helen hunt

     

In 1998 she became the only woman to win an Oscar & an Emmy for Lead Actress in the same year

Trivia about helen hunt

  • Hours before she won her Oscar, she agreed to return to "Mad About You", for $1 million an episode
  • This "Mad About You" star played the cute girl next door on the '70s drama "The Fitzpatricks"
  • The difference between her "Mad About You" Emmys & her Oscar was that the Oscar was "Thinner and without wings"
  • She won a 1993 Emmy for playing an impulsive public relations executive & a 1997 Oscar for playing a waitress
  • Hank Azaria & this actress split up after less than a year of marriage; maybe they weren't so mad about each other
  • On winning her third Golden Globe, she graciously said half of it "belongs...to Paul Reiser"
  • This star of "Twister" made her TV debut in an episode of "The Mary Tyler Moore Show"
  • She played Eric Stoltz' girlfriend in "The Waterdance", & he played her old boyfriend on "Mad About You"
  • On the '80s sitcom "It Takes Two!", Anthony Edwards & this "Mad About You" star played Patty Duke's teenage kids
  • We're "mad about" this sitcom star who played Jessica Walter's daughter on the '70s series "Amy Prentiss"
  • "As Good As It Gets"(Oscar)&"Mad About You"(Emmy)
  • After her single mom/waitress turn in "As Good as It Gets", she played a single mom/Vegas waitress in "Pay it Forward"