Linda Hunt

HOOPER!!!

Omg, it's Edna Mode!

It's a MAN, baby!

That's not Linda Hunt.

She's family. Didn't she win an Oscar for playing a male character?

That's Elijah Woods

Loved her in Dune.

She was great in Silverado.

I love that she won an Oscar playing an Asian dude. So delightfully weird.

Even her PSAs about brittle bones are majestic.

Does she have a form of dwarfism or is she just small?

I think she's just small. She's 4'9"—for reference, an inch taller than JC Mounduix on Big Brother.

R10, yes you are absolutely right -- MAJESTIC is the right description.

She classes up everything she’s in. Even that NCIS LA mess.

[quote]She classes up everything she’s in. Even that NCIS LA mess.

She's like Vincent Price. She turns a B movie into an A just by showing up.

I liked her best in “She-Devil” and “Kindergarten Cop”

I love when Dyan Cannon presented Linda with her Supporting Actress Award in 1984? for The Year of Living Dangerously-

Dy-Dy was so excited to announce Linda's name that she yelped out "Linda CUNT!"

The audience went wild.

She was also great in "Waiting for the Moon," a little seen film from 1987 in which she played Alice B. Toklas.

Her casting by Peter Weir in “The Year of Living Dangerously” was inspired - playing Billy Kwan, an Australian born Chinese dwarf male. The book had been a best seller so people were wondering who he would cast.

Plus this movie had Mel Gibson at the peak of his beauty...

Her performance in TYOLD inspired Whoopi Goldberg to campaign for a role in Jack Nicholson’s sequel to CHINATOWN, THE TWO JAKES. The character was male and Whoopi wanted to play the part and used Linda Hunt as an example. Nicholson nixed the idea. She dodged a bullet with that one, as the film tanked.

I think I read she does have a form of dwarfism. She's from Morristown NJ.

^ hypopituitary dwarfism.

I remember her in the movie,The Year Of Living Dangerously.

Imagine if someone tried casting a white woman as an asian man today... Imagine all the think pieces on indiewire!

The character was Eurasian, not pure Asian, so it’s appropriate to cast a white actor. Would you think that actors like Kristin Kreuk or Mark-Paul Gosselaar look like they are Asian? Both of them have Asian moms.

R25 that’s not correct - the character in the book on which the film was based was an Australian born Chinese (an “ABC”). I have no issues with casting a non-Chinese female as a Chinese male - Chinese male dwarf Australian actors were in rather short supply when the film was being cast! I thought she was brilliant in the role, under a brilliant director - Peter Weir.

She is awesome. She has carved out a nice career as a character actress for herself by simply embracing her uniqueness and being an incredibly compelling performer. She brings an air of class and importance to everything she does...even on that stupid NCIS:LA show. She makes the drivel they pass off as dialogue seem "weighty" and real.

You've certainly never heard anything salacious about her. She seems like a no nonsense type of actor. She goes in, does her work to the best of her ability, and goes home to her very normal private life. I get the feeling outside work she's just a very normal gal, not interested in being a celebrity at all.

She's been with the same woman for 40 years. That says a lot. She's not the typical flighty Hollywood type.

"Hunt has been with psychotherapist Karen Kline since 1978. The two were married in 2008. They currently reside in a historic neighborhood in Hollywood, California with their pet dogs, in an early 20th century American Craftsman style home."

Here's Linda and her wife in their pretty home.

More images of their home.

Cool idea with the magazine covers on the walls

Here's her Oscar acceptance speech. Grace personified.

She really is the vocal equivalent of James Earl Jones (could make a dish soap commercial sound important and compelling).

Lovely woman and actress and looks like she has made a very nice life for herself.

What a great woman. Her house is super cozy. Now that we are talking about her, I'm worried she's going to croak.

Loved her in THE BOSTONIANS. Dr. Prance.

R11

She has a form of dwarfism.

How is she doing after the car accident?

What car accident?

She collided with two cars when she was making a left turn R39. She was taken to the hospital with non serious injuries. It happened back in July and she is OK.

She's the berries.

Not one nasty post about her, only praise. A red letter day for DL.

OP, thanks for this. HATE that she wasn't cast as Edna Mode in any of "The Incredibles". Here's a great interview... she's the best :)

She may not have been cast -- but they sure as hell owe her money.

She IS Edna Mode.

I love her house.

She's a well-known sex freak. Into double anal and fisting.

She has a vizsla...thus i love her...

And the Oscar goes to!

Linda CUNT!

Yes, she was amazing in Year of Living Dangerously. Later, she had a recurring role, kind of comedic, as a judge on ABC's The Practice, and maybe also the sort-of spinoff Boston Legal.

I love her work.

What the fuck was Dyan wearing in that clip?

Is she a vagatarian?

Loved her in Kindergarten Cop and If Looks Could Kill.

I loved her in “Ilse, She-Wolf of the SS”!

I saw her in Mother Courage and Her Children in Boston in the early 80s. She was wonderful.

She and that blond-haired boy, Something-Something Olson, kept me watching that NCIS:LA show for two years.

I saw her driving behind me in LA once. I assumed she was sitting on a stack of phone books.

Linda Hunt is cool. Her woman is ugly as sin though.

UGLY!!!!!

Wasn't she Caryl Churchill's lover back in the 1980s?

Mike Hunt

I never would have guessed she’s from Jersey. What’s with the phony Continental accent? It’s a bit Cary Grant of her.

Still no word on her health. They had her character call the show but using a voice Scrambler, so she hasn't even made an off-screen appearance. The news reports on the accident said her injuries were minor but now I wonder if she had a health incident That's caused the accident