Actress Holly Hunter was born in Conyers, Georgia, to Opal Marguerite Catledge , a homemaker, and Charles Edwin Hunter, a part-time sporting goods company representative and farmer with a 250 acre farm.
Her father, Emil Erich Zellweger, is a Swiss-born engineer.
Her mother, Barbara Ward Morris , and stepfather, both vaudeville performers, discovered her freakish but undeniably lovely four-octave singing voice and immediately got her a singing career.
She has focused on directing in the 2010s, directing the films The Beaver 2011 and Money Monster 2016 , as well as episodes for Netflix television series Orange is the New Black and House of Cards.
Her mother, Kathleen Alexandrina Eva Matilda Rogers , was from a working-class English family, and her father, Vasiliy Petrovich Mironov, was a Russian-born civil servant, from Kuryanovo, whose own father was a diplomat.
In the late 1960s and early 1970s, she worked in several primetime television series and starred in children's films.