BONNIE HUNT
Born: September 22, 1961
Place: Chicago, IL
Bonnie Hunt has three older brothers, Patrick, Kevin and Tom and to older sisters, Cathy and Carol, and one younger sister, Mary. In 1982, Bonnie worked as a cancer nurse at Northwestern Memorial Hospital in Chicago. In 1984, she co-founded An Impulse Thing, an improvisational comedy troupe, with Holly Wortell, Andy Miller and John Gripentrog. Hunt also preformed as a member of the Chicago’s world-famous The Second City, joining in 1986.
Hunt teamed with good friend David Letterman in 1993 to produce The Building, a short lived sitcom that was modeled after early-1950s television shows. The show was also filmed live. Mistakes, accidents and forgotten lines were often left in the aired episode. Hunt reportedly, declined the female lead in the series Mad About You, which went to Helen Hunt.
Bonnie and Letterman re-teamed in 1995 with The Bonnie Hunt Show (later retitled Bonnie), which featured many of the same cast member as The Building and the same loose style. The show was praised by critics but soon canceled. Hunt returned to television in 2002 with Life with Bonnie, a show known for clean and offbeat humor. Her role on that show earned her a 2004 Emmy nomination, her first.
She served as screenwriter, director and supporting actress for the 2000 film Return to Me, a romantic comedy starting David Duchovny and Minnie Driver. It was filmed in her Chicago neighborhood and included bit parts for a number of her relatives.
In June 2007, she taped a talk show pilot for Telepictures. The pilot was picked up by NBC Universal for broadcast on its NBC-owned stations as well as for syndication to other broadcast and cable outlets. Her show is again titled The Bonnie Hunt Show. She began her foray into the competitive daytime market in September of 2008.
Bonnie is a long time Chicago Cubs fan, having not missed an Opening Day at Wrigley Field since 1977.
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