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Famous as :

Actress

Birth Name :

Helen Elizabeth Hunt

Birth Date :

June 15, 1963

Birth Place :

Culver City, California

Spouse :

Hank Azaria (actor, July 17, 1999 - Dec 2000)

Claim to fame :

As Jamie Buchman in NBC sitcom "Mad About You" (1992 - 1999)

Biography


by AceShowbiz.com

Miller, who have been waiting to earn their place in meteorogical history. Each team wants to be the first to launch their equipments. Thanks to her outstanding performance in “The Waterdance” that she gloriously secured the role of Dr. Jo Harding. After that, she added Oscar to her collection through “As Good as It Gets” (1997). Together with Jack Nicholson, Cuba Gooding Jr. and Greg Kinnear, Hunt brought triumph to this movie. The character Carol Connelly was splendidly presented by Hunt, and her first Oscar did play a trick on her career. She said “On a professional level, an Oscar means that your salary suddenly increases by a few million and you get offered a lot more movies which in the past you had to beg to have a chance to read for.”

While nurturing her film resume and bank account, Hunt also taking her relationship with boyfriend Hank Azaria a step forward. On July 17, 1999 the couple got married, but a year later they abducted the marriage vows. She moved to New York to do Shakespeare's “Twelfth Night” as Viola at the Lincoln Centre, New York City. At the same time, she began dating producer, writer and also ...

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director Matthew Carnahan. Although the pair is not married, they have a daughter uniquely named Makena' Lei Gordon Carnahan, born on May 13, 2004. The name was inspired by a friend's dream, which means 'many flowers of heaven', and the middle name is an honor to Hunt's father, Gordon Hunt.

Still busy with her job, the year 2000 was probably the most notorious year for Hunt. She scored combos in blockbusters “Dr T and the Women” opposite Richard Gere, “Cast Away” with Tom Hanks, “Pay It Forward” with Kevin Spacey and “What Women Want” with Mel Gibson. She afterwards attained a not-huge character as Betty Ann Fitzgerald in “The Curse of the Jade Scorpion” (2001) which was written and directed by the well known Woody Allen. One more big project entitled “Bobby” (2006) came along. Tells the assassination of U.S. senator Robert F. Kennedy, the flick reunites Hunt with other notable actors and actresses, such as Anthony Hopkins, Sharon Stone, Laurence Fishburne and Lindsay Lohan. For a new job, Hunt decided to write and direct her own movie “Then She Found Me” (2006) where she recruited Diane Keaton alongside her own role.

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