Bonnie Hunt Biography

Bonnie Hunt was born September 22, 1961 and is an American
actress, comedienne, writer, director, television producer and daytime
television host.

Hunt refused to become a cast member of Saturday Night Live because the shows
producers generally frowned on her preferred improvisational style. In 1992,
she turned down a higher-paying role on Designing Women to co-star in Davis
Rules with Jonathan Winters, Randy Quaid, and Audrey Meadows.

In 1993, Hunt teamed with good friend David Letterman to
produce The Building, a short-lived sitcom that was modeled after early-1950s
television shows. The show was also filmed live; mistakes, accidents, and
forgotten lines were often left in the aired episode. Hunt and Letterman
re-teamed in 1995 with The Bonnie Hunt Show (later retitled Bonnie), which
featured many of the same cast members as The Building and the same loose
style. The show was praised by critics but was canceled after 11 of the 13
episodes produced were aired. In 2002, Hunt returned to television with Life
with Bonnie, a show known for clean and offbeat humor. Her role on that show
earned her a 2004 Emmy nomination, her first. Despite fair ratings, the show
was canceled in its second season. Hunt announced on Live with Regis and Kelly
that ABC had offered her another sitcom, in which she would have played a
divorced detective. This pilot, Let Go (also known as Crimes and Dating), was
not picked up for the fall 2006 schedule.

Hunt wrote, directed, and co-starred in the 2000 film Return
to Me, a romantic comedy starring David Duchovny and Minnie Driver. It was
filmed in her Chicago neighborhood and included bit parts for a number of her
relatives.

A recognizable film actress, Hunt has starred as Alice
Newton opposite Charles Grodin in the popular childrens films Beethoven and
Beethovens 2nd. She played opposite Robin Williams in Jumanji as well as
opposite Steve Martin in Cheaper by the Dozen and its sequel. She played the
sister of Renée Zellweger in the movie Jerry Maguire and Jan Edgecomb opposite
Tom Hanks in the film adaptation of the Stephen King novel The Green
Mile. Also, she played the biological mother, Grace Bellamy, of Mark
Austin (played by Kip Pardue) in Loggerheads, a 2005 independent film written
and directed by Tim Kirkman. In addition to starring in Pixars Cars as the
voice of Sally Carrera, Hunt received a writing credit on the film as well.

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