Holly Hunter was born in Conyers, Georgia on March 20th, 1958, the daughter of Charles Edwin Hunter, a part-time sporting goods manufacturer's representative and part-time farmer with 250 acres, and Opal Marguerite Catledge, a homemaker. The youngest of seven children, Holly was encouraged by her parents to pursue her acting talent at an early age, and she landed her first gig as Helen Keller in a fifth-grade play.
After a comfortable small-town upbringing, Holly ventured north for some serious acting training. She found it at Pittsburgh's Carnegie Mellon University under Jorge Guerra, and then hopped over to New York City to try to live the dream. Serendipity was on her side when the young talent found herself more...
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