“I was very down as a teenager, very upset because I had gotten hurt in a car accident. But my dad was a source of strength. He used to say, 'It's the character with strength that God gives the most challenges to.' I've thought about that so many times in my life when things didn't go right.”

American actress and comedian

Bonnie Hunt is an American actress and comedian who began her screen career in the 1980s. She was born in 1961 and is known for supporting roles in films such as Rain Man, Beethoven, Beethoven's 2nd, Jumanji, Jerry Maguire, and The Green Mile. She became widely recognized through those character parts, which brought her into a run of prominent studio films across the 1990s. In 2000, she made her directorial debut with the romantic drama Return to Me, in which she also appeared.