Since she was little, she was sure that she wanted to be an actress, and she proposed to study hard and improve herself every day in order to achieve that goal.
The first jobs she developed in the media industry were for television when she was still very young, not even a teenager.
His first production appearance was the made-to-air movie “Pioneer Woman”From 1973, which tells the story of a western family who must decide to return to the east when their father is murdered.
A short time later, in 1975, she could be seen in two other telefilms: “Death scream” Y “All Together Now”. The first was a policeman while the second presented her as one of the 30 orphans who had to save her home.
His artistic life continued in this way with many appearances for television, both in series and in films made for this format.
Among some of the series in which he participated, we can highlight “Swiss Family Robinson”,”Mary Tyler Moore“,”The Facts of Life” Y “Familia“, among many others.
In 1985 he made his first appearance in a big screen production with the feature film “Trancers”, A story of action in the future.
This film became something of a cult product, which later featured her in its other two installments.
Also in 1987 he acted with the emerging Matthew broderick in the science fiction film “X Proyect“, Where both had to care for altered chimpanzees in a laboratory.
In 1992 she rose to stardom by becoming the protagonist, along with Paul reiser, from the sitcom of the NBC “Mad about you”Which quickly achieved great success and ran until 1999.
The story in narrated the events and adventures that a newly married couple must live in New York, and converted Hunt in the highest paid actress of the time, earning $ 1 million per episode.
For her work in this series, the actress won the awards Emmy to Best actress 1996, 1997, 1998 and 1999 and the Golden globes from 1994, 1995, 1997, 1998 in the same category
Furthermore, in 1998, at the peak of his career, he received the Academy Award What Best actress, for the movie “Best Impossible“, next to Jack Nicholson Y Cuba Gooding Jr.
After retiring for a while from the screens, Hunt returned to record in the year 2000 a romantic comedy with Richard Gere, Farrah fawcett, Tara reid Y Liv tyler among others, called “Dr. T and the women”.
That same year it could also be seen in the award-winning “Pay it Forward” next to Haley Joel Osment and the already consecrated Kevin Spacey Y Jon Bon Jovi.
To close this tremendous return to theaters, Hunt acted alongside Tom Hanks in the movie “Shipwrecked”Where she played the wife of the intrepid castaway, and that same year she starred alongside Mel Gibson the romantic comedy “What do women think about?“, In which he competes against the gallant for a position in the advertising company where they are.
After all this, the actress decided to retire for a time from the screens to work on Broadway, and in turn set up a production company under the protection of Sony Pictures who you called Hunt / Tavel Productions.
In recent years, the actress worked on the titles “The curse of the jade scorpion“, with Woody Allen Y Elizabeth berkley, “A Good Woman“,”Bobby”, In which he worked together with Anthony Hopkins, Demi moore, Emilio Estevez Y Laurence fishburne, “When it found me“, Which co-starred with Bette midler, and in 2010 he premiered the comedy “Cada dia”.
For 2011 it can be seen in the tapes “Aline & Wolfe“,”Relative Insanity” Y “Soul surfer”, All of them currently in different stages of production.
Regarding her personal life, the actress was married to the actor Hank Azaria between 1999 and 2000.