Standout Performances By Female Actors in a Supporting Role

5. Helen Hunt, “The Sessions”

Hunt has never been better playing soccer mom Cheryl Cohen Greene, the sex therapist contacted by Mark O’Brien, who seeks to lose his virginity. Nor has Hunt ever been more exposed onscreen, literally or figuratively, as she bares all. Though she begins as clinical and somewhat cold, Cohen-Greene softens with O’Brien, and Hunt shows the vulnerability as her façade begins to crack. When they finally part ways, her emotional breakdown in her car is a wonder to behold.