Holly Hunter Interview On 'Saving Grace,' Spirituality, Playing A Cop

Holly Hunter is wrapping up her ninth and final season on TNT's Saving Grace playing a troubled cop. Now she looks back about what it was like to work with real cops on the show. “I took shooting lessons, went to driving lessons, rode around with them,” she told Uinterview in an exclusive interview. “It’s a job that requires things that I only have in my imagination.”

Born in Conyers, Ga., Hunter knew she wanted to do drama early on. She got a degree in drama from Carnegie Mellon University, where she studied theater. She was cast in the Broadway play, Crimes of the Heart and made her debut in the 1981 horror movie, The Burning. One of Holly Hunter’s most popular roles came as a mute pianist who was sold in marriage by her own father and shipped to New Zealand alongside her daughter in the 1993 drama film Piano. Her first television series was TNT’s Saving Grace, which began in 2007.

With Saving Grace now coming to a close after a strong run, Hunter found herself constantly tackling many spiritual topics. “I feel that I’m a spiritual person in that I feel like I'm telling stories in a spiritual exercise,” she told Uinterview. “I think it’s something that we need as a culture and as humans.”