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Helen Elizabeth Hunt (born June 15, 1963) is a talented film and television actress from the United States.
She played Jamie Buchman in the sitcom Crazy About You, for which she won three Golden Globe Awards for Best Actress in a TV Series – Musical or Comedy and four Primetime Emmy Awards for Outstanding Lead Actress.
Due to her creative acting style, she received an Academy Award nomination for Best Actress for her role as Carol Connery in the romantic comedy As Good as It Gets.
Helen Hunt was also nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her role as Cheryl Cohen-Greene in “Drug Store Romance”.
Her other notable films include Twister, Cast Away, I Know Women Want, Pay It Forward, Bobby, Soul Surfer, and Miracle Season.
Helen Hunt’s theatre credits include: Viola in Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night at Lincoln Center, Our Town and Life(x) 3.
She reprised her role as Jamie Buchman in the revival of Crazy About You, which premiered as a limited series on Spectrum Originals.
American actress
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| Name: | Helen Elizabeth Hunt |
| stage name: | Helen Hunt |
| Date of Birth: | June 15, 1963 (61 years old) |
| place of birth: | Culver City, California, United States |
| salary: | $1 million |
| Country of Citizenship: | American |
| high: | 1.7 m |
| parents: | Gordon Hunt, Jane Elizabeth Noveth |
| Brothers and sisters: | Colleen Hunter |
| Husband • Spouse: | Hank Azaria ( m. 1999–2000) |
| Boyfriend and partner: | Matthew Carnahan |
| Children: | Makena Ray Gordon Carnahan |
| Profession: | Actress • Television personality |
| net worth: | $75 million |
early life
Helen Hunt was born on June 15, 1963 into an entertainment family in Culver City, California.
Her mother, Jane Hunt, is a photographer, and her father, Gordon Hunt, is a film, voice-over, stage director and acting coach.
When Helen Hunt was three years old, her family moved to New York City.
Since her father was a theater director in the city, she would go to plays several times a week.
Profession
At the age of nine, Helen Hunt developed a love for acting and landed her first film role in the 1973 television film series The Pioneer Woman, which launched her career.
During this time, she appeared in classic TV movie series such as Swiss Family Robinson, Invincible Woman, and The Mary Tyler Moore Show.
In the mid-to-late 1980s, Helen Hunt frequently appeared in films aimed at teenage audiences, including a major role in The Trance (1984) and a role in Girls Just Want to Have Fun (1985), co-starring with Sarah Jessica Parker. In Francis Ford Coppola’s Peggy Sue Getting Married, she played the daughter of a couple on the verge of divorce.
Awards and nominations
- 1983 Olivier Award for Director of the Year
Personal life
In 1994, Helen Hunt began dating actor Hank Azaria, who also starred in Crazy About You. They married in July 1999 but divorced in August 2000. On December 18, 2000, their divorce was finalized.
Helen Hunt and producer Matthew Carnahan dated for 16 years before splitting in 2017. Their daughter, Makena Rae Gordon Carnahan, was born in May 2004.
She has a sibling named Colleen Hunt.
Net Worth and Salary
Helen Hunt is an American actress, film director, and screenwriter with a net worth of $75 million.
She is best known for her role on the 1990s sitcom Crazy About You.
At the peak of Crazy for You, Helen Hunt was paid $1 million per episode, which made her the highest-paid TV actress in the world for a time, and it is still one of the highest-paid TV actresses per episode.
