Some of the most distinctive screen actors whose moments of Oscar glory have not been matched by their later work — at least not yet.
Adrien Brody was a 29-year-old character actor when he won the best actor Oscar for Roman Polanski’s “The Pianist” in 2003, beating out a crop of celebrated veterans and becoming the youngest man to win the prize in the history of the Academy Awards.
“The Artist,” almost totally silent and filmed in black and white, broke the mold in 2011 when it picked up the award for best picture and delivered a win as best actor for the French star Jean Dujardin, who played the egotistical Georges Valentin. The decision to cast Hunt, a white American woman, would no doubt provoke controversy in today’s cultural environment. But in the early 1980s, Hunt’s performance was considered bold and accomplished, drawing rave reviews. “She enters the role so fully that it never occurs to us that she is not a man,”Hunt, standing 4 feet, 9 inches tall, became a character actress in the 1980s and ’90s, showing up in everything from a heady sci-fi trip to a lowbrow action comedy .
What she has done is work steadily in the more than three decades since: She’s notched long stints on the small screen on “Picket Fences,” “The West Wing” and “The L Word.” More recently, she enjoyed a six-year run on the family drama “Switched at Birth.” All the while, she has continued to inspire those with hearing impairments, a cause that she has said is of great importance to her.
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