Linda Hunt - wikipedia Linda Hunt For the medical professor, see Linda M. Hunt. Linda Hunt Linda Hunt in September 2015 Lydia Susanna Hunter ( 1945 - 04 - 02 ) April 2, 1945 ( age 72 ) Morristown, New Jersey, U.S. Residence Hollywood, California, U.S. Alma mater Interlochen Center for the Arts Goodman School of Drama Occupation Actress Years active 1976 -- present Height 1.45 m ( 4 ' 9 '' ft ) Spouse ( s ) Karen Klein ( m. 2008 ) Parent ( s ) Raymond Hunter Elsie Hunter ( née Doying ) Awards Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress ( 1983 ) Lydia Susanna Hunter ( born April 2, 1945 ), better known by her stage name Linda Hunt, is an American film, stage, and television actress. After making her film debut playing Mrs. Oxheart in Popeye ( 1980 ), Hunt 's breakthrough came playing the male character Billy Kwan in The Year of Living Dangerously ( 1982 ), for which she won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress, becoming the first person to win an Oscar portraying a character of the opposite sex. She has had great success in films such as The Bostonians ( 1984 ), Dune ( 1984 ), Silverado ( 1985 ), Eleni ( 1985 ), Waiting for the Moon ( 1987 ), She - Devil ( 1989 ), Kindergarten Cop ( 1990 ), If Looks Could Kill ( 1991 ), Rain Without Thunder ( 1992 ), Twenty Bucks ( 1993 ), Younger and Younger ( 1993 ), Prêt - à - Porter ( 1994 ), Pocahontas ( 1995 ), The Relic ( 1997 ), Pocahontas II : Journey to a New World ( 1998 ), Dragonfly ( 2002 ), Yours Mine and Ours ( 2005 ), and Stranger Than Fiction ( 2006 ). Hunt has also had a successful television career. She played Rose in the television movie Basements ( 1987 ) and narrated in the television movie The New Chimpanzees. She guest - starred on Hallmark Hall of Fame in both 1978 and 1987, Space Rangers in 1993, Carnivale in both 2003 and 2005, Without a Trace in 2008, The Unit in 2008, and Nip Tuck in 2009. From 1997 to 2002, Hunt played the recurring role of Judge Zoey Hiller on The Practice. She currently portrays Henrietta `` Hetty '' Lange on the CBS television series NCIS : Los Angeles, a role she has held since the 2009 debut, for which she has received two Teen Choice Awards. She is also the narrator in the God of War video game franchise. Contents 1 Early life 2 Career 2.1 Film 2.2 Theatre 2.3 Television 2.4 Voice work 3 Personal life 4 Filmography 4.1 Video games 4.2 Television credits 4.3 Theatre 5 References 6 External links Early life Hunt was born on April 2, 1945 in Morristown, New Jersey to Raymond Davy Hunter ( d. 1985 ), the vice president of Harper Fuel Oil, and Elsie Doying Hunter ( d. ~ 1994 ), a piano teacher who taught at the Westport School of Music and performed with the Saugatuck Congregational Church Choir in Westport, Connecticut, where Hunt was raised. She has one sibling, an older sister named Marcia ( b. 1940 ). Hunt attended the Interlochen Arts Academy and the Goodman School of Drama in Chicago, Illinois, which now part of DePaul University. Career Film Hunt 's film debut in 1980 was in Robert Altman 's musical comedy Popeye. Two years later, she co-starred as Billy Kwan in The Year of Living Dangerously, Peter Weir 's film adaptation of the novel of the same name. For her role as the male Chinese - Australian photographer Billy Kwan, Hunt won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress in 1983, becoming the first person to win an Oscar for playing a character of the opposite sex. In addition, the character was Asian and had the condition of dwarfism. In her screen test, Hunt wore a hairpiece, a fake moustache, and `` paste - on pieces above her eyes to ( appear ) Oriental ''. To accomplish the role during production, Hunt shortened `` her hair and dye ( d ) it black (, ) wore padding around her waist, shaved her eyebrows, and carried something in her shirt pocket. '' In her 1986 interview with the Bomb magazine, Hunt remarked that Billy Kwan `` is supra - personal ( with ) layers of sexual ambiguity (. ) '' Hunt also played a nurse in She - Devil ( 1989 ) and the austere school principal opposite Arnold Schwarzenegger in Kindergarten Cop in 1990. Hunt played the assassin Ilsa Grunt in If Looks Could Kill ( 1991 ) opposite Richard Grieco and Roger Rees. Theatre Hunt was a well - known stage actress before she entered film and television. She made her Broadway debut in a 1975 production of Ah, Wilderness. She was nominated for the Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play for her work in the 1984 play End of the World. She also received two ensemble Obie Awards for her work Off - Broadway in Top Girls and A Metamorphosis in Miniature. She created the role of Aunt Dan in Wallace Shawn 's play Aunt Dan and Lemon. She was a member of the Long Wharf Theatre Company in Connecticut. There she played the Player Queen in a production of Hamlet, among other roles. She portrayed Sister Aloysius in the Pasadena Playhouse production of John Patrick Shanley 's play Doubt. She was praised for her performance as the title character in Bertolt Brecht 's Mother Courage and Her Children. Hunt also appeared as Pope Joan in Caryl Churchill 's Top Girls when London 's Royal Court Theatre 's production was staged at the Public Theater in New York. In an interview with writer Craig Gholson and actor Vincent Caristi, Hunt discussed her experience acting in theatre, `` Acting onstage is like an explosion each night. And what comes in at you all the time as you are trying to... create something which is a tremendous act of organization and concentration. ''. Television Her television appearances include recurring roles as Judge Zoey Hiller on David E. Kelley 's series The Practice and as Dr. Claire Bryson on Without a Trace. She has narrated several installments of The American Experience on PBS. Since 2009, she has co-starred as Operations Manager Henrietta `` Hetty '' Lange, on the CBS show NCIS : Los Angeles with Chris O'Donnell, LL Cool J, Daniela Ruah, Eric Christian Olsen, and Barrett Foa. Voice work Hunt has a rich, resonant voice, which she has used in numerous documentaries, cartoons, and commercials. She is the on - air host for City Arts & Lectures, a radio program recorded by KQED public radio at the Nourse Theater in San Francisco, a program that presents interviews with celebrated writers, artists, and thinkers addressing contemporary ideas and values, often discussing the creative process. Hunt was chosen by Walt Disney Feature Animation to lend her enigmatic speaking and singing voice to Grandmother Willow in the animated musical film Pocahontas and its direct - to - video sequel Pocahontas II : Journey to a New World. Her voice work includes also the character of Management in Carnivàle, and the protogenoi Gaia, who serves as the narrator in the God of War series of video games. She narrated the introductory film at the International Spy Museum in Washington, D.C., and has also been heard in various commercials of the late 1990s for Tylenol. Hunt narrated the PBS Nature special entitled Christmas in Yellowstone. She also narrated the National Geographic documentary The Great Indian Railway. Personal life Hunt is a lesbian, and has been with psychotherapist Karen Klein since 1978. The two were married in 2008. They currently reside in a historic neighborhood in Hollywood, California with their pet dogs, in an early 20th century American Craftsman style home. As a teenager, Hunt was diagnosed as having hypopituitary dwarfism. A person of short stature, Hunt stands at just 1.45 meters, or 4 ' 9 '' feet, tall. Hunt is an ambassador for the Best Friends Animal Society. Filmography Year Film Role Notes 1980 Popeye Mrs. Holly Oxheart 1982 The Year of Living Dangerously Billy Kwan Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress Australian Film Institute Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role Boston Society of Film Critics Award for Best Supporting Actress Kansas City Film Critics Circle Award for Best Supporting Actress ( tie with Mia Farrow for Zelig ) Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award for Best Supporting Actress National Board of Review Award for Best Supporting Actress New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Supporting Actress Nominated -- Australian Film Institute Jury Prize ( shared with Peter Weir ) Nominated -- Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress -- Motion Picture Nominated -- National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Supporting Actress 1984 Dune Shadout Mapes The Bostonians Dr. Charlotte Prance 1985 Eleni Katina Silverado Stella Waiting for the Moon Alice B. Toklas She - Devil Hooper Kindergarten Cop Miss Ingrid Schlowski Carmilla Narrator 1991 If Looks Could Kill Ilsa Grunt Rain Without Thunder Atwood Society Director 1993 Younger and Younger Frances Twenty Bucks Angeline Prêt - à - Porter Regina Krumm National Board of Review Award for Best Acting Ensemble 1995 Pocahontas Grandmother Willow Voice The Relic Dr. Ann Cuthbert Eat Your Heart Out Kathryn 1998 Pocahontas II : Journey to a New World Grandmother Willow Voice 2002 Dragonfly Sister Madeline 2005 Auschwitz : The Nazis and the ' Final Solution ' Narrator Voice Yours, Mine and Ours Mrs. Edna Munion The Great Transatlantic Cable Narrator 2006 Stranger Than Fiction Dr. Jill Mittag - Leffler 2007 The Singing Revolution Narrator Video games God of War as Narrator God of War II as Gaia / Narrator God of War : Chains of Olympus as Narrator God of War III as Pre-title screen credits Narrator God of War : Ghost of Sparta as Narrator God of War : Ascension as Narrator Television credits This section is incomplete. ( June 2014 ) Year Title Role Notes 1978 Fame Mona Basements Rose Hudd Segment : `` The Room '' -- director : Robert Altman The Room Upstairs Mrs. Felicia Sanders TV movie 1993 Space Rangers Commander Chenault 1997 -- 2002 The Practice Judge Zoey Hiller 24 episodes 1998 -- 2006 The American Experience Narrator 2003 -- 2005 Carnivàle Management -- voice 9 episodes 2006 Nature Narrator Episode : `` Christmas in Yellowstone '' 2007 The Unit Dr. Eudora Hobbs 2 episodes 2008 Without a Trace Dr. Claire Bryson 3 episodes 2009 -- present NCIS : Los Angeles Henrietta `` Hetty '' Lange Main character 2011, 2012 Teen Choice Awards Herself Teen Choice Award for Choice TV Actress Action 2014 Scorpion Henrietta `` Hetty '' Lange Episode : `` True Colors '' Theatre Year Title Role Notes 1972 Hamlet Player Off - Broadway Ah, Wilderness ! Norah Broadway Little Victories N / A Off - Broadway Top Girls Pope Joan / Louise 1984 End of the World Audrey Wood Broadway 1985 Aunt Dan and Lemon Aunt Dan Off - Broadway References Jump up ^ `` Linda Hunt ''. Hollywood.com. Archived from the original on April 20, 2007. ^ Jump up to : `` Linda Hunt ''. Fatctoidz. Retrieved November 2, 2011. Jump up ^ `` Linda Hunt Biography ''. filmreference.com. Retrieved December 12, 2010. Jump up ^ `` Family for Linda Hunt ''. Turner Classic Movies. Retrieved December 18, 2017. Jump up ^ Hanson, Byron. `` From the Archives with Byron Hanson : February 2010 ''. Interlochen Center for the Arts. Retrieved July 3, 2011. Jump up ^ Lacob, Jace ( September 26, 2011 ). `` The Cult of Linda Hunt ''. The Daily Beast. Retrieved November 3, 2011. Jump up ^ `` The Theatre School : History ''. DePaul University. Archived from the original on July 19, 2011. Retrieved July 3, 2011. Jump up ^ `` Oscar trivia ''. Daily Mail. Retrieved May 26, 2011. Jump up ^ Chung, Philip W ( November 28, 2008 ). `` The 25 Most Infamous Yellow Face Film Performances ''. AsianWeek. Archived from the original on March 15, 2011. Retrieved December 12, 2010. Jump up ^ Unger, Bertil ( January 15, 1986 ). `` Size Is Small Problem for Hunt ''. New Straits Times. ^ Jump up to : Hunt, Linda ( Summer 1986 ). `` BOMB Magazine -- Linda Hunt by Craig Gholson ''. Bomb ( Interview ). Interview with Vincent Caristi and Craig Gholson. Archived from the original on October 17, 2013. Jump up ^ End of the World accessed 11 / 23 / 2016 Jump up ^ Linda Hunt Awards Internet Broadway Database accessed 11 / 23 / 2016 Jump up ^ Rich, Frank ( January 29, 1984 ). `` Theater : Mother Courage in Boston ''. The New York Times. Retrieved December 12, 2010. Jump up ^ Nourse Theater Jump up ^ `` Full Documentary Films Yellowstone National Park National Geographic Documentary ''. YouTube. 6 May 2016. Retrieved 5 October 2016. Jump up ^ Ocamb, Karen ( August 10, 2008 ). `` WeHo Marriages Go On ''. The BILERICO Project. Retrieved October 13, 2011. Jump up ^ Keveney, Bill ( 15 November 2010 ). `` Linda Hunt : A 4 - foot - 9 force of nature on ' NCIS : LA ' ''. USA Today. Retrieved 17 June 2013. Jump up ^ Buchalter, Gail. `` There are Always Answers '' Parade Magazine, 1991 https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1243&dat=19910502&id=UKpFAAAAIBAJ&sjid=OocDAAAAIBAJ&pg=3689,6938803 Jump up ^ `` Acclaimed Ambassadors -- Linda Hunt ''. Best Friends Animal Society. Retrieved November 2, 2011. 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