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Linda Hunt

  • Birthplace: Morristown, New Jersey, USA
  • Birthday: April 2, 1945

Despite her diminutive 4-foot, 9-inch frame, actress Linda Hunt emerged as a prominent, Oscar-winning performer in only her second film, playing doomed Chinese-Australian photojournalist, Billy Kwan, in Peter Weir's "The Year of Living Dangerously" (1982), which marked the first time in Academy Award history that an actor won for playing a character of the opposite sex. Her triumphant win led to a Tony-nominated performance in Arthur Kopit's "End of the World" (1983) and a supporting role as a saloon keep in the rev…more

Career Milestones

  • 2009

    Cast as Hetty Lange on CBS' "NCIS: Los Angeles"

  • 2006

    Co-starred, opposite Will Ferrell, in the Marc Forster comedy, "Stranger Than Fiction"

  • 2005

    Co-starred with Dennis Quaid and Rene Russo in the remake of "Yours, Mine and Ours"

  • 2005

    Portrayed Sister Aloysius in the Pasadena Playhouse production of John Patrick Shanley's "Doubt"

  • 2003 to 2005

    Lent her voice to the mysterious Management in the HBO original series, "Carnivàle"

Awards

  • 1994

    National Board of Review Award: Best Acting by an Ensemble

  • 1984

    Academy Award: Best Actress in a Supporting Role

  • 1984

    Boston Society of Film Critics Award: Best Supporting Actress

  • 1983

    Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award: Best Supporting Actress

  • 1983

    National Board of Review Award: Best Supporting Actress