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Bonnie
Trivia
Was on Wheel of Fortune in 1997 for a mother's special with her Mom, Steve Burton and Nick Van Exel and their mothers. Performed custom voice-over work for the "Rosie" character in the PlayStation game "A Bug's Life" (1998)and Monster's Inc. [source: game credits] Bonnie Hunt and Helen Hunt are of no relation. If one were
to add up the grosses of the 13 movies Bonnie Hunt has appeared
in, you would be talking close to on billion dollars. It's safe
to say that Bonnie's a bit of a lucky charm. In 1997, Entertainment Weekly named Bonnie "the hands-down best (talk show) guest in America." Bonnie is a vegetarian She was the
first woman ever to create, write, produce and star in a television
series.
The Building 1993.
Bob and Alice Productions, Bonnie's production company, is named after her parents. Her mother used to tell her that she was a "Bob and Alice production".
For her first role, Bonnie was an extra doing the foxtrot in the 1986 TV movie Under the Blitmore Clock. The Return To Me DVD features Bonnie and Don Lake her writing partner doing a commentary about the film. Bonnie has a
really good singing voice Bonnie is really good friends with David Letterman and George Clooney Bonnie started her career as an oncology nurse at the Northwestern University Hospital in Chicago She used to hang out in the A/V room in high school and watch movies "I became lost in them and they became my friends." Bonnie was a cheerleader in Grammar and High School. Bonnie has unofficially
written bits of many of her movies, attending writers meetings. Bonnie's mother was a singer Bonnie co-produced four of the songs on the Return to Me soundtrack Bonnie met her husband on a blind date. Set up by her sister in law. He had seen her performing at Second City previous to that. At the commitment to Chicago awards Joyce Sloan of Second City mentioned that Bonnie came back to Second City after her wedding and did a set of comedy on stage IN HER WEDDING GOWN. Bonnie has done
charity work and fundraising (and still
does) for animal rights, supporting shelters for the homeless and
for battered women, as well as cancer research and Gilda's Club,
an information and support group for people with cancer. Bonnie regularly visits the students of her sister Mary’s school (she was there May 11th 2001) where she is a first grade teacher. She’d go there long before she had any tv series’ and she has said that the kids "made me feel so famous."
Bonnie says she grew up in a neighborhood where people helped each other during tough times.
When she heard that a North Side family was raising money to help Ann Palmejar-Vogenthaler recover from a cerebral hemorrhage that had left her in a coma for more than two years, she flew back from LA to help out. Bonnie donated her winnings on the Wheel of Fortune 1997 show to the fund and as of that date she had been in the coma 4 years. Every year they hold a fundraiser.
In November 1996 Disney made a test for an animated feature version of "Into The Woods", the hit musical by Stephen Sondheim.
It was rumoured a few years ago that Bonnie’s directorial debut would be called Convenience.
In 1992 when asked by the Chicago Tribune what her fantasy was, Bonnie replied "I'm directing a movie that my brother Pat Hunt wrote, and my whole family is in it."
Bonnie and John’s wedding song was Soon.
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While
working to get The Building on the air, Bonnie turned down offers
to join the cast of Designing Women, Home Improvement and also three
offers to join Saturday Night Live. She also turned down the Helen Hunt role in Mad About You.