I actually have a life I said I wanted to have. I wanted to tell stories I want and be with my family. I'm whispering it, because I'm a quarter Jewish and afraid it's all going to be taken away.

She appeared as a marijuana-smoking classmate on an episode of The Facts of Life. In 2000 Hunt starred in four films: Dr. Her early roles included an appearance as Murray Slaughter's daughter on The Mary Tyler Moore Show alongside Lindsay Wagner in an episode of The Bionic Woman an appearance in an episode of Ark II called Omega and a regular role in the television series The Swiss Family Robinson.

She starred in the sitcom Mad About You for seven years before being cast in the 1997 romantic comedy film As Good as It Gets for which Helen Hunt won the Academy Award for Best Actress. Helen Elizabeth Hunt (born June 15 1963) is an American actress film director and screenwriter. She made her directorial debut in 2007 with Then She Found Me.