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Helen Elizabeth Hunt (born June 15, 1963) is an American actress, film director, and screenwriter. She starred in the sitcom Mad About You for seven years, and played single mother Carol Connelly in the 1997 romantic comedy film As Good as It Gets, for which she won the Academy Award for Best Actress. Some of her other notable films include Twister, Cast Away, What Women Want, Pay It Forward, and The Sessions, the later for which she received an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress. She made her directorial debut in 2007 with Then She Found Me. In addition to her Oscar, Hunt has won four Emmy awards, four Golden Globe awards, and two Screen Actors Guild awards.
Hunt was born in Culver City, California. Her mother, Jane Elizabeth (née Novis), worked as a photographer, and her father, Gordon Hunt, is a film, voice and stage director and acting coach. Her uncle, Peter H. Hunt, is also a director. Her maternal grandmother, Dorothy (Anderson) Fries, was a voice coach. Hunt's paternal grandmother was from a German Jewish family, while Hunt's other grandparents were of English descent (her maternal grandfather was born in England), with a Methodist religious background. When she was three, Hunt's family moved to New York City, where her father directed theater and Hunt attended plays as a child several times a week. Hunt studied ballet, and briefly attended UCLA.
The first time I saw you
Was the day that I hit puberty
You played a beautiful girl
Shunned by society
It wasn't your fault
You just smoked one laced doobie
That after school special
Made me wanna never do PCP
Helen Hunt, Helen Hunt
You make my heart do acrobatic stunts
You stand and face the brunt
Of the twister of my burning want
Helen Hunt, you know I'm mad about you
I saw you naked in the waterdance
It was as good as it gets, in my pants
And for that I really want to thank you
Your husband's name was Hank right? Well my name is Hank too
Helen Hunt, Helen Hunt
You make my heart do acrobatic stunts
You stand and face the brunt
Of the twister of my burning want
Helen Hunt, you know I'm mad about you
Once an ex-best friend of mine said he couldn't see
How an old and ugly actress could mean so much to me
Well a minute later looking down at him bleeding in the snow
I asked him who was best comedy actress four years in a row
Helen Hunt, Helen Hunt
You make my heart do acrobatic stunts
You stand and face the brunt
Of the twister of my burning want
Helen Hunt, you know I'm mad about you