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Holly Hunter My life in pictures

Despite her almost 40 years in Hollywood, Holly Hunter relishes just being a neighbour out for a daily stroll.

“Self-care” for the actress during the pandemic has meant “monstrously long walks”, she explains in her unmistakable Southern drawl. “It’s just charting the course that I find kind of energising.”

The same could be said of her career. Starting onstage, the Georgia-raised Hunter, 62, quickly segued to the screen with breakthrough roles in and before winning an Oscar for 1993’s . The notoriously private actress, who’s raising her teenage twin sons with actor Gordon MacDonald, insists she has stayed grounded simply by “being a participant” in her own journey.

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