- The first actor to have won an Academy Award portraying a member of the opposite sex, she won the Best Actress in a Supporting Role Oscar for her role as Billy Kwan in The Year of Living Dangerously (1982). Note this was not Linda Hunt playing a woman pretending to be a man, like Barbra Streisand did in Yentl (1983) or, in reverse, as Dustin Hoffman did in Tootsie (1982), but Hunt playing a man in a serious drama.
- Her voice work includes narration for the History Channel, as well as National Public Radio.
- Attended the Interlochen Arts Academy. She was a charter student the first year of the Interlochen Arts Academy, which was established in 1962 as a complement to the Interlochen Arts Camp, which had been established in 1928.
- Has twice played male roles that did not feature or reference her actual female status: Billy Kwan in The Year of Living Dangerously (1982) and The Management in Carnivàle (2003) (who, though mostly unseen, is often referred to by other characters as male).
- Has lived with her romantic partner, psychotherapist Karen Klein, since 1987. Hunt's official biography on the CBS website for NCIS: Los Angeles (2009) refers to Klein as Hunt's spouse.
- Ranked #9 on Tropopkin's Top 25 Most Intriguing People [Issue #100]
- (July 2, 2018) She was hospitalized after a serious car wreck in Hollywood. Hunt was driving a black BMW SUV and tried making a left turn. An eyewitness says Hunt struck a sedan, then collided with a Honda SUV. Hunt was visibly shaken, and witnesses escorted her to a lawn chair on the sidewalk.
- Was the 88th actress to receive an Academy Award; she won the Best Supporting Actress Oscar for The Year of Living Dangerously (1982) at The 56th Annual Academy Awards (1984) on April 9, 1984.
- Was nominated for Broadway's 1984 Tony Award as Best Actress (Play) for Arthur Kopit's "End of the World."
- Attended Goodman School of Drama (now The Theatre School at DePaul University) in Chicago.
- She is the daughter of Elsie R. (Doying) and Raymond Davy Hunt. Her mother's family was mostly from Canada, while her father had deeper roots in New England, particularly Massachusetts and Maine.
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