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Helen Hunt
Actress
Female
Born
Jun 15, 1963
Age
49
Hometown
Culver City, Cali...
Other Names
Hunt, Helen Eliza...
Helen Elizabeth Hunt is an American actress, film director, and screenwriter. She starred in the sitcom, Mad About You, for seven years before being cast in the 1997 romantic comedy film, As Good as It Gets for which she won the Academy Award for Best… Read More
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Helen Hunt
Age 49
parents
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Jane Elizabeth (née Novis)Mother
children
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Makena Lei Gordon CarnahanSon, Age 9
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Timeline
Learn about the memorable moments in the evolution of Helen Hunt.
CHILDHOOD
1963
Birth
Born on June 15, 1963.
TEENAGE

1982
19 Years Old
Hunt also played 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).
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TWENTIES

1985
22 Years Old
She also starred in the 1985 film Girls Just Wanna Have Fun, with Sarah Jessica Parker and Shannen Doherty.
THIRTIES

1996
33 Years Old
In the 1990s, after playing the lead female role in the short-lived My Life and Times, Hunt starred in the series Mad About You, winning Emmy Awards for her performances in 1996, 1997, 1998, and 1999.

1997
34 Years Old
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She starred in the sitcom, Mad About You, for seven years before being cast in the 1997 romantic comedy film, As Good as It Gets for which she won the Academy Award for Best Actress.
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1998
35 Years Old
In 1998, Hunt won an Academy Award for Best Actress for her portrayal of Carol Connelly in the movie As Good as It Gets; the character is a waitress and single mother who finds herself falling in love with Melvin Udall, an obsessive-compulsive romance novelist played by Jack Nicholson.
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2000
37 Years Old
In 2000, Hunt starred 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.
FORTIES
2003
40 Years Old
In 2003, she returned to Broadway in Yasmina Reza's Life x 3.

2006
43 Years Old
In 2006, Hunt appeared in the ensemble cast film Bobby alongside Demi Moore, Anthony Hopkins, Sharon Stone and William H. Macy.
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