Helen hunt actor biography

Helen Elizabeth Hunt born June 15, is an American actress and director. Hunt made her directorial film debut with Then She Found Me Helen Hunt was born in Culver City, California. Hunt , was also a director.

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When she was three, Hunt's family moved to New York City , where her father directed theatre and Hunt attended plays as a child several times a week. Hunt began working as a child actress in the s. In , Hunt played a young woman who, while on PCP , jumps out of a second-story window, in a made-for-television film called Desperate Lives a scene which she mocked during a Saturday Night Live monologue in , [ 11 ] and she was cast on the ABC sitcom It Takes Two , which lasted only one season.

She also had a recurring role on St. Elsewhere as Clancy Williams, the girlfriend of Jack "Boomer" Morrison David Morse , and had a notable guest appearance as a cancer-stricken mother-to-be in a two-part episode of Highway to Heaven.

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By the mid and late s, Hunt had begun appearing in studio films aimed at a teenage audience. Her first major film role was that of a punk rock girl in the sci-fi film Trancers In , Hunt starred with Matthew Broderick in Project X , as a graduate student assigned to care for chimpanzees used in a secret Air Force project. Next of Kin featured her as the pregnant wife of a respectable lawman, opposite Patrick Swayze and Liam Neeson.

In , she would appear in the drama The Waterdance as a married woman having an affair with a writer; in the romantic comedy Only You , as a travel agent and the love interest of a doll's house designer; in the mockumentary Bob Roberts , as Rose Pondell, a field reporter at WLNO; and in Mr. Saturday Night , as a young agent named Annie Well.

Hunt came to prominence in North America with the sitcom Mad About You —99 , in which she starred opposite Paul Reiser , as a public relations specialist and one half of a couple in NYC.