Helen Hunt

{{Infobox person

| name = Helen Hunt

| image = HelenHunt@ambiente2015.JPG

| image_caption = Hunt in 2015

| birth_name = Helen Elizabeth Hunt

| birth_date = {{birth date and age |1963|6|15}}

| birth_place = Culver City, California, U.S.

| occupation = {{hlist|Actress|director|screenwriter}}

| years_active = 1973–present

| works = Full list

| awards = Full list

| spouse = {{marriage|Hank Azaria|1999|2000|reason=divorced}}

| partner = Matthew Carnahan
(2001–2017)

| children = 1

| father = Gordon Hunt

| relatives = Peter H. Hunt (uncle)

}}

Helen Elizabeth Hunt (born June 15, 1963) is an American actress and director. Her accolades include an Academy Award, four Primetime Emmy Awards, and four Golden Globe Awards.

Hunt rose to fame portraying newlywed Jamie Buchman in the sitcom Mad About You (1992–1999), which earned her three Golden Globe Awards for Best Actress and four Primetime Emmy Awards for Lead Actress. Hunt won the Academy Award for Best Actress for starring as a single mother in the romantic comedy film As Good as It Gets (1997), and established a film career by starring in Twister (1996), Cast Away (2000), What Women Want (2000), and Pay It Forward (2000).

Hunt made her directorial film debut with Then She Found Me (2007). For her portrayal of Cheryl Cohen-Greene in The Sessions (2012), she gained a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. Her other notable films include Bobby (2006), Soul Surfer (2011), and The Miracle Season (2018), and she has directed the film Ride (2014), and episodes of television series, including House of Lies in 2016, This Is Us in 2016, Feud: Bette and Joan in 2017, American Housewife in 2018, and the premiere episode of the Mad About You revival in 2019.

Early life

Helen Hunt was born in Culver City, California. Her mother, Jane Elizabeth (née Novis), worked as a photographer, and her father, Gordon Hunt, was a film, voice and stage director and acting coach.{{tcmdb name|id=90846|name=Helen Hunt}} Her uncle, Peter H. Hunt, was also a director. Her maternal grandmother, Dorothy (née Anderson) Fries, was a voice coach.{{cite web|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1991-09-21-ca-2224-story.html|title=Helen Hunt Takes a Leap of Faith, Lands in 'Pamela Smart'|work=Los Angeles Times|date=September 21, 1991 |access-date=September 28, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130225181106/http://articles.latimes.com/1991-09-21/entertainment/ca-2224_1_helen-hunt|archive-date=February 25, 2013|url-status=live}} Hunt's paternal grandmother was from a German-Jewish family, while Hunt's other grandparents were of English descent (her maternal grandfather was born in England), with a Methodist religious background.{{Cite web|url=http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~battle/celeb/hunt.htm|title=Helen Hunt ancestry|access-date=October 30, 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110810201658/http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~battle/celeb/hunt.htm|archive-date=August 10, 2011|url-status=dead}}{{cite news|last=Robinson|first=George|title=Then She Found Me'|publisher=The New York Jewish Week|date=February 13, 2008|url=http://www.thejewishweek.com/viewArticle/c234_a4474/Special_Sections/Arts_Preview.html|access-date=April 24, 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090115033820/http://www.thejewishweek.com/viewArticle/c234_a4474/Special_Sections/Arts_Preview.html |archive-date=January 15, 2009}}Nick Johnstone, [http://www.thejc.com/arts/arts-interviews/how-helen-hunt-did-god "How Helen Hunt did God"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160817120920/http://www.thejc.com/arts/arts-interviews/how-helen-hunt-did-god |date=August 17, 2016 }}, The Jewish Chronicle, August 28, 2008.{{Cite web|url=https://snltranscripts.jt.org/93/93pcoffeetalk.phtml|title=Coffee Talk|date=October 8, 2018|access-date=January 27, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190717021843/https://snltranscripts.jt.org/93/93pcoffeetalk.phtml|archive-date=July 17, 2019|url-status=live}}

When she was three, Hunt's family moved to New York City, where her father directed theatre and Hunt attended plays as a child several times a week.Stated on Inside the Actors Studio, 2001 Hunt graduated from Providence High School in Burbank, California.{{cite news |title=HELEN HUNT GOING STRONG |url=https://www.mcall.com/1993/01/03/helen-hunt-going-strong/ |work=The Morning Call |date=3 January 1993}} She also studied ballet, and briefly attended the University of California, Los Angeles.{{Cite web|url=https://movies.yahoo.com/movie/contributor/1800020347/bio|title=Helen Hunt Biography – Yahoo! Movies|access-date=January 14, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120114181125/http://movies.yahoo.com/movie/contributor/1800020347/bio|archive-date=January 14, 2012|url-status=live}}{{cite news|last=Cohn|first=Robert A.|title=Paul Reiser kicks off book fest|publisher=St. Louis Jewish Light|date=November 7, 2007|url=http://www.stljewishlight.com/topstories/290240140354285.php|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071109112136/http://www.stljewishlight.com/topstories/290240140354285.php |archive-date=November 9, 2007|access-date=November 8, 2007}}

Career

=1970s–1980s=

File:Helen Hunt "It Takes Two" (1982 ABC press photo).jpg]]

Hunt began working as a child actress in the 1970s. Her early roles included an appearance on season 2, episode 3 of TV series "Family" (first aired Oct 26, 1976), playing Robin Trask, a classmate of Kristy McNichol. She also had an appearance as Murray Slaughter's daughter on The Mary Tyler Moore Show in the 1977 episode “Murray Ghosts for Ted”, as the daughter of George Segal's main character in Rollercoaster (1977), alongside Lindsay Wagner in an episode of The Bionic Woman, an appearance in an episode of Ark II called "Omega", 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. In 1982, Hunt played a young woman who, while on PCP, jumps out of a second-story window, in a made-for-television film called Desperate Lives (a scene which she mocked during a Saturday Night Live monologue in 1994),{{Cite web|url=https://snltranscripts.jt.org/93/93pmono.phtml|title=Helen Hunt's Monologue|date=October 8, 2018|access-date=January 27, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180807111504/http://snltranscripts.jt.org/93/93pmono.phtml|archive-date=August 7, 2018|url-status=live}} and she was cast on the ABC sitcom It Takes Two, which lasted only one season. In 1983, she starred in Bill: On His Own, with Mickey Rooney and played Tami Maida in the fact-based production Quarterback Princess; both were made-for-television films. She also had a recurring role on St. Elsewhere as Clancy Williams, the girlfriend of Jack "Boomer" Morrison (David Morse), and had a notable guest appearance as a cancer-stricken mother-to-be in a two-part episode of Highway to Heaven.

By the mid and late 1980s, Hunt had begun appearing in studio films aimed at a teenage audience. Her first major film role was that of a punk rock girl in the sci-fi film Trancers (1984). She played the friend of an army brat in the comedy Girls Just Want to Have Fun (1985), with Sarah Jessica Parker and Shannen Doherty, and appeared as the daughter of a woman on the verge of divorce in Francis Ford Coppola's Peggy Sue Got Married (1986), alongside Kathleen Turner. In 1987, Hunt starred with Matthew Broderick in Project X, as a graduate student assigned to care for chimpanzees used in a secret Air Force project. In 1988, she appeared in Stealing Home, as Hope Wyatt, the sister of Billy Wyatt, played by Mark Harmon and a cast featuring Jodie Foster and Harold Ramis. Next of Kin (1989) featured her as the pregnant wife of a respectable lawman, opposite Patrick Swayze and Liam Neeson.

=1990s=

In 1990, Hunt appeared with Tracey Ullman and Morgan Freeman in a Wild West version of The Taming of the Shrew, at the Delacorte Theater in Central Park.{{cite web |last=Rothstein |first=Mervyn |title=Helen Hunt Fulfills a Dream Doing Midsummer Twelfth Night on B'way |url=http://www.playbill.com/article/helen-hunt-fulfills-a-dream-doing-midsummer-twelfth-night-on-bway-com-101200 |website=Playbill |access-date=March 8, 2019 |date=June 18, 1998 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190224173558/http://www.playbill.com/article/helen-hunt-fulfills-a-dream-doing-midsummer-twelfth-night-on-bway-com-101200 |archive-date=February 24, 2019 |url-status=live }} In 1991, Hunt starred in Trancers II, the direct-to-video sequel to Trancers (1984), and played the lead female role in the sitcom My Life and Times, which only aired for 6 episodes. In 1992, she would appear in the drama The Waterdance as a married woman having an affair with a writer; in the romantic comedy Only You, as a travel agent and the love interest of a doll's house designer; in the mockumentary Bob Roberts, as Rose Pondell, a field reporter at WLNO; and in Mr. Saturday Night, as a young agent named Annie Well. In 1992, Hunt returned for her fourth and final outing as Lena in Trancers III, the second sequel of the Trancers series including Trancers 1.5, which was among her five film releases that year.

File:Helen Hunt.jpg

Hunt came to prominence in North America with the sitcom Mad About You (1992–99), in which she starred opposite Paul Reiser, as a public relations specialist and one half of a couple in NYC. She went on to win Emmy Awards for her performances in 1996, 1997, 1998, and 1999. For the show's final season, Reiser and Hunt received $1 million (${{formatnum:{{Inflation|US|1|1999|r=1}}}} million today) per episode.{{cite news |url=https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9802E7D81338F937A15750C0A96E958260 |title=THE MEDIA BUSINESS; NBC Signs Deal to Keep 'Mad About You' for Another Season |first=Bill |last=Carter |date=March 24, 1998 |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=March 24, 2008}} She directed several episodes of Mad About You, including the series finale.

In 1995, Hunt played the wife of an ex-con living in Queens, alongside Nicolas Cage, in Kiss of Death, a very loosely based remake of the 1947 film noir classic of the same name. In the disaster action film Twister (1996), Hunt starred with Bill Paxton as storm chasers researching tornadoes. Both actors were temporarily blinded by bright electronic lamps halfway through filming, and needed hepatitis shots after shooting in a particularly unsanitary ditch. Twister was the second-highest-grossing film of 1996, behind Independence Day.{{cite web|url=https://screenrant.com/twister-2-helen-hunt-story-details-character-death/|title=Rejected Twister 2 Story Killed Off Helen Hunt's Character|website=Screen Rant |date=June 14, 2021 }} The film sold an estimated 54,688,100 tickets in the US. It made US$494.5 million around the globe.{{cite web | title=Twister (1996) | url=https://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=twister.htm | work=Box Office Mojo | access-date=February 23, 2019 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190602160804/https://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=twister.htm | archive-date=June 2, 2019 | url-status=live }}

Hunt went on to win the Academy Award for Best Actress in the romantic comedy As Good as It Gets (1997), in which she took on the role of a waitress and single mother who finds herself falling in love with a misanthropic, obsessive-compulsive romance novelist, played by Jack Nicholson. Hunt and Nicholson got along well during the filming, and they connected immediately: "It wasn't even what we said", Hunt added. "It was just some frequency we both could tune into that was very, very compatible."Bona, Damien. Inside Oscar 2, Random House (2002) e-book Author and screenwriter Andrew Horton described their on-screen relationship as being like "fire and ice, oil and water—seemingly complete opposites".Horton, Andrew. Laughing Out Loud: Writing the Comedy-centered Screenplay, Univ. of California Press (2000) p. 64 Nonetheless, Hunt was Nicholson's perfect counterpart, and delivered "a simply stunning performance", wrote critic Louise Keller. The film was a tremendous box office success, grossing US$314 million worldwide.{{Cite web|url=https://www.boxofficemojo.com/release/rl2185397761/|title=As Good as It Gets|website=Box Office Mojo}} In 1998, she played the love interest of Moe Szyslak on The Simpsons episode "Dumbbell Indemnity", and played Viola in Shakespeare's Twelfth Night, at Lincoln Center in New York.{{IBDB name|id=45974|name=Helen Hunt}}

=2000s=

Two of Hunt's four film releases in 2000—the comedy Dr. T & the Women and the drama Pay It Forward—were both released in October. While the first featured her as one of the women that encompass the everyday life of a wealthy gynecologist, opposite Richard Gere, the second starred her as the love interest of a physically and emotionally scarred grade school teacher, played by Kevin Spacey. Critic Roger Ebert highlighted her performance in Pay It Forward, despite finding the film itself to be "too emotionally manipulative".{{cite web|url=https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/pay_it_forward/|title=Pay It Forward|website=Rotten Tomatoes |access-date=February 25, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171129071703/https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/pay_it_forward/|archive-date=November 29, 2017|url-status=live}} Her other two 2000 films—the romantic comedy What Women Want, and the drama Cast Away— were released in December, to outstanding box office receipts. In What Women Want, Hunt starred with Mel Gibson as the co-worker and love interest of a Chicago executive, and in Cast Away, she portrayed the long-term girlfriend of a FedEx employee marooned on an uninhabited island, alongside Tom Hanks.

Hunt starred in Woody Allen's The Curse of the Jade Scorpion (2001), as an efficiency expert hypnotized by a crooked hypnotist into stealing jewels. Despite the film's limited success, Roger Ebert asserted: "Hunt in particular has fun with a wisecracking dame role that owes something, perhaps, to Rosalind Russell in His Girl Friday."{{cite web|last=Ebert|first=Roger|author-link1=Roger Ebert|title=The Curse of the Jade Scorpion (2001)|url=https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/the-curse-of-the-jade-scorpion-2001|website=Roger Ebert.com|date=August 24, 2001|access-date=February 23, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180612163312/https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/the-curse-of-the-jade-scorpion-2001|archive-date=June 12, 2018|url-status=live}} In 2003, Hunt returned to Broadway in Yasmina Reza's Life x 3, and in 2004, she starred in the drama A Good Woman, as a femme fatale in 1930s NYC. AV Club, in its review for the latter, remarked: "Helen Hunt looks embarrassingly out of place trying to play an infamous seductress".{{Cite web|url=https://www.avclub.com/a-good-woman-1798201400|title=A Good Woman|website=The A.V. Club |date=February 2006 |access-date=February 23, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190411232051/https://film.avclub.com/a-good-woman-1798201400|archive-date=April 11, 2019|url-status=live}} She played a socialite, as part of an ensemble cast, in Emilio Estevez's drama Bobby (2006), about the hours leading up to the Robert F. Kennedy assassination. As a member of the cast, she was nominated for the Screen Actors Guild Award for Best Cast in a Motion Picture but won the Hollywood Film Festival Award for Best Ensemble Cast.{{cite web|url=http://www.sagawards.org/awards/nominees-and-recipients/13th-annual-screen-actors-guild-awards|title=The 13th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards – Screen Actors Guild Awards|website=Sagawards.org|access-date=October 11, 2017|archive-url=https://archive.today/20121204191422/http://www.sagawards.org/awards/nominees-and-recipients/13th-annual-screen-actors-guild-awards|archive-date=December 4, 2012|url-status=live}}

Hunt made her feature film directorial debut in Then She Found Me (2007), in which she also starred as a 39-year-old Brooklyn elementary school teacher, who after years is contacted by the flamboyant host of a local talk show, played by Bette Midler, who introduces herself as her biological mother. After first reading Elinor Lipman's novel, she tried to interest numerous studios in the material, and her unsuccessful efforts led her to begin writing the screenplay and raising funds to produce it herself. Upon its release, Ruthe Stein of the San Francisco Chronicle observed, "You would think that frontloading Then She Found Me with so much plot would make it play like a soap opera. But Hunt saves the movie from this fate in two ways. First she turns in a touchingly real performance, the best of her big-screen career. Forget that As Good as It Gets won her an Oscar.{{Cite web |last=Vivarelli |first=Nick |date=2023-12-11 |title=Dustin Hoffman, Helen Hunt to Star in Peter Greenaway's Tuscan Drama 'Lucca Mortis' |url=https://variety.com/2023/film/global/dustin-hoffman-helen-hunt-peter-greenaway-lucca-mortis-1235833126/ |access-date=2024-01-22 |website=Variety |language=en-US}} She's eons better and more realistic in this one [...] By directing Then She Found Me, Helen becomes its savior as well [...] Hunt knows when to rein in the Divine Miss M instead of allowing her to go into full Kabuki mode. [She] also coaxes pitch-perfect performances from Broderick and Firth."[http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/05/02/DDII10E0F3.DTL San Francisco Chronicle, May 2, 2008: Then She Found Me] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080504051957/http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=%2Fc%2Fa%2F2008%2F05%2F02%2FDDII10E0F3.DTL |date=May 4, 2008 }} Retrieved February 27, 2013

=2010s=

File:Helen Hunt face.jpg

Hunt starred in the dramedy Every Day (2010), as one half of a married couple pulled apart by increasing responsibilities.{{Cite web|url=https://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/tv-movies/day-review-richard-levine-fails-veers-reality-article-1.149045|title='Every Day' review: Richard Levine fails only when it veers away from reality|first=Elizabeth|last=Weitzman|website=nydailynews.com|access-date=February 23, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190401203323/https://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/tv-movies/day-review-richard-levine-fails-veers-reality-article-1.149045|archive-date=April 1, 2019|url-status=dead}} According to Los Angeles Times, the film "comes as a reminder of [Hunt's] talent for understatement, and a wish to see more of her".{{Cite web|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2011-jan-14-la-et-every-day-20110114-story.html|title=Movie review: 'Every Day'|date=January 14, 2011|website=Los Angeles Times}} In the biographical drama Soul Surfer (2011), she played the mother of the Hawaiian-born champion surfer Bethany Hamilton, on whose life the film was based. Her first wide release since 2001's The Curse of the Jade Scorpion, Soul Surfer made US$47.1 million internationally.{{Cite web|url=https://www.boxofficemojo.com/release/rl2272298497/|title=Soul Surfer|website=Box Office Mojo}}

Hunt starred as sex surrogate Cheryl Cohen-Greene in The Sessions (2012), alongside John Hawkes and William H. Macy. The role required Hunt to perform multiple scenes of full-frontal nudity, on which she further said: "Being naked was challenging, but even more than that was the vulnerability. I felt vulnerable because I was naked. I felt vulnerable because we were having such a vulnerable moment in this character's life. This was a real journey that someone had gone on, and I wanted to do right by that."{{Cite news|url=https://www.popsugar.co.uk/love/photo-gallery/45083061/image/45082981/Helen-Hunt|title=Helen Hunt|last=Block|first=Tara|work=POPSUGAR Love UK|access-date=October 24, 2018|language=en-GB|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181024233433/https://www.popsugar.co.uk/love/photo-gallery/45083061/image/45082981/Helen-Hunt|archive-date=October 24, 2018|url-status=live}} Her performance was acclaimed by critics and earned her several award nominations, including an Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actress. Todd McCarthy of The Hollywood Reporter wrote: "Hunt's performance may be physically bold but is equally marked by its maturity and composure."{{cite web |title=The Surrogate: Sundance Film Review |url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/review/surrogate-sundance-film-review-284158 |work=The Hollywood Reporter |date=January 23, 2012 |first=Todd |last=McCarthy |access-date=January 29, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120129001604/http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/review/surrogate-sundance-film-review-284158 |archive-date=January 29, 2012 |url-status=live }}

Hunt played research geneticist Mary-Claire King in the independent drama Decoding Annie Parker (2013),{{cite journal |url=https://variety.com/2013/film/news/samantha-morton-helen-hunts-decoding-annie-parker-gets-u-s-distribution-exclusive-1200919748/ |title=Samantha Morton-Helen Hunt's 'Decoding Annie Parker' Gets U.S. Distribution (EXCLUSIVE) |journal=Variety |date=December 4, 2013 |first=Dave |last=McNary |access-date=November 19, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141219154627/http://variety.com/2013/film/news/samantha-morton-helen-hunts-decoding-annie-parker-gets-u-s-distribution-exclusive-1200919748/ |archive-date=December 19, 2014 |url-status=live }}{{cite web |url=https://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=decodingannieparker.htm |title=Decoding Annie Parker (2014) |website=Box Office Mojo |access-date=January 11, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160305202654/http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=decodingannieparker.htm |archive-date=March 5, 2016 |url-status=live }} which was released to a mixed critical response.{{cite web |last=Souter |first=Collin |url=https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/decoding-annie-parker-2014 |title=Decoding Annie Parker Movie Review (2014) |publisher=Roger Ebert |date=May 2, 2014 |access-date=January 5, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170504171641/http://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/decoding-annie-parker-2014 |archive-date=May 4, 2017 |url-status=live }} She wrote and directed the drama Ride (2014), in which she also starred as a mother who travels cross-country to California to be with her son after he decides to drop out of school and become a surfer. Rotten Tomatoes' critical consensus read: "Ride reaffirms Helen Hunt's immense acting talent —but suggests that she still needs time to develop as a director."{{cite web |url=https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/771415073/ |title=Ride (2015) |website=Rotten Tomatoes |access-date=May 9, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150428122230/http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/771415073/ |archive-date=April 28, 2015 |url-status=live }}

In The Miracle Season (2018), based on the true story of the Iowa City West High School volleyball team,{{cite web|first=Zach |last=Berg|url=http://www.press-citizen.com/story/entertainment/2018/02/15/west-high-volleyball-coach-hosts-miracle-season-caroline-found-book-release-party-iowa-city/338562002/|title=West High volleyball coach hosts 'Miracle Season,' Caroline Found book release party in Iowa City|work=Iowa City Press Citizen|date=February 15, 2018|access-date=February 17, 2018}} Hunt played Kathy Bresnahan, a volleyball coach. In 2019, Hunt appeared in the BBC series World on Fire as journalist Nancy Campbell, a character inspired by real-life war correspondent Clare Hollingworth,{{Cite web|url=https://nypost.com/2020/03/30/helen-hunt-brings-trailblazing-war-journalist-to-life-in-world-on-fire/|title=Helen Hunt brings trailblazing war journalist to life in 'World on Fire'|last=Starr|first=Michael|date=March 30, 2020|website=New York Post|language=en|access-date=April 22, 2020}} and reprised the role of Jamie Buchman in the Mad About You revival, which premiered in the form of a limited series, by Spectrum Originals. In December 2018, Hunt was a guest narrator at Disney's Candlelight Processional at Walt Disney World.[https://www.orlandosentinel.com/2018/09/25/disney-candlelight-processional-narrators-to-include-helen-hunt-alfonso-ribeiro/ OrlandoSentinel.Com Disney Narrators Include Helen Hunt]retrieved 08-21-2023

=2020s=

In 2020, Hunt appeared in the crime drama film The Night Clerk alongside Tye Sheridan.[https://deadline.com/2018/05/helen-hunt-ana-de-armas-john-leguizamo-the-night-clerk-movie-1202396672/ Helen Hunt, Ana de Armas & John Leguizamo Join 'The Night Clerk' Thriller] In December 2020, it was reported that Hunt would appear in a leading role in the Starz series Blindspotting, created by Daveed Diggs and Rafael Casal and based on their 2018 film of the same name.{{Cite web|last=Otterson|first=Joe|title=Helen Hunt joins 'Blindspotting' series at Starz|website=Variety|date=December 2, 2020|url=https://variety.com/2020/tv/news/blindspotting-series-starz-helen-hunt-1234844099/}}{{Cite web|last=Porter|first=Rick|title=Helen Hunt boards 'Blindspotting' series at Starz|website=The Hollywood Reporter|date=December 2, 2020|url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-feed/helen-hunt-boards-blindspotting-series-at-starz}} In September 2022, she starred in the European premiere of Eureka Day at The Old Vic theatre in London.{{Cite web |title=Cast joining Helen Hunt in Old Vic's Eureka Day announced {{!}} WhatsOnStage |url=https://www.whatsonstage.com/london-theatre/news/cast-helen-hunt-old-vic-eureka-day_57036.html |access-date=2022-08-21 |website=www.whatsonstage.com |date=July 29, 2022 |language=en-GB}}

Personal life

In 1994, Hunt started dating actor Hank Azaria. They married in 1999, and divorced 17 months later. In 2001, Hunt began a relationship with producer Matthew Carnahan. In 2004, they had a daughter.{{cite web|url=https://www.today.com/popculture/helen-hunt-mad-about-new-baby-girl-wbna5031760|title=Helen Hunt mad about new baby girl|date=May 21, 2004|publisher=Today|access-date=March 7, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190308080735/https://www.today.com/popculture/helen-hunt-mad-about-new-baby-girl-wbna5031760|archive-date=March 8, 2019|url-status=live}} The couple split in August 2017.{{cite web|url=http://www.eonline.com/news/873923/helen-hunt-and-matthew-carnahan-break-up-after-16-years|title=Helen Hunt and Matthew Carnahan Break Up After 16 Years|last=Johnson|first=Zach|work=E!|date=August 16, 2017|access-date=August 18, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170818093756/http://www.eonline.com/news/873923/helen-hunt-and-matthew-carnahan-break-up-after-16-years|archive-date=August 18, 2017|url-status=live}}{{cite web|url=http://www.realitytvworld.com/news/helen-hunt-splits-from-boyfriend-matthew-carnahan-after-16-years-together-1059044.php|title=Helen Hunt splits from boyfriend Matthew Carnahan after 16 years together|work=Reality TV World|date=August 17, 2017|access-date=August 18, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170818001308/http://www.realitytvworld.com/news/helen-hunt-splits-from-boyfriend-matthew-carnahan-after-16-years-together-1059044.php|archive-date=August 18, 2017|url-status=live}}

Hunt was one of the demonstrators at the 2017 Women's March held on January 21 in Los Angeles, California.{{cite news|url=http://www.elle.com/culture/career-politics/news/g29350/womens-march-washington-celebrities/|title=Celebrities Hit the Streets for Women's Marches Around the World|last1=Friedman|first1=Megan|last2=Matthews|first2=Lyndsey|work=Elle|date=January 21, 2017|access-date=January 29, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170210213807/http://www.elle.com/culture/career-politics/news/g29350/womens-march-washington-celebrities/|archive-date=February 10, 2017|url-status=live}}