Biography
Linda Hunt (born April 2, 1945) is an American film, stage and television actress. She is perhaps best known for her Academy Award-winning role in 1982's The Year of Living Dangerously. She is currently portraying the role of Henrietta "Hetty" Lange, Office of Special Projects Operations Manager on the CBS Television series NCIS: Los Angeles.
Known For
Complete Filmography

Solo: A Star Wars Story
2018
as Lady Proxima (voice)
Through a series of daring escapades deep within a dark and dangerous criminal underworld, Han Solo meets his mighty future copilot Chewbacca and enco...

The Relationtrip
2017
as Dr. Lipschweiss
After bonding over their mutual disinterest in relationships, self-proclaimed loners, Beck and Liam, decide to go away together on a ‘friend’ trip whe...

And the Oscar Goes To...
2014
as Self (archive footage)
The story of the gold-plated statuette that became the film industry's most coveted prize, AND THE OSCAR GOES TO... traces the history of the Academy ...

The Polio Crusade
2009
as Self - Narrator (voice)
The film interweaves the personal accounts of polio survivors with the story of an ardent crusader who tirelessly fought on their behalf while scienti...

The Making of God of War II
2007
as Gaia
A documentary following the cast and crew as they craft one of the best action adventure games on the PlayStation 2.

The Singing Revolution
2006
as Self - Narrator
Most people don't think about singing when they think about revolutions. But song was the weapon of choice when, between 1986 and 1991, Estonians soug...

Christmas in Yellowstone
2006
as Narrator
NATURE presents Christmas in Yellowstone, a breathtaking look at wintertime deep within America’s first national park. NATURE follows in the snowy fo...

Stranger Than Fiction
2006
as Dr. Mittag-Leffler
Harold Crick is a lonely IRS agent whose mundane existence is transformed when he hears a mysterious voice narrating his life.

The Path to Nuclear Fission: The Story of Lise Meitner and Otto Hahn
2006
as Narrator (voice)
A story about the life and turbulent times of Lisa Meitner and Otto Hahn, two exceptional scientists whose remarkable collaboration culminated in the ...

Yours, Mine & Ours
2005
as Mrs. Munion
Admiral Frank Beardsley returns to New London to run the Coast Guard Academy, his last stop before a probable promotion to head the Guard. A widower w...

Jimmy Carter
2002
as Narrator (voice)
Jimmy Carter ran for president on a wave of post-Watergate disaffection with Washington politics. But inexperience, inflation, recession, and the Iran...

Dragonfly
2002
as Sister Madeline
A grieving doctor is being contacted by his late wife through his patient's near death experiences.

Woodrow Wilson
2002
as Narrator (voice)
A gifted orator, Woodrow Wilson was supremely confident before crowds, yet uneasy in small groups. An intellectual with inflexible moral principles, h...

Who Owns the Past?
2000
as Narrator (voice)
This documentary, narrated by Academy Award winner Linda Hunt and directed by Jed Riffe, tells the story of how the discovery of a 9,000-year-old skel...

Island of the Sharks
1999
as Narrator (voice)
A magnificent expedition 300 miles west of Costa Rica spotlights the remote animal sanctuary of Cocos Island. Its amazing underwater world has some of...

Pocahontas II: Journey to a New World
1998
as Grandmother Willow (voice)
When news of John Smith's death reaches America, Pocahontas is devastated. She sets off to London with John Rolfe, to meet with the King of England on...

Out of the Past
1998
as Narrator
In 1995, Kelli Peterson started a gay and straight club at her Salt Lake City high school. The story of her ensuing battle with school authorities in ...

Influenza 1918
1998
as Narrator
Influenza 1918 is the story of the worst epidemic the United States has ever known. Before it was over, the flu would kill more than 600,000 Americans...

Isamu Noguchi: Stones and Paper
1997
Isamu Noguchi was a sculptor, designer, architect, and craftsman. Throughout his life he struggled to see, alter, and recreate his natural surrounding...
Sunset Boulevard - 27 Meilen Amerika
1997
as Self (uncredited)
Schmidt follows the 27 miles of the “street of life” to Pacific Palisades, where the boulevard ends at the ocean. While interviews with celebrities f...

The Relic
1997
as Dr. Ann Cuthbert
A homicide detective teams up with an evolutionary biologist to hunt a giant creature that is killing people in a Chicago museum.

Amazon
1997
as Narrator (voice)
Explore the mysterious Amazon through the amazing IMAX experience. Amazon celebrates the beauty, vitality and wonder of the rapidly disappearing rain ...

Paul Monette: The Brink of Summer's End
1997
as narrator
Narrated by Linda Hunt, this documentary examines the life of the late author and gay rights activist Paul Monette. Born in 1945 to a well-off Massach...

Titanic: Untold Stories
1997
as Narrator
The gripping personal accounts of the people and the tragedy. In never-before-seen footage, we journey with historian Charles Haas, as he descends in...

Eat Your Heart Out
1997
as Kathryn
A womanizer gets his own cooking show and, ironically, the females who call in end up airing their relationship problems to him.

Rain of Ruin: The Bombing of Nagasaki
1995
as Self - Narrator (voice)
Scholars and eyewitnesses provide a picture of the 75 hours between the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki and document the contradictions, int...

Pocahontas
1995
as Grandmother Willow (voice)
Pocahontas, daughter of a Native American tribe chief, falls in love with an English soldier as colonists invade 17th century Virginia.

Prêt-à-Porter
1994
as Regina Krumm
During Paris Fashion Week, models, designers and industry hot shots gather to work, mingle, argue and try to seduce one another.

Ishi, the Last Yahi
1994
as Narrator (voice)
Linda Hunt narrates this documentary look at Ishi, the last survivor of the Yahi Native American tribe following massacres in California in the late 1...

Twenty Bucks
1993
as Angeline
A story about the life of a twenty dollar bill as it weaves in and out of the various lives of several people.

Younger and Younger
1993
as Frances
The eccentric owner of a Los Angeles self-storage company finds his world come crashing down when his long-suffering wife dies, only to return as a be...

Rain Without Thunder
1993
as Atwood Society Director
This evocative faux documentary imagines a dystopian near future in which the government monitors every woman's sexual activity. At its center is Alli...

Nonsense and Lullabyes: Poems
1992
as (voice)
This animated anthology is comprised of eighteen updated nursery rhymes and features such celebrity narrators as Eli Wallach, Linda Hunt and Karen All...

Nonsense and Lullabyes: Nursery Rhymes
1992
as (voice)
This animated anthology is comprised of eighteen updated nursery rhymes and features such celebrity narrators as Eli Wallach, Linda Hunt and Karen All...
Wild by Law
1991
as Narrator
Tells about the Wilderness Act of 1964 and the three men responsible for its passage: forester/philosopher Aldo Leopold, author of the bestselling San...

If Looks Could Kill
1991
as Ilsa Grunt
Michael Corben, along with the rest of his high-school French class, sets out for a trip to France when he is mistaken for an agent of the same name. ...

Kindergarten Cop
1990
as Miss Schlowski
Hard-edged cop John Kimble gets more than he bargained for when he goes undercover as a kindergarten teacher to get the goods on a brutal drug lord wh...

She-Devil
1989
as Hooper
A cunning and resourceful housewife vows revenge on her husband when he begins an affair with a wealthy romance novelist.

Carmilla
1989
as Narrator (voice)
Lonely young Marie and her father live on a plantation just before the Civil War. Their placid lives are invaded when they rescue a mysterious woman f...

The Turn of the Screw
1989
as Title Opening (voice)
A governess is hired to look after two neglected children, who show signs of having been corrupted by the insidious influence of the groom Peter Quint...

Waiting for the Moon
1987
as Alice B. Toklas
Fictionalized portrait of one of history's great literary couples: Stein & Toklas. Summer 1930s France, Alice tends to ailing Gertrude; they visit Fer...

Basements
1987
as Rose (segment "The Room")
Basements is the title for the omnibus film that brings together two plays by Harold Pinter – The Dumb Waiter and The Room – each, once again, set in ...

The Room Upstairs
1987
as Mrs. Sanders
A Boston teacher decides to turn her old home into a boarding house to pull in some much-needed extra money. It turns out her tenants help her in more...

Louise Brooks
1986
as Narrator
55-Minute BBC Arena documentary on the film actress Louise Brooks

Eleni
1985
as Katina
Nick is a writer in New York when he gets posted to a bureau in Greece. He has waited 30 years for this. He wants to know why his mother was killed in...

Silverado
1985
as Stella
Four unwitting heroes cross paths on their journey to the sleepy town of Silverado. Little do they know the town where their family and friends reside...

Dune
1984
as Shadout Mapes
In the year 10,191, the most precious substance in the universe is the spice Melange. The spice extends life. The spice expands consciousness. The spi...

The Bostonians
1984
as Dr. Prance
A bored lawyer and a suffragette vie for the attention of a faith healer's charismatic daughter.

The Year of Living Dangerously
1982
as Billy Kwan
Australian journalist Guy Hamilton travels to Indonesia to cover civil strife in 1965. There—on the eve of an attempted coup—he befriends a Chinese Au...

Popeye
1980
as Mrs. Oxheart
Popeye is a super-strong, spinach-scarfing sailor man who's searching for his father. During a storm that wrecks his ship, Popeye washes ashore and wi...

Fame
1978
as Mona
A waiter becomes a sudden overnight success as a playwright, and then begins negotiations with an Italian movie director to turn his play into a film....

Ah, Wilderness!
1976
as Nora
On the Fourth of July holiday in 1906, the Miller family prepares to celebrate in their New England home. Young Richard, 16, is a thoughtful and poeti...
The Hunt for Pancho Villa
N/A
as Self - Narrator
Just before dawn on March 9, 1916, a band of Mexican revolutionaries loyal to General Francisco “Pancho” Villa crossed the border into the United Stat...