Helen hunt

But the truth is that his rise came with a certain delay. As it happened with other actors and actresses of the stature of Michael Douglas , Leonardo DiCaprio , Will Smith , Jodie Foster or Neve Campbell , Helen Hunt’s true school has been the small screen, where most of her extensive acting career has been framed.

Helen Elizabeth Hunt was born on June 15, 1963 in Culver City (California), the daughter of Gordon Hunt, a famous theater director and actor, and Jane, a photographer by profession. At the age of three her family moved to New York, where her sister Colleen was born. However, the family’s stay in the Big Apple is short-lived and the quartet settles permanently in Los Angeles when Helen is nine years old. Already at that time, the little girl had decided that she wanted to be an actress and in 1972 she began to receive acting classes with the actress Lurene Tuttle . The following year Helen Hunt gets her first role in the television series Pioneer Woman .

From that moment on, his television appearances are innumerable, until in 1977 he made the leap to the big screen with the film Montaña rusa. However, television continues to be the medium in which she performs best and during the eighties she continues to act in successful series. Helen Hunt does not stop working during this time, and she even does theater, an occupation she will soon give up. She is something that she will not do with the cinema, where she continues to play roles in films such as Peggy Sue got married (1986) or Project X (1987), where she meets Matthew Broderick , who becomes her partner in life. real.

And the nineties arrive and Helen Hunt becomes the actress we all know, the skinny, blonde girl, with an intelligent look, a seductive smile and a grace that casts a spell on the viewer with unusual naturalness. The key to this transformation is hidden in the television series Mad About You , which began airing in 1992. Overnight, his Jamie Buchman character became a social event: lovable, neurotic, wife, romantic, charming… A bit in the antipodes of Ally McBeal. Little by little, great projects such as La danza del agua (1992) or the box office hit Twister (1996) began to rain on him. Helen Hunt was dating fellow actor Eric Stoltz at the time.. In 1997, she manages to perfectly embody Carol Conelly’s tenderness in As …impossible , a role “stolen” from actress Holly Hunter . The critics of the whole world surrender to the charm of her smile and she wins the Oscar for best actress. But meanwhile, the success of Loco por ti continues unstoppable. She has won numerous awards for the series, including 3 Golden Globes and 2 Emmy Awards, in addition to dozens of nominations. Her cache increases considerably and she gets to collect 180 million pesetas per chapter. However, not everything is going well in her personal life: in 1999 she married Hank Azaria ; The marriage lasted two years, and in December 2001 Helen Hunt announced her divorce.

His latest professional works are synonymous with success: Dr. T and the women , Pay it forward , Castaway , What do women think? … all of them shot in the year 2000. He has yet to release The Curse of the Jade Scorpion (2001). There is even talk of the film version of Crazy About You , because everyone is crazy about Helen Hunt, this cinnamon-eyed actress who especially enjoys dancing, yoga and painting.