1. Linda Hunt was born on Lydia Susanna Hunt; April 2,1945 and is an American actress.
28 Facts About Linda Hunt
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Linda Hunt made her film debut playing Mrs Oxheart in Popeye.
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Linda Hunt has had a successful career on television and in voice-over work, notably being the narrator for the Ancient Greek mythology themed God of War video game series.
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Linda Hunt was born on April 2,1945, in Morristown, New Jersey.
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Linda Hunt's mother, Elsie Doying Hunt, was a piano teacher who taught at the Westport School of Music, and performed with the Saugatuck Congregational Church Choir in Westport, Connecticut, the town where Hunt would be raised.
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Linda Hunt attended the Interlochen Arts Academy and graduated from the Goodman School of Drama at the Art Institute of Chicago.
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Linda Hunt was a well-known live-stage actress before she entered film and television.
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Linda Hunt made her Broadway debut in the 1975 revival of Ah, Wilderness.
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Linda Hunt was nominated for the Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play for her work in the 1984 play End of the World.
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Linda Hunt received two ensemble Obie Awards for her work Off-Broadway in Top Girls and A Metamorphosis in Miniature.
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Linda Hunt created the role of Aunt Dan in Wallace Shawn's play Aunt Dan and Lemon.
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Linda Hunt was a member of the Long Wharf Theatre Company in Connecticut, where she performed the Player Queen in a production of Hamlet, amongst other roles.
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Linda Hunt portrayed Sister Aloysius in the Pasadena Playhouse production of John Patrick Shanley's play Doubt.
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Linda Hunt was praised for her performance as the title character in Bertolt Brecht's Mother Courage and Her Children.
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Linda Hunt appeared as Pope Joan in Caryl Churchill's Top Girls when London's Royal Court Theatre's production was staged at the Public Theater in New York.
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Two years later, Linda Hunt co-starred as Billy Kwan in The Year of Living Dangerously, Peter Weir's film adaptation of the novel of the same name.
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Linda Hunt played the Shadout Mapes in Dune, a nurse in She-Devil, the austere school principal Miss Schlowski opposite Arnold Schwarzenegger in Kindergarten Cop, and assassin Ilsa Grunt in If Looks Could Kill.
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Linda Hunt has narrated several installments of The American Experience on PBS.
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From 2009 to 2023, Linda Hunt co-starred as Operations Manager Henrietta "Hetty" Lange on the CBS television series NCIS: Los Angeles.
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Linda Hunt was a main cast member on the series for twelve seasons, but was downgraded to a special guest star position in season thirteen as a safety precaution due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Linda Hunt was supposed to return in the series finale, but was unable to due to availability issues.
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Linda Hunt won two Teen Choice Awards for her work on NCIS: Los Angeles.
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Linda Hunt voiced the role of Grandmother Willow in the animated musical film Pocahontas and its direct-to-video sequel Pocahontas II: Journey to a New World.
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Linda Hunt narrated the National Geographic documentary The Great Indian Railway.
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Linda Hunt narrated a PBS Nature special entitled Christmas in Yellowstone.
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Linda Hunt has been in a relationship with psychotherapist Karen Kline since 1978.
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Linda Hunt is an ambassador for the Best Friends Animal Society.
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In July 2018, People magazine reported that Linda Hunt was involved in a multi-car accident in Los Angeles, which resulted in her taking almost a year off from NCIS: Los Angeles.