HELEN ELIZABETH HUNT was born on the 15th June 1963 at 12:55pm at The Memorial Hospital of Southern California, Culver City (in the county of Los Angeles) Her parents are Gordon Hunt, a director and Jayne Hunt, a photographer- divorced in 1981 when Helen was just 18. She has a sister named Colleen,(older) and an Uncle named Peter Hunt, Artistic Director of Williamstown Theatre Festival and the Lobero Stage Company. and owns a white samoyed named 'Johnny'. She said to her father at the age of 6 that she wanted to be an actor and so began her journey of what became her Oscar winning career. After 3 years of studying acting, she hired an agent and appeared on The Mary Tyler Moore Show and made her debut in a television movie, 'Pioneer Woman'as a prairie girl. She then moved on to more TV movies and and tv series until she started to get recognised in the movie 'The Waterdance' in which she says she 'persued like a bloodhound' and finally her big break in the NBC comedy hit "Mad About You" created by actor/comedian/writer, Paul Reiser. HUNT attended and Graduated from Providence High School in Burbank CA from September 1978 through June1981, then preceeded to UCLA in 1982 to further her acting studies, but dropped out after just 2 months. She married her long time lover Hank Azaria on July 17th 1999.
