Helen Hunt

A precociously talented youngster, "Helen Hunt" was drawing paychecks as a television actress from the age of ten. Before she was 17, she had appeared as a regular on two series, "Swiss Family Robinson" (1975) and The Fitzpatricks (1977). Hunt proved she was more than just a workaday child actor with her starring performance in the fact-based 1981 TV movie "The Miracle of Kathy Miller", in which she played a high school athlete who overcame severe mental and physical damage brought on by a highway accident.

While she had been appearing in films as early as "Rollercoaster" in 1977, Hunt was never groomed as a star player, and it is possible that her resemblance to another child actress, "Jodie Foster", held her back from more important roles.

After taking on her first adult role in the 1982 sitcom "It Takes Two", Hunt's film assignments improved, with sizable roles in "Girls Just Want to Have... Full Biography