Linda Hunt

Linda Hunt

Linda Hunt

02.04.1945 (79 years) (Morristown, New Jersey, USA)

Lydia Susanna Hunt (born April 2, 1945), better known by her stage name Linda Hunt, is an American film, stage, and television actress. After making her film debut playing Mrs. Oxheart in Popeye (1980), Hunt's breakthrough came playing the male character Billy Kwan in The Year of Living Dangerously (1982), for which she won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress, becoming the first person to win an Oscar portraying a character of the opposite sex. She has had great success in films such as The Bostonians (1984), Dune (1984), Silverado (1985), Eleni (1985), Waiting for the Moon (1987), She-Devil (1989), Kindergarten Cop (1990), If Looks Could Kill (1991), Rain Without Thunder (1992), Twenty Bucks (1993), Younger and Younger (1993), Prêt-à-Porter (1994), Pocahontas (1995), The Relic (1997), Pocahontas II: Journey to a New World (1998), Dragonfly (2002), Yours Mine and Ours (2005), and Stranger than Fiction (2006). Hunt has also had a successful television career. She played Rose in the television movie Basements (1987) and narrated in the television movie The New Chimpanzees. She guest-starred on Hallmark Hall of Fame in both 1978 and 1987, Space Rangers in 1993, Carnivale in both 2003 and 2005, Without a Trace in 2008, The Unit in 2008, and Nip Tuck in 2009. From 1997 to 2002, Hunt played the recurring role of Judge Zoey Hiller on The Practice. She currently portrays Henrietta "Hetty" Lange on the CBS television series NCIS: Los Angeles, a role she has held since the 2009 debut, for which she has received two Teen Choice Awards. She is also the narrator in the God of War video game franchise.

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Cast

Dragonfly (2015)

IMDB: 6.3 (41 votes)
And the Oscar Goes To... (2014)

IMDB: 7.1 (1491 votes)
Year One (2009)

IMDB: 4.9 (99882 votes)
Yours, Mine & Ours (2005)

IMDB: 5.4 (29234 votes)
Out of the Past (1998)

IMDB: 7.1 (191 votes)
Eat Your Heart Out (1997)

IMDB: 5.7 (302 votes)
The Relic (1997)

IMDB: 5.8 (23494 votes)
Ready to Wear (1994)

IMDB: 5.1 (14037 votes)
Younger and Younger (1993)

IMDB: 5.3 (431 votes)
Twenty Bucks (1993)

IMDB: 6.3 (3485 votes)
Kindergarten Cop (1990)

IMDB: 6.1 (130178 votes)
Silverado (1985)

IMDB: 7.2 (35516 votes)
Dune (1984)

IMDB: 6.5 (122804 votes)