Helen Hunt

The week in theatre: John Gabriel Borkman; Eureka Day – review

Simon Russell Beale is doubly commanding as Ibsen’s charismatic banker in a problem-raising revival, while a new anti-vax satire needs more than a shot of Helen Hunt’s star power

Susannah Clapp

02, Oct, 2022 @9:30 AM

Eureka Day review – Helen Hunt is an anti-vaxxer on the attack in anti-woke satire

What begins as a broad takedown of the liberal left morphs into an engrossing and textured debate on social justice, vaccination and the pull of conspiracy theory

Arifa Akbar

25, Sep, 2022 @12:44 PM

Helen Hunt: ‘There were a couple of years I was spooked – I just became very boring’

When an Oscar win brought the paparazzi to her door, the actor figured that endless pictures of her with a yoga mat would be of no interest to them. Now she’s out of Hollywood’s glare, and about to appear on the London stage

Terri White

01, Sep, 2022 @1:00 PM

Helen Hunt to star in satire at the Old Vic about ‘a highly contagious virus’

Jonathan Spector’s 2018 play Eureka Day, about the social disarray after an outbreak of mumps, will receive its European premiere in September

Chris Wiegand

04, Jul, 2022 @9:00 AM

World on Fire review – ordinary lives caught up in extraordinary times

Peter Bowker’s second world war drama is a beautifully turned ensemble piece starring Lesley Manville and Sean Bean ... and far from standard wartime fare

Lucy Mangan

29, Sep, 2019 @9:00 PM

Helen Hunt: ‘An Oscar's not a big game-changer. It's not like your worries are over’

The actor and director talks about the perils of fame, sexual violence in the industry and returning to the screen in the Mad About You reboot and the new BBC drama World on Fire

Martha Hayes

02, Sep, 2019 @5:00 AM

How a baby’s arrival made Mad About You as tedious as parenthood

As another pointless reboot surfaces, we examine the marriage sitcom in its tiresome entirety

Diane Shipley

19, Aug, 2019 @12:00 PM

I Love You, Daddy review – Louis CK's brazen comedy is a screwball success

The comedian writes, directs and stars in a black and white homage to Woody Allen which tackles button-pushing issues with daring panache

Peter Bradshaw

10, Sep, 2017 @1:33 AM

Clive James: ‘Helen Hunt! Holy smoke, what an artist!’

I long for the days when Jack Nicholson could deliver a speech without flashing his ivory like a leopard set to charge

Clive James

01, Apr, 2017 @7:00 AM

When the laughter stops: how sitcom stars have fared in Hollywood

For every Chris Pratt, Woody Harrelson and now Amy Poehler, there is a Sofia Vergara or Jennifer Aniston. We look at the former small-screen stars who made the biggest splash in Hollywood

Stephen Puddicombe

13, Jul, 2015 @11:49 AM