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Linda Hunt (born April 2, 1945 in Morristown, New Jersey), is an Academy Award-winning American actress. Her movie debut occurred in 1980 in Robert Altman's musical comedy Popeye. She won the Oscar as Best Supporting Actress for her role as the male Chinese-Australian dwarf Billy Kwan in the film The Year of Living Dangerously in 1982. This made her the first actor to ever win an Oscar for playing a character of the opposite gender. Hilary Swank has since won an Academy Award for Best Actress for her role in the film "Boys Don't Cry" where she starred as a transgendered boy named Brandon.

Linda Hunt is also a well known stage actress, who has received two Obie awards and a Tony nomination for her theatre work. She created the role of Aunt Dan in Wallace Shawn's play Aunt Dan and Lemon. Recently, she portrayed Sister Aloysius in the Pasadena Playhouse production of John Patrick Shanley's Tony Award-winning play "Doubt."

Beside her acting abilities, Linda Hunt is distinguished by her small stature (she is 4' 9" or 1.45 m), and her rich, resonant voice, which she has used effectively in numerous documentaries, cartoons, and commercials. Linda Hunt is the on-air host for City Arts & Lectures, a radio program recorded by KQED public radio. She was chosen by Walt Disney Feature Animation to lend her enigmatic speaking and singing voice to "Grandmother Willow" in Pocahontas. Her voice work also includes the character of "Management", on US TV series Carnivàle and the Narrator in the God of War video game.

Filmography

• Nature, Christmas in Yellowstone (2006) - Narrator (voice)
• Stranger Than Fiction (2006)
• Auschwitz -- Inside the Nazi State (2005) - Narrator
• Yours, Mine and Ours (2005) - Mrs. Munion
• A Lot Like Love (2005) - Airline Attendant
• Dragonfly (2002) - Sister Madeline
• The Relic (1997) - Dr. Ann Cuthbert
• Eat Your Heart Out (1997) - Kathryn
• Pocahontas (1995) - Grandmother Willow (voice)
• Prêt-à-Porter (1994) - Regina Krumm
• Younger and Younger (1993) - Frances
• Twenty Bucks (1993) - Angeline
• Rain Without Thunder (1992) - Atwood Society Director
• If Looks Could Kill - Teen Agent (1991) - Ilsa Grunt
• Kindergarten Cop (1990) - Miss Schlowski
• Carmilla (1990) - Narrator
• She-Devil (1989) - Hooper
• Waiting for the Moon (1987) - Alice B. Toklas
• Eleni (1985) - Katina
• Silverado (1985) - Stella
• Dune (1984) - Shadout Mapes
• The Bostonians (1984) - Dr. Prance
• The Year of Living Dangerously (1982) - Billy Kwan – Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress
• Popeye (1980) - Mrs. Oxheart