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Helen Hunt was born in Culver City, California. Her father was director and acting coach Gordon Hunt, and Helen started acting when she was a child. Her first role was in the TV movie Pioneer Woman (1973). She made many appearances in TV movies and shows for years and was cast in the sitcom It Takes Two (1982). She also appeared in feature films such as Peggy Sue Got Married (1986) and Project X (1987).

From 1992 to 1999, Hunt starred in the sitcom Mad About You (1992), winning four Emmy Awards for Lead Actress in a Comedy Series. She also found success in movies during this time. She starred in the film Twister (1996) and then won an Academy Award for Best Actress for her performance in As Good as It Gets (1997). In 2000, she starred in Pay It Forward (2000), What Women Want (2000), and Cast Away (2000).

Hunt made her directorial debut with the film Then She Found Me (2007). She was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress after her performance in The Sessions (2012).

To tell you the truth, I don&#39;t have any expensive tastes. I&#39;m just as
happy going to a beach and sitting in the sun today as I was ten years
ago. I wouldn&#39;t feel comfortable if I drove there in a Bentley
convertible.

I&#39;m not very sexy or glamorous! I have this girl next door kind of look
and I have to do the best I can with that.

On a professional level, an Oscar means that your salary suddenly
increases by a few million and you get offered a lot more movies which
in the past you had to beg to have a chance to read for.

You&#39;re not in control of anything. You&#39;re not even like a painter, who
can say &quot;I&#39;m just going to go into my studio and do my work, and if
nobody wants to buy it, well, maybe they will when I&#39;m dead&quot;. You can&#39;t
even do that. You&#39;re waiting for somebody to hand you a part. You&#39;re in
this wildly dependent position.

Not having incredible success for a long time probably helped. Of
course some 20-year-old beautiful girl, who goes from barely acting to
being on the cover [of magazines] ... that&#39;s going to be disorienting
and confusing, and people can&#39;t really be surprised if they have a
skewed perspective of their importance in the world, when everyone
comes together and tells them they&#39;re the most important thing in the
world, then hates them for believing it. I didn&#39;t go through that. So
that was lucky.

I always used to say absolutely yes, and I didn&#39;t miss my childhood,
because I was a child on the set, and often I was working with other
kids. On the other hand, do I feel like I was too serious, like I had
this vocation?

My no-good Hollywood liberalism, you mean? I don&#39;t know what the right
thing to do is. All I know is that when it&#39;s a month before the
election, and there are issues that mean so much to me, and someone
says &quot;Put your name and your face on this, it might help&quot;, I am moved
and I say yes. Do I think it&#39;s a good thing for famous people to put
their name and face on stuff? I don&#39;t know. When I stop and think about
it, maybe, if I want to help, I should just put a baseball hat on, not
use my face at all, and be one of the people on the march, write a
letter to my congressman, and just be a citizen.

I don&#39;t like people to think they know me. It makes me queasy.

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Helen Hunt

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