Best know for her Academy Award-winning performance as Billy Kwan in The Year of Living Dangerously, Linda Hunt has played an extraordinarily diverse range of characters in films, theatre and television. She began her theatrical career more than thirty years ago at the Long Wharf Theatre in New Haven, CT, playing roles in plays by Shakespeare, Strindberg, O’Neill and Tennessee Williams. She won a Tony nomination for her work in Arthur Kopit’s End of the World and Obie awards for roles in Caryl Churchill’s Top Girls and A Metamorphosis in Miniature, based on the Kafka novel. Her other stage appearances include the title role in Mother Courage and Her Children, Wallace Shawn’s Aunt Dan & Lemon, she originated the role of Aunt Dan in London and in New York, and the Cherry Orchard directed by Peter Brook. She first visited Los Angeles in 1974 to play a small role in Hamlet at the Mark Taper Forum, directed by Gordon Davidson and starring Stacy Keach. At the La Jolla Playhouse she played Dolly Levi in Des McAnuff’s production of The Matchmaker.
She made her film debut in 1980 in Robert Altman’s Popeye. Among her many other films are Dragonfly, Twenty Bucks, Pret a Porter, Kindergarden Cop, Waiting for the Moon, She-Devil, Silverado, The Bostonians and David Lynch’s Dune. For Mr. Altman again, she starred in a television film of Harold Pinter’s The Room and she played Judge Zoey Hiller n ABC’s The Practice for the first six seasons of that show. She is the voice of the Management on HBO’s Carnivale and is frequently heard as the narrator of documentaries for the Discovery Channel, National Geographic, and PBS. In Disney’s Pocahontas she is the voice of Grandmother Willow.
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