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- NAME: Helen Hunt
- OCCUPATION: Film Actress, Television Actress
- BIRTH DATE: June 15, 1963 (Age: 49)
- PLACE OF BIRTH: Culver City, California
- ZODIAC SIGN: Gemini
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Helen Hunt in an Emmy and Academy Award-winning actress best known for her roles in the sitcom Mad About You and the film As Good As It Gets.
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T and the Women, starring Richard Gere; and Cast Away, costarring Tom Hanks and directed by Robert Zemeckis.
In 2001, Hunt costarred opposite writer-director Woody Allen in Allen's The Curse of the Jade Scorpion, a 1940s-era detective comedy also featuring Dan Ackroyd and Charlize Theron.
Recent Projects
In 2007, Hunt made her directorial film debut with Then She Found Me. She also starred in the dramatic comedy along with Matthew Broderick, Bette Midler and Colin Firth. Hunt played a supporting role in the 2011 true-life story Soul Surfer with Dennis Quaid. She and Quaid appeared as the parents of a young female surfer who loses her arm in a shark attack.
In 2012, Hunt returned to directing. This time to helm an episode of Californication starring David Duchovny. She also starred in the well-received independent drama The Sessions opposite John Hawkes. In the film, Hunt plays a sex therapist who works with a man in a iron lung. The movie picked up two awards at the Sundance Film Film Festival.
Personal Life
Hunt, who previously dated her Project X costar Matthew Broderick, married her longtime boyfriend, actor Hank Azaria, in July 1999. The couple separated in August 2000 and later divorced. In May 2004, Hunt and her beau, writer-producer Matthew Carnahan, welcomed a baby girl named Makena Lei.
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