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Linda Hunt Wins Supporting Actress: 1984 Oscars - YouTube

Dyan Cannon and Gene Hackman present the Supporting Actress Oscar to Linda Hunt for The Year of Living Dangerously at the 56th Academy Awards.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j0limwxq_xs
Linda Hunt - Wikipedia

Lydia Susanna Hunter (born April 2, 1945), better known by her stage name Linda Hunt, is an American film, stage, and television actress.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linda_Hunt
Linda Hunt - Awards - IMDb

Linda Hunt on IMDb: Awards, nominations, and wins
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001373/awards
Linda Hunt Wins Supporting Actress: 1984 Oscars - Video Dailymotion

Linda Hunt Wins Supporting Actress: 1984 Oscars
https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x2o3per
Linda Hunt Wins the Oscar

Linda Hunt won the Oscar for Best Supporting Actress for the 1983 film THE YEAR OF LIVING DANGEROUSLY. It was the first time an actor won an Oscar for portraying a character of the opposite sex.
http://oscar.go.com/video/90-stories-from-90-years-2/linda-hunts-big-win
Linda Hunt, 1984 Best Supporting Actress from 10 Super Surprising Oscar Winners | E! News

The NCIS: Los Angeles star remains the only female Oscar recipient who won for playing a man. Not a woman dressed as a man, or a woman who wants to be a man—just a man who befriends (or does he?) Mel Gibson, in The Year of Living Dangerously.
https://www.eonline.com/photos/4661/10-super-surprising-oscar-winners/172650
The Year of Living Dangerously rewatched – Linda Hunt is unforgettable | Film | The Guardian

What a bold yet strangely sensible turn of casting by Peter Weir: hiring a woman to play a man simply because she was the best fit for the part, writes Luke Buckmaster
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2015/jan/09/the-year-of-living-dangerously-rewatched-linda-hunt-unforgettable
Academy Awards Acceptance Speeches - Linda Hunt

Read the whole transcript of her speech here.
http://aaspeechesdb.oscars.org/link/056-4
Overview for Linda Hunt

Get biography information about Linda Hunt on tcm.com
http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/person/90862|0/Linda-Hunt/

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Linda Hunt
Hunt in 2015
Born	Lydia Susanna Hunt (1945-04-02) April 2, 1945 (age 80)^[1] Morristown, New Jersey, U.S. ^[1]
Education	Art Institute of Chicago (BFA)
Occupation	Actress
Years active	1972–2023
Height	145 cm (4 ft 9 in)
Spouse	Karen Kline ( m. 2008)
Awards	Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress (1983)

Source : Wikipedia under CC-BY-SA license

Linda Hunt Wins Supporting Actress: 1984 Oscars - YouTube

Dyan Cannon and Gene Hackman present the Supporting Actress Oscar to Linda Hunt for The Year of Living Dangerously at the 56th Academy Awards.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j0limwxq_xs
Linda Hunt - Wikipedia

Lydia Susanna Hunter (born April 2, 1945), better known by her stage name Linda Hunt, is an American film, stage, and television actress.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linda_Hunt
Linda Hunt - Awards - IMDb

Linda Hunt on IMDb: Awards, nominations, and wins
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001373/awards
Linda Hunt Wins Supporting Actress: 1984 Oscars - Video Dailymotion

Linda Hunt Wins Supporting Actress: 1984 Oscars
https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x2o3per
Linda Hunt Wins the Oscar

Linda Hunt won the Oscar for Best Supporting Actress for the 1983 film THE YEAR OF LIVING DANGEROUSLY. It was the first time an actor won an Oscar for portraying a character of the opposite sex.
http://oscar.go.com/video/90-stories-from-90-years-2/linda-hunts-big-win
Linda Hunt, 1984 Best Supporting Actress from 10 Super Surprising Oscar Winners | E! News

The NCIS: Los Angeles star remains the only female Oscar recipient who won for playing a man. Not a woman dressed as a man, or a woman who wants to be a man—just a man who befriends (or does he?) Mel Gibson, in The Year of Living Dangerously.
https://www.eonline.com/photos/4661/10-super-surprising-oscar-winners/172650
The Year of Living Dangerously rewatched – Linda Hunt is unforgettable | Film | The Guardian

What a bold yet strangely sensible turn of casting by Peter Weir: hiring a woman to play a man simply because she was the best fit for the part, writes Luke Buckmaster
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2015/jan/09/the-year-of-living-dangerously-rewatched-linda-hunt-unforgettable
Academy Awards Acceptance Speeches - Linda Hunt

Read the whole transcript of her speech here.
http://aaspeechesdb.oscars.org/link/056-4
Overview for Linda Hunt

Get biography information about Linda Hunt on tcm.com
http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/person/90862|0/Linda-Hunt/

Linda Hunt
Hunt in 2015
Born	Lydia Susanna Hunt (1945-04-02) April 2, 1945 (age 80)^[1] Morristown, New Jersey, U.S. ^[1]
Education	Art Institute of Chicago (BFA)
Occupation	Actress
Years active	1972–2023
Height	145 cm (4 ft 9 in)
Spouse	Karen Kline ( m. 2008)
Awards	Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress (1983)

Source : Wikipedia under CC-BY-SA license

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