She earned acting’s highest honor for an acclaimed historical drama that helped cement Mel Gibson’s rise to international stardom.
She has worked steadily in film since then, with roles in movies including Dune (1984), Kindergarten Cop (1990) and Solo: A Star Wars Story (2018).
This 80-year-old actress has also been an in-demand star on television, where she is best known for her lengthy runs on The Practice and NCIS: Los Angeles.
But her acting roles have grown scarcer in recent years, and she hasn’t been seen on television since 2023.
Can you guess who this acclaimed actress is?
The star, now 80, earned acting’s highest honor for an acclaimed historical drama that helped cement Mel Gibson’s rise to international stardom
She’s Linda Hunt, who is best known for winning the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for 1982’s The Year Of Living Dangerously.
Hunt was spotted out in Los Angeles in photos obtained by the Daily Mail on a rare sighting as she went out for a walk with her longtime wife Karen Kline and an assistant.
She was dressed casually in a white T-shirt with a comical drawing of a dog on the chest, along with pale gray jeans and black New Balance trainers.
Her wife, who is a psychotherapist, wore a black-and-white striped T-shirt with a gray hoodie tied around her waist and blue jeans.
The two have been together going back to 1978, and they finally tied the knot thirty years later in 2008.
Hunt appeared to require some help to get around, and she held her arms out for her wife and an accompanying assistant to hold her hands.
Hunt holds the rare distinction of being the first person to win an acting Oscar for playing a person of the opposite sex.
She played Billy Kwan, a Chinese–Australian photographer working with an Australian correspondent (played by Mel Gibson) covering the abortive military coup in the mid-’60s that later led the country’s president to be replaced by a right-wing military general.
She’s Linda Hunt, who is best known for winning the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for 1982’s The Year Of Living Dangerously
She played Billy Kwan, a Chinese–Australian photographer working with an Australian correspondent (Mel Gibson) covering the abortive military coup in the mid-’60s that later reshaped the country’s government; still from The Year Of Living Dangerously
Hunt holds the rare distinction of being the first person to win an acting Oscar for playing a person of the opposite sex; seen at the 1983 ceremony
Hunt was spotted out in Los Angeles on a rare sighting as she went out for a walk with her longtime wife Karen Kline and an assistant Hunt has been with her wife, a psychotherapist, since 1978.
They tied the knot three decades later in 2008Hunt appeared to require some help to get around, and she held her arms out for her wife and an accompanying assistant to hold her hands