RECENT CREDITS
Saving Grace (TV)  Dec. 18, 2007
Tonight Show With Jay Leno (TV)  Jul. 17, 2007
Ellen DeGeneres Show (TV)  May. 30, 2007
The Big White (FILM)  Dec. 16, 2005


HIGHLIGHTS
The youngest of seven children, she grew up on a farm in Georgia.
Played piano, French horn and trumpet as a child.
Starred as Helen Keller in a fifth-grade play.
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All Credits

Film Name / TV Show Name (Episode Name)
Role
Category

The Big White  2005 -Margaret Barnell
Actor
Film


Nine Lives  2005 -Sonia
Actor
Film


The Incredibles  2004 -Helen Parr / Elastigirl
Voice
Film


Little Black Book  2004 -Barb
Actor
Film


Thirteen  2003 -Melanie
Actor, Executive Producer
Film


Levity  2003 -Adele Easely
Actor
Film


Moonlight Mile  2002 -Mona Camp
Actor
Film


Actor
Film


Actor
Film


Jesus' Son  2000 -Mira
Actor
Film


Timecode  2000 -Executive
Actor
Film


Living Out Loud  1998 -Judith
Actor
Film


Once Around  1991 -Renata Bella
Actor
Film


Always  1989 -Dorinda Durston
Actor
Film


Animal Behavior  1989 -Coral Grable
Actor
Film


End of the Line  1987 -Charlotte Haney
Actor
Film


Raising Arizona  1987 -Ed
Actor
Film


Broadcast News  1987 -Jane Craig
Actor
Film


Actor
TV


Actor
TV


Harlan County War   -Ruby Kincaid
Actor
TV


Actor
TV


Player's Journal  2001-2002
Host
TV
Expand


Actor
TV


Saving Grace  2007 -Grace Hanadarko
Producer, Actor
TV
Expand


When Billie Beat Bobby   -Billie Jean King
Actor
TV


Actor
TV


Blood Simple  2000 -Answering machine
Voice
Film


Actor
Film


Woman Wanted  2000
Actor
Film


A Life Less Ordinary  1997 -O'Reilly
Actor
Film


Crash  1997 -Dr. Helen Remington
Actor
Film


Home for the Holidays  1995 -Claudia Larson
Actor
Film


Copycat  1995 -M.J. Monahan
Actor
Film


The Piano  1993 -Ada McGrath
Actor
Film


The Firm  1993 -Tammy Hemphill
Actor
Film


The Burning   -Sophie
Actor
Film


Urge to Kill   -Wynn Nolen
Actor
Film


When Billie Beat Bobby   -Billie Jean King
Actor, Co-Executive Producer
Film


Miss Firecracker   -Carnelle Scott
Actor
Film


An Uncommon Love   -Karen
Actor
Film


A Gathering of Old Men   -Candy Marshall
Actor
Film


Harlan County War   -Ruby Kincaid
Actor
Film


Crazy in Love   -Georgie Symonds
Actor
Film


Rock That Uke!   -Introductory Voice Narrator
Voice
Film


Roe vs. Wade   -Ellen Russell/Jane Doe
Actor
Film


Svengali   -Leslie
Actor
Film


Swing Shift   -Jeannie
Actor
Film




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Highlights

The youngest of seven children, she grew up on a farm in Georgia.
Played piano, French horn and trumpet as a child.
Starred as Helen Keller in a fifth-grade play.
After college, she shared an apartment in New York with actress Frances McDormand.
Has appeared in seven plays written by Beth Henley, including the 1981 Pulitzer-winning drama Crimes of the Heart and 1984's Miss Firecracker Contest. Hunter reprised her role in the 1
Made her big-screen debut in the 1981 horror film The Burning.
Her role in Joel and Ethan Coen's Raising Arizona (1987) was written especially for her.


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