HELEN HUNT

Helen Hunt has enjoyed a distinguished career not only as an award-winning actor, but as an accomplished writer, director and producer.  As an actress, her extensive and diverse body of work includes roles in film, theater, and television.    Hunt can most recently be seen as Rainey in Daveed Diggs and Rafael Casal’s BLINDSPOTTING, a show based on the film with the same title. Season two of BLINDSPOTTING begins production in February 2022.
 
On the big screen, Hunt can last be seen in HOW IT ENDS, Michael Cristpher’s THE NIGHT CLERK and Adam Randall’s thriller I SEE YOU. In 2019, Hunt revived her role as Jamie Buchman for another season of the hit show MAD ABOUT YOU opposite Paul Reiser. The show returned as a limited series on Spectrum Originals with all episodes available on demand. 
 
In 2012 Hunt’s performance in the THE SESSIONS earned her a Independent Spirit Award for Best Supporting Female and notations in the same category by the Academy Awards, Golden Globe Awards, SAG Awards, Broadcast  Film Critics’ Awards and the BAFTA Awards.  The film premiered in competition at the 2012 Sundance Film Festival and took home the Audience Award as well as the jury prize for Best Ensemble.  Other film credits include: Netflix’s Comedy CANDY
JAR, RIDE (which Hunt also co-wrote, produced, and directed), DECODING ANNIE PARKER, SOUL SURFER, EVERY DAY, BOBBY, THEN SHE FOUND ME (which Hunt again also co-wrote, produced, and directed), AS GOOD AS IT GETS, WHAT WOMEN WANT, CASTAWAY, A GOOD WOMAN, Woody Allen’s THE CURSE OF THE JADE SCORPION, Robert Altman’s DR. T AND THE WOMEN, PAY IT FORWARD, and TWISTER.  Early career film credits are: THE WATERDANCE, KISS OF DEATH, MR. SATURDAY NIGHT, PEGGY SUE GOT MARRIED, NEXT OF KIN, GIRLS JUST WANNA HAVE FUN,
PROJECT X. and MILES FROM HOME.   
 
Additional television credits include “MAD ABOUT YOU” and the critically acclaimed HBO Miniseries EMPIRE FALLS. For her role as Jamie Buchman in MAD ABOUT YOU, Hunt garnered four Emmy Awards, four Golden Globe Awards (three as lead actress and one as Producer for Best Comedy), and a Screen Actors Guild Award.  She was also named “Best Actress” for her role in the film AS GOOD AS IT GETS for which Hunt won a Golden Globe Award, a Screen Actors Guild Award,
and an Oscar.