Helen Hunt’s Miracle Movie

The Mad About You, As Good as It Gets and Cast Away star, 54, has returned to the big screen, playing coach Kathy Bresnahan in the just-released

Miracle Season. It’s the inspirational true story of an Iowa high school girls’ volleyball team, which after the tragic death of its star player rallies in hopes of winning a championship. Here are five facts about the Oscar- and Emmy-winning California native.

Hunt and Paul Reiser each made $1 million per episode—an unheard-of amount—for Mad About

You in the 1998-99 season. She received her Oscarwinning role in As Good as It

Gets after Holly Hunter turned it down.

In 1998, Hunt became the second female performer ever to win an Oscar, an Emmy and a Golden Globe in the same year; the first was Liza Minnelli (1973).

Her exercise routine includes surfing and paddleboarding.

Hawaii is her favorite getaway destination. “It’s where I feel right,” she says.