For Holly Hunter, a case of the mumps when she was a child caused deafness in her left ear. The disability didn't prevent her from learning to play the piano when she was 9, a skill she used for her role as a mute woman living in the 1850s in "The Piano." The effort won her an Oscar for Best Actress (1993).

What has Holly Hunter doing now? Hunter's last movie role was in Incredibles 2 in 2018. While she's overdue for a return to the big screen, she's still been keeping busy. In 2019, she guest-starred on the buzzy drama Succession as a media CEO, and most recently she had a lead role as the deputy mayor of LA in Mr.

Early life Hunter was born in Conyers, Georgia, the daughter of Marguerite "Dee Dee" (née Catledge), a homemaker, and Charles Edwin Hunter, a part-time sporting goods company representative and farmer with a 250-acre farm. She is the youngest of six children.