Bonnie Hunt American actress Bonnie Lynn Hunt has a trademark quick-witted sense of humor, which she used to its fullest potential in the movies Cheaper by the Dozen in 2003 and Cheaper by the Dozen 2 in 2005. In these movies she co-starred with Steve Martin as mom Kate Baker. She also narrated the voice of Porsche Sally Carrera in the 2006 animation Cars. Hunt was born on September 22, 1961, in Chicago, Illinois , to Irish American Catholic parents, Bob and Alice Hunt. She has three holder brothers: Kevin, Patrick, and Tom; two older sisters, Carol and Kathy; and one younger sister, Mary. In 1982 Hunt worked as a nurse in the cancer ward at Northwestern Memorial Hospital in Chicago. Two years later she co-founded a three-woman improvisational comedy troupe called An Impulse Thing, with Holly Wortell and Joan Cusack. In 1986 she joined the long-running improvisational comedy troupe, The Second City.
She was offered a chance to become a cast member of Saturday Night Live several times, but turned down the opportunity because the producers frowned on her preferred improvisational style. In 1992 she turned down a role on the CBS sitcom Designing Women to co-star in the comedy Davis Rules with Jonathan Winters and Audrey Meadows. In 1993 Hunt teamed up with David Letterman to produce the short-lived sitcom, The Building, which was filmed live. Hunt and Letterman re-teamed in 1995 with The Bonnie Hunt Show, which featured the same cast members as The Building. The show was soon cancelled even though it received positive reviews from critics. In 1998 she performed a custom voice-over for the character of Rosie in the Sony Playstation game A Bug’s Life. In 2002 Hunt starred in the ABC television comedy Life With Bonnie, and earned her first Emmy nomination in 2004 for her role on the show. The show was cancelled in its second season. In 2005 ABC offered Hunt another role in the pilot sitcom Let Go , also known as Crimes and Dating, but the show was not picked up for ABC’s fall 2006 schedule.
Hunt has also served as the screenwriter, director, and supporting actress for the 2000 romantic comedy Return to Me, starring David Duchovny and Minnie Driver. She is currently working on writing the script to the sequel of the 1993 box office hit Mrs. Doubtfire, starring Robin Williams. Hunt has made it known that she has never done, and never will do, a nude scene or pose nude in her career. She is an avid Cubs fan and has been to every Cubs opener at Wrigley Field since 1977. She married investment banker John Murphy on July 8, 1988, but told Letterman at her June 6, 2006 appearance on his show that she is single again. YUDDY | 
