Category Archives: Henrietta “Hetty” Lange

The Cult of Linda Hunt

At 66 and four-feet-nine, Linda Hunt is an unlikely action heroine. But as the enigmatic Hetty Lange on “NCIS:LA,” Oscar winner Hunt has become a Teen Choice Award recipient and the show’s breakout character.

Linda Hunt is armed with iced tea. It’s a scorching September day on the set of CBS’ popular action series, NCIS: Los Angeles, in which Hunt, 66, plays Operations Manager Henrietta “Hetty” Lange, a tantalizing Rubik’s Cube of a character whose inscrutability is both one of the show’s best weapons and Hetty’s as well. Prone to keeping secrets, Hunt’s Hetty is a polyglot, Olympic medalist (for the small bore rifle), former Hollywood costume designer, mountain climber, and pilot. She’s also deadly, as proven by a recent episode in which she executed several armed men without even leaving her chair, sliding a gun from a hidden compartment in her sleeve and killing the Romanian mobsters around her.

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Linda Hunt: A 4-foot-9 force of nature on ‘NCIS: LA’

In the grayness of the NCIS: Los Angeles armory — all handguns, knives and rifles — Hetty Lange and Agent G. Callen square off, armed only with their wits. There’s little action but lots of drama. Hetty’s clandestine past is slowly being exposed.

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NCIS: Los Angeles actress Linda Hunt interview


Linda Hunt, Henrietta Lang on NCIS: Los Angeles, is cool with rapper on NCIS: Los Angeles.


As to what she’s learning from her younger co-stars, Hunt says, “Oh, wow, that’s a very good question. I don’t know if I can answer it. If anything, I would say that, from both Chris and Todd, because they have so much to do on a daily, weekly basis, I am learning to just let it go a little bit, because they have to.”

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