Linda Hunt

Born in Morristown, N.J., on April 2, 1945, Linda Hunt is the only actor to have won an Oscar for portraying a member of the opposite sex: She received the Best Actress in a Supporting Role Award for her performance as wartime photographer Billy Kwan in 1982's The Year of Living Dangerously.

Since then, Hunt has given strong performances as liberated doctor Mary Prance in the Merchant Ivory film The Bostonians (1984), as Stella the saloon-keeper in Lawrence Kasdan's Western Silverado (1985) and as Alice B. Toklas in Waiting for the Moon (1987).

Other notable films include Dune (1984), Eleni (1985), She-Devil (1989), Kindergarten Cop (1990) and Ready to Wear (1994). Hunt has also done many commercial and documentary voice-overs, in addition to voicing characters for animated movies, including Pocahontas and Pocahontas II.

NCIS: Los Angeles

2009 TV-14

This gritty "NCIS" spinoff moves the action from Washington, D.C., to the sun-soaked West Coast, where undercover agents G. Callen (Chris O'Donnell) and Sam Hanna (LL Cool J) pool their talents to guard U.S. interests for NCIS's Los Angeles Office of Special Projects Division. Rounding out the team are operations manager Hetty Lange (Linda Hunt), psychologist Nate "Doc" Getz (Peter Cambor) and forensic investigator Kensi Blye (Daniela Ruah).