Linda Hunt  Lydia Susanna "Linda" Hunt (born April 2, 1945) is an American 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), "" (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 on the CBS television series "", a role she has played since 2009, for which she has received two Teen Choice Awards. She is also the narrator for the Greek era of the "God of War" video game franchise. Hunt was born on April 2, 1945, in Morristown, New Jersey. Her father, Raymond Davy Hunt (1902–1985), was vice president of Harper Fuel Oil. Her mother, Elsie Doying Hunt (1903 – c. 1994), was a piano teacher who taught at the Westport School of Music, and performed with the Saugatuck Congregational Church Choir in Westport, Connecticut, the town where Hunt would be raised.