Helen Hunt wallpaper
Helen Hunt began working in the 1970s as a child actress. Her early roles included an appearance as Murray Slaughter’s daughter on The Mary Tyler Moore Show, alongside Lindsay Wagner in an episode of The Bionic Woman, and a regular role in the television series The Swiss Family Robinson. She appeared as a marijuana-smoking classmate on an episode of The Facts of Life. She also appeared as a young woman who, while on PCP, jumps out of a second-story window in a 1982 after school special called Desperate Lives (a scene which she mocked during a Saturday Night Live monologue in 1994). In the mid-1980s, she had a recurring role on St. Elsewhere as Clancy Williams, girlfriend of Dr. Jack “Boomer” Morrison. She remains best known for one of her earliest roles as Jennie in Bill: On His Own, costarring Mickey Rooney.
In 2000, Helen Hunt returned to the screen in four films: Dr. T & the Women with Richard Gere, Pay It Forward with Kevin Spacey & Haley Joel Osment, What Women Want with Mel Gibson, and Cast Away with Tom Hanks. In 2003, she returned to Broadway in Yasmina Reza’s Life x 3. Hunt was also a final candidate for the role of “Clarice Starling” in Hannibal, after Jodie Foster decided not to reprise her Oscar winning role from The Silence of the Lambs. However, Hunt lost the role to Julianne Moore at the last minute. In 2006, Hunt appeared in a small role in the film Bobby.
Helen Hunt is a director, having helmed several episodes of Mad About You, including the series finale. Her big-screen directorial debut came with the film Then She Found Me, in which she also starred.
She currently owns a production company with Connie Tavel, Hunt/Tavel Productions under Sony Pictures Entertainment.
Ten years ago, Helen Hunt had accomplished about all there was for a screen actress to achieve. She had been the star of a long-running sitcom (Mad About You), for which she won four consecutive Emmys and three Golden Globes. She had starred in blockbuster movies, such as Twister and Cast Away. And she had won an Oscar, for playing a waitress who falls for Jack Nicholson’s obsessive-compulsive author in As Good As It Gets.
It was time for a new challenge, so Ms. Hunt got to work writing a script for Elinor Lipman’s novel Then She Found Me, which she would also eventually decide to make her big-screen directorial debut and star in. But as she would learn, if a movie isn’t an adaptation of a known commodity, it’s tough to get a green light to make it, no matter who you are.
“Being well-known got me in the room with people, but it didn’t get them to say yes,” Ms. Hunt says while in town for the recent AFI Dallas International Film Festival, which made Then She Found Me its opening-night film. “People don’t write you a check because you were good in As Good As It Gets.”
Thus began a 10-year struggle to see her passion project through, a struggle that at last bears fruit with the film’s platform release, including opening in Dallas today. During the interview, the 44-year-old actress discussed her decision to star in the movie, what else has been keeping her busy and whether she’ll sit in the director’s chair again.
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