I have admired her work for a 3 decades, plus, I am just zany for small people & she is 4'9''. Like Glenn Close in Damages or Cherry Jones in 24, major actress Linda Hunt will lend acting cred to the cast of a prime time TV series. She plays Hetty Lange, a quirky M-type character, on NCIS, a show I have never viewed, sorry Linda.
Hunt, a lesbian, should be beloved by queer people for playing Billy Kwan in 1982's The Year of Living Dangerously, a very fine movie co-starring Sigourney Weaver & a pre-insane Mel Gibson. The role won Hunt the Oscar for Best Supporting Actress. This was the first Academy Award won by someone portraying a member of the opposite sex. Her performance was complex & deeply touching.
Hunt studied at The Goodman School of Drama. She had her film debut in 1980 in Robert Altman's musical- Popeye. 2 years later, she co-starred in The Year of Living Dangerously. She also played the school principal in Kindergarten Cop, filmed in Oregon in 1990 & Alice B. Toklas in the underrated Waiting For The Moon, plus dozens of other films, excellent or horrible. Hunt is one of those working actors that I have always admired. I wonder if she sings; she might be mesmerizing in a Vegas show.
On stage, Hunt has received 2 Obie awards & a Tony nomination for her theatre work. She created the role of Aunt Dan in Wallace Shawn's play Aunt Dan & Lemon. She portrayed Sister Aloysius in the Pasadena Playhouse production of Doubt. Hunt also appeared as Pope Joan in Caryl Churchill's Top Girls at London's Royal Court Theatre. Her TV roles include Judge Zoey Hiller on The Practice & Dr. Claire Bryson on Without a Trace. She has narrated several installments of The American Experience on PBS.
Linda Hunt turns 67 today. I think she would be an interesting guest at a cocktail party. Hunt has been with her wife, Karen Klein, for 25 years. The couple live in LA have their 3 dogs.
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