One-time movie icon Linda Hunt

New Jersey-born Linda Hunt had her first role in Popeye (1980), but her great success was in the 1982 movie The Year of Living Dangerously.

Hunt's remarkable portrayal of Billy Kwan, a male Chinese-Australian photographer, won her the 1983 Oscar for Best Supporting Actress. She became the first person ever to win this award for playing someone of the opposite gender.

Hunt played in other films thereafter, and on such TV shows as The Practice and Without a race, but to date, her role as Billy Kwan remains her only huge success.