Linda Hunt

Born in Morristown, N.J., on April 2, 1945, Linda Hunt is the only actor to have won an Oscar for portraying a member of the opposite sex: She received the Best Actress in a Supporting Role Award for her performance as wartime photographer Billy Kwan in 1982's The Year of Living Dangerously.

Since then, Hunt has given strong performances as liberated doctor Mary Prance in the Merchant Ivory film The Bostonians (1984), as Stella the saloon-keeper in Lawrence Kasdan's Western Silverado (1985) and as Alice B. Toklas in Waiting for the Moon (1987).

Other notable films include Dune (1984), Eleni (1985), She-Devil (1989), Kindergarten Cop (1990) and Ready to Wear (1994). Hunt has also done many commercial and documentary voice-overs, in addition to voicing characters for animated movies, including Pocahontas and Pocahontas II.

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