Linda HuntLinda Hunt (born April 2, 1945) is an American actress. Her best known roles are as the male half-Chinese dwarf Billy Kwan in the movie The Year of Living Dangerously (1982) (for which she won an Academy Award as Best Supporting Actress) and as Judge Zoey Hiller on the television series The Practice. Her movie debut was in the film Popeye. Beside her acting abilities, her two most distinguishing characteristics are her small stature (she is 4' 9" or 1.45 m), and her rich, resonant voice which she has used effectively in numerous documentaries, cartoons, and commercials. Linda Hunt is the announcer for the KQED public radio lecture/interview show City Arts & Lectures. Selected Filmography
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Linda Hunt is the announcer for the KQED public radio lecture/interview show City Arts & Lectures. Partial Filmography:. Beside her acting abilities, her two most distinguishing characteristics are her small stature (she is 4' 9" or 1.45 m), and her rich, resonant voice which she has used effectively in numerous documentaries, cartoons, and commercials. Véra Korène died in 1996 in Louveciennes in a senior citizens home and was interred in the Cimetière de Pantin in the Parisian suburb of Pantin. Her movie debut was in the film Popeye. In 1956 she was named director of the Théâtre de la Renaissance, a position she held until 1978. Her best known roles are as the male half-Chinese dwarf Billy Kwan in the movie The Year of Living Dangerously (1982) (for which she won an Academy Award as Best Supporting Actress) and as Judge Zoey Hiller on the television series The Practice. Using the francized name Korène, she began her career in the theatre but also appeared in a number of films during the 1930s. A mainstay of the Parisian stage, in the 1950s she organized her own theatre production company, putting on performances at the Comédie Française. Linda Hunt (born April 2, 1945) is an American actress. Born Rébecca Véra Korestzky in Russia of Jewish extraction, she fled the Revolution and settled in Paris, France. Linda Hunt's Internet Movie Database entry (http://us.imdb.com/name/nm0001373/). Véra Korène born June 6, 1901 - died November 19, 1996, was a Russian-born French actress and singer. Fame (1978). La brigade sauvage (1939). Space Rangers (1993). Café de Paris (1938). The Practice (1997). La danseuse rouge, 1937 (The Red Dancer) (1937). Popeye (1980). Double crime sur la ligne Maginot (1937). The Year of Living Dangerously (1982). Tamara la complaisante (1937). Dune (1984). Deuxième Bureau (Second Bureau) (1936). Silverado (1985). Au service du tsar (1936). Kindergarten Cop (1990). Le batelier de la Volga (1936). Pocahontas (1995). L'argent (1936). une femme (1936). Sept hommes.. Belle de nuit (1933). La voix sans visage (1933). |