Helen Hunt | Filmmaker & Director

 

Academy and Emmy Award-winning actress Helen Hunt is notable for her roles in the film As Good As It Gets and the sitcom Mad About You. She earned her first screen credit in the television movie Pioneer Woman in 1973. Later on, Hunt starred in the acclaimed medical drama St. Elsewhere in the 1980s before portraying the character of Jamie Buchman in the hit sitcom of the 1990s, Mad About You, for which she received four Emmys.

The award-winning celebrity performed in the box-office hit films Twister, Castaway, and What Women Want. She won an Academy Award in As Good As It Gets and a nomination for her performance in The Sessions. For a time, Hunt stepped back from the limelight but ventured into a path of filmmaking and directing and shared that she was glad to have the opportunity to craft her own stories.