American actress Linda Hunt was BOTD in 1945. Born in Morristown, New Jersey to a wealthy middle-class family, she was raised in Connecticut, and studied drama at the Art Institute of Chicago. As a teenager she was diagnosed with dwarfism, standing 4 feet 9 inches (145 cms) tall. She made her professional stage debut in the 1975 Broadway revival of Eugene O’Neill’s Ah, Wilderness! and had success in Caryl Churchill‘s Top Girls. She made her screen debut in Robert Altman’s disastrous 1980 film Popeye, before achieving wider success in man-drag (and yellow-face) as Billy Kwan in The Year of Living Dangerously, winning an Oscar for the role. Her subsequent film career has been sparse, with appearances in She-Devil, Kindergarten Cop, If Looks Could Kill and David Lynch’s Dune, and recurring roles in 1990s TV series The Practice and NCIS: Los Angeles. Hunt is married to her long-term partner Karen Kline.