Academy-Award Winning Actress Hurt In Hollywood Crash

HOLLYWOOD, CA — Academy Award winning actress Linda Hunt is recovering today after she was injured in a car accident in Hollywood.

Hunt, who plays Henrietta Lange on "NCIS: Los Angeles," was hurt Monday when she made a left turn, and the black BMW SUV she was driving collided with a car and another SUV, according to the celebrity news website TMZ.com. The celebrity news website reported the other drivers suffered minor injuries.

"An eyewitness tells us Hunt struck a sedan and then collided with a Honda SUV," TMZ reported. "Hunt was visibly shaken, and witnesses escorted her to a lawn chair on the sidewalk. We're told paramedics evaluated Linda on the chair and then determined she needed to be taken to the hospital."

The 73-year-old Hunt, who's from Morristown, New Jersey, has appeared in more than 200 "NCIS" episodes as beginning with the series premiere in 2009. Hunt won an Oscar for Best Supporting Actress in 1983 for her performance as Billy Kwan in "The Year of Living Dangerously." She was the first person to win an Oscar for a role playing the opposite sex. The character actress has had roles in everything from She-Devil, Kindergarten Cop, Stranger Than Fiction and Solo: A Star Wars Story.

City News Service and Patch Staffer Paige Austin contributed to this report. Photo: By: Kathy Hutchins via Shutterstock