprise her Oscar winning role from The Silence of the Lambs. However, Hunt lost the role to Julianne Moore at the last minute. In 2006, Hunt appeared in a small role in the film Bobby.

Hunt is a director, having helmed several episodes of Mad About You, including the series finale. Her big-screen directorial debut came with the film Then She Found Me, in which she also starred.1

She currently owns a production company with Connie Tavel, Hunt/Tavel Productions under Sony Pictures Entertainment.1

Personal life

Hunt dated actor Hank Azaria for five years, then was married to him from 1999 until 2000.1 She briefly dated fellow actor Kevin Spacey in 2000.9 She has been in a relationship with Matthew Carnahan since 2001 and they have a daughter, Makena Lei Gordon Carnahan, born in 2004.110

Filmography and awards

Helen Hunt has been recognized extensively in her career. In 1998 she became the second actress (after Liza Minnelli) to win a Golden Globe Award, an Academy Award and an Emmy Award in the same year (Helen Mirren subsequently did so in 2006) . Hunt was nominated for an Emmy Award for lead actress in a comedy seven years in a row, from 1993 through 1999, winning in the last four years.11

Television

Year Title Role Notes
1974 Amy Prentiss Jill Prentiss
1975 The Swiss Family Robinson Helga
1982 It Takes Two Lisa Quinn
1977 The Fitzpatricks Kerry Gerardi
1978 The Bionic Woman Princess Aura
1984-1986 St. Elsewhere Clancy Williams
1991 My Life and Times Rebecca Miller
1992-1999 Mad About You Jamie Stemple Buchman Emmy Award - 7 nominations (1993-1999), 4 wins (1996-1999)
Golden Globe - 6 nominations (1993 - 1998), 3 wins (1994, 1995, 1997); Screen Actors Guild Award - 1995
1995 Friends Jamie Buchman
2005 Empire Falls Janine Roby

Films

Year Film Role Notes
1973 Pioneer Woman Sarah Sargeant Made for TV
1975 Death Scream Teila Rodriguez Made for TV
All Together Now Susan Lindsay Made for TV
1976 Having Babies Sharon McNamara Made for TV
1977 The Spell Kristina Matchett Made for TV
Rollercoaster Tracy Calder
1979 Transplant Janice Hurley Made for TV
1981 Child Bride of Short Creek Naomi Made for TV
CBS Afternoon Playhouse Phoebe I Think I'm Having a Baby
The Best Little Girl in the World Made for TV
Angel Dusted Lizzie Eaton Made for TV
The Miracle of Kathy Miller Kathy Miller Made for TV
1982 Desperate Lives Sandy Cameron Made for TV
1983 Bill: On His Own Jenny Wells Made for TV
Quarterback Princess Tami Maida Made for TV
Choices of the Heart Cathy Made for TV
1984 Sweet Revenge Debbie Markham Made for TV
1985 Trancers Leena
Waiting to Act Tracy
Girls Just Want to Have Fun Lynne Stone
1986 The Nativity Mary voice
Peggy Sue Got Married Beth Bodell
1987 Project X Teri
1988 Shooter Tracey Made for TV
Miles from Home Jennifer
Stealing Home Hope Wyatt (adult and pregnant)
The Frog Prince Princess Henrietta
1989 Incident at Dark River Jesse McCandless Made for TV
Next of Kin Jessie Gates
1991 Murder in New Hampshire: The Pamela Wojas Smart Story Pamela Smart Made for TV
Trancers II Lena Deth
Into the Badlands Blossom Made for TV
1992 The Waterdance Anna
Only You Clare Enfield
Mr. Saturday Night Annie Wells
Bob Roberts Rose Pondell
Trancers III Lena
1993 Sexual Healing Rene
In the Company of Darkness Gina Pulasky Made for TV
1995 Kiss of Death Bev Kilmartin
1996 Twister Dr. Jo Harding (Adult)
1997 As Good as It Gets Carol Connelly Academy Award for Best Actress
Golden Globe
Screen Actors Guild Award
1998 Twelfth Night Made for TV
2000 Dr. T & the Women Bree
What Women Want Darcy McGuire
Pay It Forward Arlene McKinney
Cast Away Kelly Frears
2001 One Night at McCool's Truck driver scenes deleted
The Curse of the Jade Scorpion Betty Ann Fitzgerald
2005 A Good Woman Mrs. Erlynne
2006 Bobby Samantha Stevens
2007 Then She Found Me April Epner Also co-screenwriter, producer & director
2009 Every Day Jeannie (post-production)
2011 Soul Surfer (Filming)

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