# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/linda-hunt
# Generated: 2026-08-14T06:40:01.177Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/linda-hunt"
name: "Linda Hunt"
slug: "linda-hunt"
description: "Linda Hunt is an American actress. She made her film debut playing Mrs. Oxheart in Popeye (1980). Her portrayal of the male character Billy Kwan in The Year of Living Dangerously (1982) won her the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress, making her the first person to win an Oscar for portraying a character of the opposite sex. Hunt has also appeared in films such as Dune (1984), Silverado (1985), Eleni (1985), Kindergarten Cop (1990), Pocahontas (1995), Pocahontas II: Journey to a New World (1998), and Stranger Than Fiction (2006)."
tagline: "American actress"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Linda_Hunt.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Actors"
  slug: "actors"
profileType:
  name: "Actor"
  slug: "actor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1945-04-02"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           58.03
  momentum:             0
  historical:           25.11887733333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001373/"
    handle:    "nm0001373"
sources:
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    title: "Discogs"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "לינדה האנט"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikidata"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump