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| Helen Hunt's Biography |
A precociously talented youngster, Helen Hunt was drawing paychecks as a TV actress from the age of ten. Before she was 17, she had appeared as a regular on two series, Swiss Family Robinson (1975) and The Fitzpatricks (1977).
Hunt proved she was more than just a workaday kid actress with her starring performance in the fact-based 1981 TV movie The Miracle of Kathy Miller, in which she played a high school athlete who overcame severe mental and physical damage brought on by a highway accident. While she had been appearing in films as early as 1977's Rollercoaster, Hunt was never groomed as a star player; it is possible that her close resemblance to another child actress, Jodie Foster, held her back from more important roles.
After taking on her first adult role in the 1982 sitcom It Takes Two, Hunt's film assignments improved, with sizable roles in Girls Just Want to Have Fun (1985), Peggy Sue Got Married (1986), Project X (1987), The Waterdance (1991), and Next of Kin (1991). She also gained a small measure of cult status by appearing in a brace of sci-fi films, Trancers 2 (1991) and Trancers 3 (1992).
In 1992, Hunt landed her longest-lasting acting assignment to date, as co-star of the Paul Reiser-created comedy series Mad About You. During the show's seven-year run, she won both Emmy and Golden Globe Awards for her portrayal of Jamie Buchman. In 1996, Hunt had her most successful film role to date in the blockbuster Twister.
The following year, she topped that when she received a Best Actress Oscar for playing a caring waitress and single mother who befriends acerbic, obsessive-compulsive author Melvin Udall (Jack Nicholson, who also won an Oscar for his role) in As Good As It Gets. -- Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
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