Diminutive character actress Linda Hunt scored an Academy Award in only her second film, as doomed Chinese-Australian photojournalist, Billy Kwan, in Peter Weir’s “The Year of Living Dangerously” (1982). Hunt’s win for Best Supporting Actress marked the first time ever in Oscar history that an actor won an award for playing a character of the opposite sex. Distinguished by her tiny 4-foot 9-inch stature and her deep resonant voice, Hunt was a well-respected stage actress prior to stepping before the cameras.Born on April 2, 1945, in Morristown, NJ, Hunt moved to Westport, CT with her family
