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Bonnie Hunt

Bonnie Hunt
Bonnie Lynn Hunt was born on the 22nd September 1961 in Chicago in Illinois.
She co-founded An Impulsive Thing, an improvisational comedy troupe, with Holly Wortell, Andy Miller and John Gripentrog.
Bonnie starred in Davis Rules with Jonathan Winters, Randy Quaid, and Audrey Meadows and also in produced a sitcom called The Building with David Letterman.
Bonnie and David teamed up again for The Bonnie Hunt Show (later retitled Bonnie), which featured many of the same cast members as The Building and the same loose style.
She then starred in Life With Bonnie - a show known for clean and offbeat humour with Mark Derwin, Charlie Stewart, Marianne Muellerleile and David Alan Grier.
Bonnie wrote, directed and co-starred as Megan Dayton in the film called Return to Me with David Duchovny, Carroll O'Connor and Minnie Driver. It was filmed in her Chicago neighbourhood and included bit parts for a number of her relatives.
Other roles include Rain Man as Sally Dibbs with Tom Cruise, Valeria Golino and Dustin Hoffman, Beethoven as Alice Newton with Charles Grodin, Oliver Platt and Dean Jones and in Dave as the White House Tour Guide alongside Kevin Kline (in a dual role), Sigourney Weaver, Frank Langella, Kevin Dunn, Ving Rhames, Ben Kingsley and Laura Linney.
Bonnie has also starred in Beethoven's 2nd reprising her role of Alice Newton opposite Charles Grodin, Sarah Rose Karr and Christopher Penn, Only You as Kate Corvatch alongside Marisa Tomei and Robert Downey Jr and in Now and Then as Mrs. DeWitt with Christina Ricci, Demi Moore, Melanie Griffith, Rosie O'Donnell and Brendan Fraser.
Another roles was in Jumanji in a dual role as Sarah Whittle and Madam Serena with Robin Williams and Kirsten Dunst and in Cheaper By The Dozen as Kate Baker opposite Steve Martin and Alyson Stoner, then again as Kate Baker in Cheaper By The Dozen 2 again with Steve Martin and also alongside Piper Perabo.
She has also appeared in Getting Away with Murder as Dr. Gail Holland alongside Dan Aykroyd, Jack Lemmon and Lily Tomlin, Jerry Maguire as Laurel Boyd opposite Tom Cruise, Cuba Gooding Jr. and Renee Zellweger and as the voice of Rosie in A Bug's Life with Dave Foley and Kevin Spacey.
Bonnie has appeared in Kissing a Fool as Linda Streicher alongside David Schwimmer, Jason Lee and Mili Avital, Random Hearts as Wendy Judd opposite Harrison Ford, Kristin Scott-Thomas and Charles S. Dutton and in The Green Mile as Jan Edgecomb with Tom Hanks, Michael Clarke Duncan and James Cromwell.
She has voiced the part of Mrs Flint in Monsters, Inc. with John Goodman, Billy Crystal, Steve Buscemi, James Coburn and Jennifer Tilly and has starred in Stolen Summer as Margaret O'Malley opposite Aidan Quinn and Kevin Pollak.
Other roles include Loggerheads as Grace with Kip Pardue, Michael Kelly, Tess Harper and Adrian Lee, From Hair To Eternity as Martha Bakerson and in I Want Someone to Eat Cheese With as Stella Lewis with Jeff Garlin and Sarah Silverman.
Bonnie has voiced the part of Sally Carrera in Cars with Owen Wilson, Paul Newman and Michael Keaton and again as Sally in Cars 2 and in Mater and the Ghostlight .
Another role was in Subway Stories - Tales From The Underground as Fern McDermott with Ajay Naidu, Anne Heche and Bill Irwin and in Grand as Carol Anne Smithson with Pamela Reed.










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Bonnie Hunt - news / articles


  • Hunt stages Jerry Maguire reunion - 13 April 2009
    -Actress-turned-TV personality Bonnie Hunt staged a mini Jerry Maguire reunion on her chat show on Thursday (09Apr09) when she surprised co-star Regina King with a special guest.- -As the Ray star was trying to recall the films she had made with her Jerry Maguire hus


  • Hunt saved Clarke Duncan from Green Mile grilling - 25 February 2009
    -Michael Clarke Duncan's The Green Mile co-star Bonnie Hunt came to the rescue when the actor disappeared from the film's set to spend a week partying - she pretended they were having an affair.- -The actor landed in hot water after a crew member on the Nashville, Te

Bonnie Hunt - what members say


  • Only You
  • Only You review by from South Ayrshire
    Rated - 5.0 stars Favourite 8 July 2006
    ...nvolves Faith Corbach (Marisa Tomei) going to Italy, with her best friend Kate (Bonnie Hunt) in search of the mysterious Damon Bradley, whose name was spelt on an ouija bo...   Read customer review
  • Return to Me
  • Return to Me review by from Andover, Hampshire England
    Rated - 3.0 stars Have a Heart! 16 October 2008
    ... found it interesting that the debut feature film of Bonnie Hunt, who wrote, directed & acted in this sweet little Rom Com should have two British Actresses playing the l...   Read customer review
  • Cheaper By The Dozen 2
  • Cheaper By The Dozen 2 review by A customer from London
    Rated - 3.0 stars XxPretty goodxX 4 January 2009
    ...e some pretty good laughs in there and the acting was quite good (Steve Martin, Bonnie Hunt, Piper Perabo, Hilary Duff, Tom Welling, Eugene Levy, Alyson Stoner, Forrest La...   Read customer review

Bonnie Hunt - filmography


  • Cheaper By The Dozen 2 on DVD (2005)
    Starring: Steve Martin,  Bonnie Hunt,  Piper Perabo
    Director: Adam Shankman
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Steve Martin returns as the proud patriarch of the Baker family in this sequel to the original CHEAPER BY THE DOZEN, based on a book by Frank B. Gilbreth Jr. and Ernestine Gilbreth. This time, all twelve Baker kids and their parents, Tom (Martin) and Kate (Bonnie Hunt), are going on vacation, ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 62% from 21,470 members
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  • Cheaper By The Dozen on DVD (2003)
    Starring: Steve Martin,  Bonnie Hunt,  Alyson Stoner
    Director: Shawn Levy
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Tom Baker is offered a job as a Division One football coach and promptly moves his wife and twelve children to a leafy suburb of Chicago. The move unsettles the children and they start to go off the rails...
    3 stars out of 5 62% from 25,783 members
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  • Stolen Summer on DVD (2002)
    Starring: Aidan Quinn,  Bonnie Hunt,  Kevin Pollak
    Director: Pete Jones
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    On being told by a nun to follow the path of the lord and not of the devil, Pete, a young Catholic boy, decides to spend his summer vacation helping someone guarantee their entrance into heaven. Since his only knowledge of the divine comes from his upbringing, Pete decides to convert a Rabbi to the ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 60% from 120 members
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  • Return to Me on DVD (2000)
    Starring: Minnie Driver,  David Duchovny,  Carroll O'Connor
    Director: Bonnie Hunt
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
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    Return To Me is an endearing romantic comedy infused with real life humor. Life can change in an instant and it does for Bob Rueland and Grace Briggs. A lonely Bob is embraced by Grace, who is surrounded by a coterie of substitute mothers including her Irish grandfather, who with his Italian ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 62% from 4,722 members
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  • The Green Mile on DVD (1999)
    Starring: Tom Hanks,  Michael Clarke Duncan,  James Cromwell
    Director: Frank Darabont
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    A DVD collection of three dramatic American films: THE GREEN MILE (1999, 18), PAY IT FORWARD (2000, 13), and PROOF OF LIFE (2000, 15).THE GREEN MILE: Director Frank Darabont's second adaptation of a Stephen King prison tale (the first being 1994's nearly flawless THE SHAWSHANK REDEMPTION) is a ..read more »
    4 stars out of 5 80% from 71,365 members
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  • Random Hearts on DVD (1999)
    Starring: Harrison Ford,  Kristin Scott-Thomas,  Charles S. Dutton
    Director: Sydney Pollack
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Dutch Van Den Broeck is a sergeant in the Washington DC police department and Kay Chandler a New Hampshire congresswoman. Both of their careers and their marriages depend on trust - or so they thought until they are thrown together when Dutch's wife and Kay's husband perish in a plane crash. Their ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 54% from 835 members
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  • A Bug's Life - Blu-ray (1998)
    Starring: Kevin Spacey,  David Hyde Pierce,  Denis Leary
    Director: John Lasseter
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    The computer animation crew at Pixar--the creators of TOY STORY--return with another feature rife with stunningly rendered worlds populated by cute critters you can't help but care about. The story is simple--an ant colony led by Flik (Dave Foley) seeks help from a flea circus and other insects in ..read more »
    4 stars out of 5 78% from 713 members
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  • A Bug's Life on DVD (1998)
    Starring: Kevin Spacey,  David Hyde Pierce,  Denis Leary
    Director: John Lasseter
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    Life is no picnic for the ants on Ant Island! Each summer, a gang of greedy grasshoppers - led by the menacing and manipulative Hopper - descends upon the colony to demand a hefty portion of the ants' hard-earned harvest and generally make life miserable for this peaceful community. Our hero Flik,..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 69% from 28,841 members
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  • Jerry Maguire - Blu-ray (1996)
    Starring: Tom Cruise,  Cuba Gooding Jr.,  Renee Zellweger
    Director: Cameron Crowe
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Jerry Maguire (Tom Cruise), a slick, high-living sports agent, is tired of the shallowness of his profession and wants to live a more fulfilling, ethical life. But Jerry's new outlook doesn't mesh with his agency's ethics, and he is promptly fired. Jerry finds himself left with one ally, one client,..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 71% from 1,911 member
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  • Jerry Maguire on DVD (1996)
    Starring: Tom Cruise,  Cuba Gooding Jr.,  Renee Zellweger
    Director: Cameron Crowe
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Jerry Maguire is a man who knows the score. As a top agent at Sports Management International, Jerry is unquestionably a master of his universe. Trouble is -- Jerry's mind, mouth and soul are usually on automatic pilot. He's good at friendship, but (as his numerous ex-girlfriends testify) bad at ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 67% from 28,914 members
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  • Jumanji on DVD (1995)
    Starring: Robin Williams,  Kirsten Dunst,  Bonnie Hunt
    Director: Joe Johnston
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    A magical board game serves as a door to another dimension in this adventure fantasy based on Chris Van Allsburg's award-winning children's book. When a pair of orphans discover the game and start playing it, they unwittingly unleash a man (Robin Williams) who's been trapped inside--as well as an ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 65% from 16,342 members
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  • Jumanji - Blu-ray (1995)
    Starring: Robin Williams,  Kirsten Dunst,  Bonnie Hunt
    Director: Joe Johnston
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    A magical board game serves as a door to another dimension in this adventure fantasy based on Chris Van Allsburg's award-winning children's book. When a pair of orphans discover the game and start playing it, they unwittingly unleash a man (Robin Williams) who's been trapped inside--as well as an ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 70% from 182 members
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  • Only You on DVD (1994)
    Starring: Marisa Tomei,  Robert Downey Jr.,  Bonnie Hunt
    Director: Norman Jewison
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    In this romantic comedy an engaged woman goes to Italy to find out if the man her Ouija board said she was meant for actually exists. While there she meets and falls in love with a man who claims to be the one, and she must decide whether or not to trust fate.
    3 stars out of 5 61% from 5,481 members
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  • Beethoven's 2nd on DVD (1993)
    Starring: Charles Grodin,  Sarah Rose Karr,  Christopher Penn
    Director: Rod Daniel
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    Beethoven has fallen in love with the fetching Missy and is ready to settle down with a family of his own. Like it or not, George Newton, his hapless owner, is about to discover the meaning of chaos - times four! Tchaikovsky, Chubby, Dolly and Mo, a quartet of irresistible puppies that have ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 57% from 1,976 member
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  • Beethoven on DVD (1992)
    Starring: Bonnie Hunt,  Dean Jones,  Oliver Platt
    Director: Brian Levant
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    Feeling that something is lacking in their lives, the family of suburbanite Charles Grodin adopts a stray St. Bernard puppy. The cute lite beast grows up to be the less-than-cute Beethoven, a sloppy, slobbery, oversized and extremely destructive animal. Beethoven also brings with him a lot of ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 63% from 3,637 members
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  • Rain Man on DVD (1988)
    Starring: Tom Cruise,  Dustin Hoffman,  Valeria Golino
    Director: Barry Levinson
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
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    Self-centered, avaricious Californian Charlie Babbitt (Tom Cruise) is informed that his long-estranged father has died. Expecting at least a portion of the elder Babbitt's $3 million estate, Charlie learns that all he's inherited is his dad's prize roses and a 1949 Buick Roadmaster. Discovering ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 74% from 41,025 members
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  • Rain Man - Blu-ray (1988)
    Starring: Tom Cruise,  Dustin Hoffman,  Valeria Golino
    Director: Barry Levinson
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Watch now: £2.49
    Self-centered, avaricious Californian Charlie Babbitt (Tom Cruise) is informed that his long-estranged father has died. Expecting at least a portion of the elder Babbitt's $3 million estate, Charlie learns that all he's inherited is his dad's prize roses and a 1949 Buick Roadmaster. Discovering ..read more »
    4 stars out of 5 80% from 140 members
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Bonnie Hunt facts

5 most recent films

Cheaper By The Dozen 2 - 3.0 stars
Cheaper By The Dozen - 3.0 stars
Stolen Summer - 3.0 stars
Return to Me - 3.0 stars
The Green Mile - 4.0 stars

5 highest-rated films

The Green Mile - Blu-ray - 4.5 stars
The Green Mile - 4.0 stars
Rain Man - Blu-ray - 4.0 stars
A Bug's Life - Blu-ray - 4.0 stars
Rain Man - 3.5 stars

5 lowest-rated films

Subway Stories - Tales From The Underground - 3.0 stars
Random Hearts - 2.5 stars
Beethoven's 2nd - 3.0 stars
Stolen Summer - 3.0 stars
Only You - 3.0 stars

Most frequent co-stars

Tom Cruise - 7 times - show films
David Alan Grier - 6 times - show films
Jay Mohr - 4 times - show films
Eddie Jones - 4 times - show films
David Duchovny - 4 times - show films

Most frequent directors

Cameron Crowe - 4 times - show films
Barry Levinson - 3 times - show films
Barry Levinson - 3 times - show films
John Lasseter - 2 times - show films
Joe Johnston - 2 times - show films