Linda Hunt was the first actress to win an academy award portraying a member of the opposite sex!

Linda Hunt, is an American film, stage and television actress best known for her role as Henrietta Lange in the CBS series NCIS: Los Angeles.
After making her film debut playing Mrs. Oxheart in Popeye (1980), Hunt portrayed Billy Kwan, her breakthrough performance, in The Year of Living Dangerously (1982).
Linda hunt is the first actress to have won an Academy Award portraying a member of the opposite sex for her role as Billy Kwan. Hunt has also had a successful television career.
She played Rose in the television movie Basements (1987) and narrated in the television movie The New Chimpanzees. She is also the narrator in the God of War video game series. She’s defintly living the life in her old years!