Academy Award-winner Helen Hunt plans on-stage interviews at Plaza Classic Film Festival
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If you’re a fan mad about Helen Hunt, you can see the Academy- and Emmy Award-winning actor, director, writer and producer when she appears at the El Paso Community Foundation Plaza Classic Film Festival.
The annual celebration of films returns for its 16th year July 20-30 in and around the Plaza Theatre in Downtown.
Hunt will be on-stage during prescreening interviews ahead of 1997’s “As Good As It Gets,” for which she won the Oscar for Best Actress, at 7 p.m. July 29 and the 1996 blockbuster “Twister” at 1 p.m. July 30, both in the historic Plaza Theatre.
Hunt’s career started as a child actor. She appeared on shows including TV’s “The Mary Tyler Moore Show,” “The Bionic Woman,” “The Swiss Family Robinson” and others before branching into movies as a teenager. Her early career credits include stints on TV’s “St. Elsewhere” and roles in movies, including “Peggy Sue Got Married” and “Girls Just Want to Have Fun.”
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It was her performance as public relations specialist Jamie Buchman on TV’s “Mad About You” that catapulted her to superstardom in the 1990s. Hunt won four Emmy Awards for Best Lead Actress during the series’ seven-season run on NBC, with a limited-run revival on Spectrum Originals in 2019. She saw box office success, including starring roles in “As Good As It Gets,” “What Women Want,” “Twister,” “Castaway,” “Pay It Forward,” “The Curse of the Jade Scorpion” and “The Sessions,” for which she was nominated for an Oscar.
She wrote and directed the films “Then She Found Me” (with Bette Midler) and “Ride.” She also has directed episodes of numerous television shows, including “Mad About You,” “Life in Pieces” and “Californication.” She currently stars as the mother of an imprisoned son in the Starz series “Blindspotting” and acts on the stage.
Hunt joins Edward James Olmos as this year’s Plaza Classic special guests at the 11-day film festival, which will include screenings of “Casablanca,” “The Silence of the Lambs,” “Peter Pan,” the original theatrical version of “Psycho,” “When Harry Met Sally,” “Kramer vs. Kramer” and many more.
Individual tickets go on sale Friday at the Plaza Theatre Box Office and Ticketmaster.com. Passes are on sale at plazaclassic.com/tickets.
This article originally appeared on El Paso Times: Academy Award-winner Helen Hunt set for Plaza Classic Film Festival
