Bonnie Lynne Hunt is an American actress, voice actress, comedian, director, producer, writer, and host.
For Disney, she did voice work in several Pixar films and/or television shows, including Rosie in A Bug's Life, Flint in Monsters, Inc. and Monsters at Work, Sally Carrera in the Cars franchise, Dolly in the Toy Story franchise, and Karen Graves in Monsters University. She also voiced Bonnie Hopps in the 2016 Disney animated feature film Zootopia and the Zootopia+ episode "Hopp on Board", as well as Aunt Tilly in the Disney Jr. series Sofia the First. Additionally, she played Bonnie Malloy in the ABC TV show Life with Bonnie.
Background
Hunt was born in Chicago, Illinois, to Robert Edward Hunt, an electrician, and Alice E. Hunt (née Jatczak). Her father was of Irish and Belgian ancestry and her mother is of Polish descent. She has three older brothers named Patrick, Kevin, and Tom, two older sisters named Cathy and Carol, and a younger sister named Mary. She was educated in Catholic schools, attending St. Ferdinand Grammar School and Notre Dame High School for Girls in Chicago, and worked part-time as a nurse's aide.
In 1982, Hunt worked as an oncology nurse at Northwestern Memorial Hospital in Chicago. In 1984, she co-founded an improvisational comedy troupe called An Impulsive Thing. Hunt also performed as a member of Chicago's world-famous the Second City, joining in 1986. In 1988, while a nurse, Hunt auditioned on her lunch break for the role of waitress Sally Dibbs in Rain Man and won it.
Roles
(A Bug's Life)
(Cars franchise)
(Monsters University)
(Zootopia and Zootopia+)
(Monsters, Inc. and Monsters at Work)
(Toy Story franchise)
(Sofia the First)
Gallery
Trivia
- She shares the same name as her Toy Story character Dolly's owner Bonnie Anderson, as well as her own other role Bonnie Hopps, who is instead from Zootopia.
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