Linda Hunt won the Oscar for Best Supporting Actress for the 1983 film THE YEAR OF LIVING DANGEROUSLY. It was the first time an actor won an Oscar for portraying a character of the opposite sex.
The NCIS: Los Angeles star remains the only female Oscar recipient who won for playing a man. Not a woman dressed as a man, or a woman who wants to be a man—just a man who befriends (or does he?) Mel Gibson, in The Year of Living Dangerously.
What a bold yet strangely sensible turn of casting by Peter Weir: hiring a woman to play a man simply because she was the best fit for the part, writes Luke Buckmaster
Linda Hunt won the Oscar for Best Supporting Actress for the 1983 film THE YEAR OF LIVING DANGEROUSLY. It was the first time an actor won an Oscar for portraying a character of the opposite sex.
The NCIS: Los Angeles star remains the only female Oscar recipient who won for playing a man. Not a woman dressed as a man, or a woman who wants to be a man—just a man who befriends (or does he?) Mel Gibson, in The Year of Living Dangerously.
What a bold yet strangely sensible turn of casting by Peter Weir: hiring a woman to play a man simply because she was the best fit for the part, writes Luke Buckmaster
