Editing Helen Hunt (section)

== Early life ==
Helen Hunt was born in [[Culver City, California]]. Her mother, Jane Elizabeth (née Novis), worked as a photographer, and her father, [[Gordon Hunt (director)|Gordon Hunt]], was a film, voice and stage director and acting coach.<ref name="tcm">{{tcmdb name|id=90846|name=Helen Hunt}}</ref> Her uncle, [[Peter H. Hunt]], was also a director. Her maternal grandmother, Dorothy (née Anderson) Fries, was a voice coach.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1991-09-21-ca-2224-story.html|title=Helen Hunt Takes a Leap of Faith, Lands in 'Pamela Smart'|work=Los Angeles Times|date=September 21, 1991 |access-date=September 28, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130225181106/http://articles.latimes.com/1991-09-21/entertainment/ca-2224_1_helen-hunt|archive-date=February 25, 2013|url-status=live}}</ref> Hunt's paternal grandmother was from a [[History of the Jews in Germany|German-Jewish]] family, while Hunt's other grandparents were of [[English people|English]] descent (her maternal grandfather was born in [[England]]), with a [[Methodist]] religious background.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~battle/celeb/hunt.htm|title=Helen Hunt ancestry|access-date=October 30, 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110810201658/http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~battle/celeb/hunt.htm|archive-date=August 10, 2011|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref name="ref156">{{cite news|last=Robinson|first=George|title=Then She Found Me'|publisher=[[The New York Jewish Week]]|date=February 13, 2008|url=http://www.thejewishweek.com/viewArticle/c234_a4474/Special_Sections/Arts_Preview.html|access-date=April 24, 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090115033820/http://www.thejewishweek.com/viewArticle/c234_a4474/Special_Sections/Arts_Preview.html |archive-date=January 15, 2009}}</ref><ref>Nick Johnstone, [http://www.thejc.com/arts/arts-interviews/how-helen-hunt-did-god "How Helen Hunt did God"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160817120920/http://www.thejc.com/arts/arts-interviews/how-helen-hunt-did-god |date=August 17, 2016 }}, ''[[The Jewish Chronicle]]'', August 28, 2008.</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://snltranscripts.jt.org/93/93pcoffeetalk.phtml|title=Coffee Talk|date=October 8, 2018|access-date=January 27, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190717021843/https://snltranscripts.jt.org/93/93pcoffeetalk.phtml|archive-date=July 17, 2019|url-status=live}}</ref> 

When she was three, Hunt's family moved to [[New York City]], where her father directed theatre and Hunt attended plays as a child several times a week.<ref name = tca>Stated on ''[[Inside the Actors Studio]]'', 2001</ref> Hunt graduated from [[Providence High School (Burbank, California)|Providence High School]] in [[Burbank, California]].<ref>{{cite news |title=HELEN HUNT GOING STRONG |url=https://www.mcall.com/1993/01/03/helen-hunt-going-strong/ |work=The Morning Call |date=3 January 1993}}</ref> She also studied ballet, and briefly attended the [[University of California at Los Angeles|University of California, Los Angeles]].<ref name=tca/><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://movies.yahoo.com/movie/contributor/1800020347/bio|title=Helen Hunt Biography – Yahoo! Movies<!-- Bot generated title -->|access-date=January 14, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120114181125/http://movies.yahoo.com/movie/contributor/1800020347/bio|archive-date=January 14, 2012|url-status=live}}</ref>