Description:
Linda Hunt is a veteran character actress who had only just begun acting in motion pictures when director Peter Weir required her peculiarities to animate one of cinema's most esoteric characters, Billy Kwan, the intellectual and virtuous Chinese-Australian dwarf and photographer, in the Australian romantic drama, The Year of Living Dangerously (1982). Hunt's work in the film earned an Oscar, among many critic awards, all for Best Supporting Actress.
Birthday
April 2, 1945
Born In
Morristown, New Jersey, USA
Height
145 cm
Spouse/Ex-
Karen Klein 2008 - present ()
Parents
Elsie Doying
Trivia
The first actor to have won an Academy Award portraying a member of the
opposite sex, she won the Best Actress in a Supporting Role Oscar for
her role as Billy Kwan in The Year of Living Dangerously (1982). Note this was not Linda Hunt playing
a woman pretending to be a man, like Barbra Streisand did in Yentl (1983) or, in
reverse, as Dustin Hoffman did in Tootsie (1982), but Hunt playing a man in a serious
drama.
Quotes
Everybody either wanted to take care of me or push me around, you know? I was teased a lot, sure I was, of course. Fourth grade, fifth grade, sixth grade, everybody was taking their spurts except me. I was not growing up.
Trademarks
Deep husky voice
