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LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - Marking her first foray into series television, Oscar winner Holly Hunter is in negotiations to star in TNT's drama pilot "Grace."

She would play a jaded Oklahoma City police detective who is visited by an irascible angel and offered an opportunity to redeem her life. The cable network ordered the pilot almost a year ago.

"Grace" comes on the heels of the breakout success of another TNT drama centered on a strong female cop character, "The Closer." The Kyra Sedgwick vehicle has emerged as the most-watched cable series.

Hunter has been nominated for an Academy Award four times, most recently for "thirteen" in 2003, and won for lead actress in 1994 for "The Piano."

On the big screen, she most recently appeared in Rodrigo Garcia's indie "Nine Lives." She last appeared onstage in 2004 in Marina Carr's "By the Bog of Cats" in London.

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