'Saving Grace' ends four-season run tonight with back-to-back episodes

BY MEL BRACHT | Published: June 21, 2010

Holly Hunter wraps up her role as Okahoma City police detective Grace Hanadarko in back-to-back episodes tonight of "Saving Grace” on TNT. TNT PHOTO

/> "Now I just want to send Grace out in a great, great way,” she said. "Honor this character, these people and this city.”

For her work as Hanadarko, Hunter, 52, has earned three Screen Actors Guild nominations, two Emmy nominations, a Gracie Allen Award and a Women in Film Lucy Award. She has 46 hours of screen time as Grace.

"I've loved all the things I've gotten to do as Grace that I've never gotten to do before,” Hunter said. "Grace, as a whole, is a character who I adore.

"This has been a real family,” said Hunter, who also was an executive producer. "So it was very hard to say goodbye to some of those folks and to this family of characters.”

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