Helen Elizabeth Hunt (born June 15, 1963) is an actress and filmmaker from the United States. She has won several awards, including an Academy Award and four Emmy Awards. Hunt won three Golden Globe Awards for Best Actress in a Television Series – Musical or Comedy and four Primetime Emmy Awards for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series for her role as Jamie Buchman in the sitcom Mad About You (1992–1999).
Hunt received an Academy Award for Best Actress for Carol Connelly in the romantic comedy As Good as It Gets (1997). In addition, she was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her role as Cheryl Cohen-Greene in The Sessions (2012). Twister (1996), Cast Away (2000), What Women Want (2000), Pay It Forward (2000), Bobby (2006), Soul Surfer (2011), and The Miracle Season (2011) are among her other famous films (2018).
Hunt made her directorial debut with Then She Found Me (2007). She has also directed episodes of House of Lies; This Is Us, Feud: Bette and Joan, American Housewife, and the inaugural episode of the Mad About You revival.
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