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Linda Hunt, born Lydia Susanna Hunt (April 2, 1945) is an American actress of stage and screen. She made her film debut playing Mrs. Oxheart in Popeye (1980). Her portrayal of the male character Billy Kwan in The Year of Living Dangerously (1982) won her the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress, making her the first and, as of 2024, the only person to win an Oscar for portraying a ...
It also stars Linda Hunt as a Chinese-Australian man with dwarfism, Billy Kwan, Hamilton's local photographer contact, a role for which Hunt won the 1983 Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. [6]
Fans of two-time Teen Choice: Action Actress (and Academy Award) winner Linda Hunt will have to wait a while longer to see Hetty back on NCIS: Los Angeles. As the COVID pandemic raged, Hunt only ...
Linda Hunt won for portraying a cisgender male in The Year of Living Dangerously (1983). Peggy Ashcroft won for A Passage to India (1984); this category's oldest winner , at age 77. Anjelica Huston won for Prizzi's Honor (1985).
[9] [a] Linda Hunt is the only person to win an Oscar for playing a character of the opposite sex. [11] Best Original Song co-winner Irene Cara became the first black woman to win an Oscar in a non-acting category. [12]
It also stars Linda Hunt, Roger Rees, Robin Bartlett, and Gabrielle Anwar. The film was theatrically released in the United States on March 15, 1991, by Warner Bros. It received mixed reviews from critics and was a box-office bomb, grossing only $7.7 million against a $12 million budget.
Waiting for the Moon is a 1987 internationally co-produced drama film starring Linda Hunt, Linda Bassett, Bernadette Lafont, Bruce McGill, Jacques Boudet and Andrew McCarthy. [2] The film was written by Mark Magill and directed by Jill Godmilow. [3]
Melissa Joan Hart (born 1976), actress; Mariette Hartley (born 1940), actress; Linda Hunt (born 1945), actress; Mar Jennings (born 1975), television personality, author and philanthropist; Patricia Kalember (born 1957), actress; Brian Keane (born 1953), Emmy-winning composer; Kerri Kenney-Silver (born 1970), actress, singer, writer and daughter ...