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Helen Hunt
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Helen Elizabeth Hunt (born June 15, 1963) is an American actress and director. She is the recipient of numerous accolades, including an Academy Award, four Primetime Emmy Awards, and four Golden Globe Awards. Hunt rose to fame in 1992, portraying Jamie Buchman in the sitcom Mad About You which earned her three Golden Globe Awards for Best Actress and four Primetime Emmy Awards for Lead Actress. In 1997, Hunt won the Academy Award for Best Actress for starring as Carol Connelly in the romantic comedy As Good as It Gets, while her portrayal of Cheryl Cohen-Greene in The Sessions (2012), gained her a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. Her other notable films include Twister (1996), Cast Away (2000), What Women Want (2000), Pay It Forward (2000), Bobby (2006), Soul Surfer (2011), and The Miracle Season (2018). Hunt made her directorial film debut with Then She Found Me (2007), and has directed the film Ride (2014), and episodes of television series, including House of Lies, This Is Us, Feud: Bette and Joan, American Housewife, and the premiere episode of the Mad About You revival. Description above from the Wikipedia article Helen Hunt, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Helen Elizabeth Hunt (born June 15, 1963) is an American actress and director. She is the recipient of numerous accolades, including an Academy Award, four Primetime Emmy Awards, and four Golden Globe Awards. Hunt rose to fame in 1992, portraying Jamie Buchman in the sitcom Mad About You which earned her three Golden Globe Awards for Best Actress and four Primetime Emmy Awards for Lead Actress. In 1997, Hunt won the Academy Award for Best Actress for starring as Carol Connelly in the romantic comedy As Good as It Gets, while her portrayal of Cheryl Cohen-Greene in The Sessions (2012), gained her a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. Her other notable films include Twister (1996), Cast Away (2000), What Women Want (2000), Pay It Forward (2000), Bobby (2006), Soul Surfer (2011), and The Miracle Season (2018). Hunt made her directorial film debut with Then She Found Me (2007), and has directed the film Ride (2014), and episodes of television series, including House of Lies, This Is Us, Feud: Bette and Joan, American Housewife, and the premiere episode of the Mad About You revival. Description above from the Wikipedia article Helen Hunt, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Late Night with Conan O'Brien
The Oscars
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
The Kelly Clarkson Show
Friends
Highway to Heaven
Saturday Night Live
Knots Landing
St. Elsewhere
The Mary Tyler Moore Show
Hacks
The Hitchhiker
China Beach
The Late Late Show with James Corden
Late Night with David Letterman
Gimme a Break!
Who Do You Think You Are?
The Larry Sanders Show
The Simpsons
The Facts of Life
CBS Afternoon Playhouse
The Electric State
Peggy Sue Got Married
Bob Roberts
Amend: The Fight for America
The Trials of Rosie O'Neill
Blindspotting
Candy Jar
Ark II
The Fitzpatricks
The Night Clerk
Into the Badlands
World on Fire
Empire Falls
Pay It Forward
Project X
Amy Prentiss
Mad About You
Cast Away
As Good as It Gets
What Women Want
Girls Just Want to Have Fun
Twister
Quarterback Princess
I See You
In the Company of Darkness
Production Credits
Californication
FEUD
Mad About You
Life in Pieces
American Housewife
This Is Us
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